Europe

Tourists have been told to check for warnings before climbing towards the summit of Italy’s Mount Etna after an eruption sent hikers scurrying for safety. Video footage from Monday’...

A Greek appeals court found 10 people guilty on Tuesday of misdemeanour charges over a wildfire in 2018 that killed 104 people, a ruling that angered relatives of those who died in the ...

Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders’ PVV party left the governing coalition on Tuesday, in a move that is set to topple the right wing government and will likely lead to ...

Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, results showed on Monday, delivering a major blow to the centrist government’s efforts to cement Warsaw’s pro-European ...

More than 500 people were arrested by police during the Champions League final celebrations in France, and two people were reported dead and 192 injured, the interior ministry said as further festivities ...

By Kuba Stezycki and Alan Charlish Voting was underway in Poland’s knife-edge presidential election on Sunday, which will determine whether the largest country in the European Union’s eastern ...

The European Commission said on Saturday that it “strongly” regrets an announced increase of U.S. tariffs on steel imports and that the EU is prepared to impose countermeasures. U....

France plans to ban smoking on beaches, in parks, outside schools and in other locations from July to protect children, the government said. The ban, which follows similar measures across ...

The centrist frontrunner in Poland’s knife-edge presidential election on Sunday says Poles know everything about him, contrasting that with the slew of media reports about his nationalist opponent’s ...

The army was deployed and rescue specialists were airlifted in to search for a man still missing on Thursday after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down a mountain in ...

UniCredit has signed a derivatives agreement that paves the way for it to nearly double its stake in Greece’s Alpha Bank, increasing its shareholding to close to 20 per cent. ...

Greece has prepared legislation that will introduce tougher penalties for rejected asylum seekers and speed up returns to their home countries, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday. The Mediterranean ...

Italy’s mafia is turning away from violent turf wars to collaborate in drug trafficking, prostitution rings and money laundering, the national anti-mafia agency (DIA) said in an annual report ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday reaffirmed his wish to see a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and said there were no double standards in French policy towards the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered his most severe rebuke of Israel to date on Tuesday, criticising massive air strikes on Gaza as no longer justified by the need to fight ...

Russia’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that Ukraine, backed by certain European countries, had taken several ‘provocative steps’ aimed at derailing Moscow-initiated direct peace talks with Kyiv. The first ...

US President Donald Trump has backed away from a threat to impose 50 per cent tariffs imminently on imports from the European Union, giving more time for talks between Washington and ...

French President Emmanuel Macron played down on Monday an incident in which his wife, Brigitte, pushed him in the face as the couple arrived in Vietnam to begin a tour ...

President Donald Trump backed away from his threat to impose 50% tariffs on imports from the European Union next month, restoring a July 9 deadline to allow for talks between Washington and ...

Three women were injured on Saturday afternoon after a car ploughed into a bus stop in Chalandri, a northern suburb of Athens. The driver fled the scene immediately after the ...

Eighteen people were injured in a knife attack in Hamburg station on Friday evening, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported, and local police confirmed they had arrested the suspected assailant. Four ...

U.S. President Donald Trump cranked up his trade threats on Friday, targeting both smartphone giant Apple along with imports from the entire European Union, sending the global market roiling ...

A Greek naval court has charged 17 coast guard officers over one of the Mediterranean’s worst shipwrecks two years ago, in which hundreds of people are believed to have drowned, ...

A Norwegian man woke up to find a huge Cyprus-registered container ship mere metres away from his home, international media reported on Friday.  The Cyprus-flagged cargo ship, the NCL Salten, ...