Europe

Dutch police on Monday said more than 200 people had been arrested on New Year’s Eve during riots throughout the country, in which dozens of police officers were injured. Police ...

Flooding in railway tunnels in southeastern England forced the cancellation of all trains linking London with the European mainland on Saturday, international rail operator Eurostar said, disrupting New Year holiday ...

A Russian missile appears likely to have entered the airspace of NATO-member Poland on Friday, a Polish general said, after an unidentified aerial object was spotted in the early morning ...

Ukraine and Hungary are preparing a meeting of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the near future, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff said on Thursday, ...

Gaston Glock, the reclusive engineer and tycoon who developed one of the world’s best-selling handguns, died on Wednesday aged 94, Austrian news agency APA said. The Austrian won loyal followings ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and House Speaker Annita Demetriou have paid tributes at the passing of former President of the European Commission Jacques Delors, who died on Wednesday at the age ...

A man may regain the use of his hand, left paralysed by a severe road accident, thanks to a pioneering nerve transfer operation from his partly amputated leg, doctors in ...

Former European Commission President Jacques Delors, a founding father of the European Union’s historic single currency project, died on Wednesday at the age of 98. Delors, an ardent advocate of ...

Veteran German politician Wolfgang Schaeuble, who served as a member of the Bundestag parliament for over half a century, has died aged 81, German media reported on Wednesday. Schaeuble, who spent ...

Eight policemen were injured and 38 people detained during and after an opposition protest over election results, Serbia’s police said on Monday. Thousands gathered in the centre of Belgrade on ...

Moldova’s pro-European President Maia Sandu said on Sunday she intends to run for a second presidential term in late 2024 to bring the issue of the country’s European integration ...

A church nativity scene which features two mothers of the Baby Jesus, instead of the conventional Mary and Joseph figurines, has sparked anger among conservative Catholics and politicians in Italy. ...

zechs mourned the victims of the country’s worst mass shooting as police tightened security around schools and other public buildings across the country on Friday after a student gunman ...

A woman was killed and two people were injured by a large Christmas tree that fell over during stormy weather in the Belgian city of Oudenaarde, authorities said on Friday. ...

A 24-year-old Czech student shot dead his father then killed 14 people at his Prague university on Thursday before possibly killing himself, police said of the country’s worst-ever mass shooting. ...

China, the world’s top processor of rare earths, banned the export of technology to extract and separate the critical materials on Thursday, the country’s latest step to protect ...

Eurotunnel unions called off their strike and said rail traffic would resume Thursday night, French BFM TV reported, after an unexpected strike by French workers interrupted traffic on the undersea ...

A 24-year-old Czech student shot dead his father then killed 14 people and wounded 25 others at his Prague university on Thursday before possibly killing himself, police said, marking the country’s ...

The new Polish government led by Donald Tusk is implementing reforms of state media that amount to “anarchy”, the president said on Thursday, amid rising tensions between the head of ...

Former Barcelona and Brazil defender Dani Alves’ trial in Spain on charges of sexual assault has been set for February 5-7, the top court in Catalonia said on Wednesday. Alves ...

Ireland said on Wednesday it would mount a legal challenge against Britain over a new law giving conditional amnesties to former soldiers and militants involved in decades of violence in ...

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich on Wednesday lost a legal challenge to overturn sanctions imposed on him by the European Union in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after ...

Greece has advised commercial vessels sailing in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to avoid Yemeni waters, keep only the necessary crew on the bridge and follow alerts ...

French President Emmanuel Macron faced cracks within his ruling alliance on Wednesday after parliament passed a toughened immigration bill, leaving him needing to find ways to appease left-leaning members. The ...