Europe

The spire of the gothic cathedral of the French city of Rouen in Normandy caught fire on Thursday during renovation works, television images showed. The cathedral, one of France’s ...

French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen on Wednesday drew parallels between a hard-left politician’s call for a march towards the prime minister’s office and the assault on ...

European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen discussed the philosophy underpinning the European Union’s strategy for international development, known as the Global Gateway, during an interview with the Cyprus ...

The biggest reservoir on the Greek island of Naxos has dried up, useful only to the turtles that cruise its muddy shallows. Downstream, sea water has seeped into empty irrigation ...

The towering firebrand of France’s hard-left, Melenchon’s France Unbowed (LFI) party won the most seats of the leftist alliance that scored a shock victory over the far right ...

France faced a hung parliament and difficult negotiations starting Monday to form a government, after a surprise left-wing surge blocked Marine Le Pen’s quest to bring the far right ...

French President Emmanuel Macron asked his prime minister on Monday to stay on for now, pending what will be difficult negotiations to form a government after a surprise left-wing surge ...

France was on course for a hung parliament in Sunday’s election, with a leftist alliance unexpectedly taking the top spot ahead of the far right, in a major upset ...

French voters turned out in large numbers for the second round of a parliamentary election on Sunday that could see the far-right National Rally (RN) emerge as the strongest force, ...

France voted on Sunday in a parliamentary run-off election with the far-right National Rally (RN) bidding for power but likely to fall short of a majority, raising the spectre of ...

Jordan Bardella has helped steer France’s far-right National Rally (RN) toward its first real chance of power, the rapidly emerging fresh face of a party that has sought to ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban held talks on a potential Ukrainian peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, angering some European Union leaders who warned against appeasing Moscow ...

 More migrants and refugees are embarking on dangerous journeys across Africa towards the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea where they face growing risk of abuse such as kidnapping and ...

Eruptions at Italy’s Mount Etna and the smaller Stromboli volcano spewed hot ash and lava, raising alert levels on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and forcing a temporary shutdown ...

France’s far-right National Rally (RN) party looked set to fall short of an absolute majority in parliamentary elections, recent polls showed on the last day of campaigning on Friday, ...

For more than four months, US envoys delivered increasingly shrill warnings to Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International (RBIV.VI) to scrap a deal they said had links to one of ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday, Radio Free Europe and the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Russian news ...

Greece’s anti-terrorism police have arrested seven people over arson attacks against an Israeli-owned hotel and a synagogue in central Athens this year, police said in a statement on Thursday. ...

German authorities have found photos related to the private life of seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher’s family as part of investigations into attempted blackmail, prosecutors in the ...

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, said he believed a cross-party bid to deprive Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally of a majority ...

Heavy lightning triggered two fires on the Greek island of Thassos on Wednesday, the fire brigade said, a day after firefighting forces tamed wildfires fanned by unusually strong winds on ...

After years of informal work as a farm labourer, Federico Olivieri, 29, could not believe it when a huge building site appeared next to his home in Sicily with training on ...

France’s political parties sought to build a united front aimed at blocking the path to government of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) on Monday, after it ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the country faced a dangerous summer for wildfires on Monday, with a prolonged drought and unusually strong winds contributing to tinderbox conditions. Wildfires are ...