Europe

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Monday it would be “devastating” for Kyiv and the European Union if EU leaders do not give his country the green light for ...

A French court on Friday convicted six teenagers in connection with the 2020 beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty, whose murder shocked the country. The teacher had shown his pupils caricatures ...

Greece and Turkey on Thursday agreed to reboot their relations, establishing a roadmap designed to usher in a new era of closer ties between the two NATO allies but historical ...

Greek olive grower Panagiotis Tsafaras has been forced to patrol his groves twice a day recently to fend off thieves trying to steal the crop as prices rise during a ...

Greece and Turkey should reinforce trust and deepen cooperation on common challenges as they try to solve their differences, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday before a trip to ...

Armenia’s defence ministry said Azerbaijani forces shot dead an Armenian serviceman near the two countries’ border on Monday, but Baku said the report was “a complete lie”. The incident, ...

One German tourist died and two others were injured after a man attacked tourists in central Paris near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday evening in what President Emmanuel Macron described ...

Almost three years after Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey sent shockwaves through the British monarchy, their most sensational claim which provoked a royal race ...

A helicopter crashed on a Madrid motorway ring road on Friday morning, hitting a car and leaving three people injured, the city’s emergency services said. Two people were in ...

Shane MacGowan, the London-Irish punk who transformed Irish traditional music with The Pogues and penned some of the 1980s most haunting ballads before sinking into alcohol and drug addiction, died ...

Russia accused Bulgaria of malice and stupidity on Thursday for refusing to allow Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s plane to fly through its airspace. The plane was forced to take ...

Slovak truckers will block the main border crossing with Ukraine from Friday, the country’s truckers association UNAS said, joining Polish protests to win restrictions against Ukrainian drivers. Polish truckers ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fuelled a diplomatic row with Athens on Wednesday by accusing his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis of “grandstanding” during a recent trip to London over ownership ...

Turkey has told Sweden it expects to ratify its long-delayed accession to the NATO military alliance within weeks, Sweden’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. Sweden and Finland asked to ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday sought to reassure the public and businesses that his government would modernise the economy and support vital industries such as chip factories, despite a ...

The top European Union court ruled on Tuesday that public authorities in member states can prohibit employees from wearing signs of religious belief, such as an Islamic head scarf, in ...

Greece’s government on Tuesday accused Britain of showing “a lack of respect” by abruptly cancelling a meeting between their leaders at short notice in a dispute over ancient Greek ...

France has detected an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu virus on a turkey farm in the northwest of the country, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday, as a seasonal ...

Authorities in western Germany on Tuesday urged residents to stay home, warning of life-threatening danger, after a burst of winter weather led to hazardous roads, leaving two people dead. The ...

Talks over a possible return of the British Museum’s Parthenon Sculptures to Athens are not advancing quickly enough, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday as he prepared ...

Pope Francis, suffering from a “lung inflammation”, appeared seated in the chapel of his residence instead of in St. Peter’s Square while an aide read the pontiff’s Sunday ...

The Ukrainian military destroyed eight of nine attack drones launched overnight by Russia, the air force said on Sunday. There were no immediate reports of damage or about where the ...

By Maria Demertzis When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union had little experience of imposing sanctions. Numerous sanctions packages later, there is still significant doubt about their effectiveness. ...

Shoppers took to stores across the world on a Black Friday that appeared to be subdued compared to prior years, looking for discounted electronics, clothing and household goods in the ...