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The Swedish state does not sanction or condone Koran burnings but they are permitted by Swedish freedom of speech laws, Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Thursday. “In some countries ...

Firefighters in Greece battled flames burning for the 10th day on the island of Rhodes, while new blazes erupted on the mainland that destroyed farms and factories overnight and left ...

Wildfires that have been supercharged by strong winds and temperatures exceeding 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) killed two people in central Greece on Wednesday and forced a new wave of evacuations. In the ...

NATO said on Wednesday it was stepping up surveillance of the Black Sea region as it condemned Russia’s exit from a deal assuring the safe passage of ships carrying ...

A fire blazed on a ship off the Dutch coast with nearly 3,000 vehicles on board on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring several others, the coastguard said. The fire began ...

The EU rights watchdog on Wednesday announced a probe into Europe’s deadliest shipwreck in years and whether the bloc’s Frontex border agency fulfilled its rescue duties when the ...

Italy’s southern island of Sicily has been devastated by wildfires that have killed three elderly people, its regional president said, as a heatwave and severe storms further north took ...

Wildfires raging across Greece for more than a week abated on Wednesday, though firefighters still battled on several fronts to contain blazes that have killed three people and caused thousands ...

Sinead O’Connor, the Irish singer known for her stirring voice, 1990 chart-topping hit “Nothing Compares 2 U” and outspoken views, has died at the age of 56, Irish media quoted her family ...

One person died and several others were hurt when a fire broke out on a cargo ship off the northern tip of Netherlands, with an electric car being the suspected ...

A Belgian court convicted six men of murder and two others of terrorism charges on Tuesday after the country’s largest ever trial involving the 2016 Islamist bombings in Brussels that ...

Three people became the first known fatalities on Tuesday of wildfires that have been raging on the Greek islands for a week, and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned of tough ...

Standing outside the blackened shell of what used to be his restaurant, Dimitris Hajifotis laments a livelihood lost to wildfires raging on the Greek island of Rhodes this week. “My ...

The Cypriot mission assisting firefighters battling wildfires in Greece will remain there at least until Thursday, the member of the Cypriot mission and Senior Forestry Officer, Stavros Mouchlis, said on ...

Nearly 100 firefighters were using a helicopter to contain a wildfire in the French municipalities of Cagnes-sur-Mer and Villeneuve-Loubet, close to Nice international airport, officials said on Tuesday. By late afternoon ...

Italy suffered a twin pounding from the elements on Tuesday when severe storms battered the north, killing a woman and a 16-year-old girl scout, while southern regions sweltered under a ...

The European Union is ready to export almost all of Ukraine’s farm produce via “solidarity lanes” and help cover costs, EU agriculture commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski said on Tuesday, after ...

A flotilla of 39 boats sailed from the Austerlitz Bridge to the foot of the Eiffel Tower as Paris 2024 organisers tested the 6 km (3.7 mile) route along the Seine river that will ...

Large areas of the Mediterranean sweltered under an intense summer heatwave on Tuesday and firefighters battled to put out blazes across the region. In Algeria, at least 34 people have died. ...

Greece battled to contain wildfires on the island of Rhodes for a seventh day on Tuesday, as hundreds of tourists who had been forced to evacuate in previous days were ...

Eurozone business activity shrank much more than expected in July as demand in the bloc’s dominant services industry declined while factory output fell at the fastest pace since COVID-19 ...

The Cypriot mission of firefighters operating in Greece will continue to operate in the broader area of ​​Dervenochoria, member of the Cypriot mission and forestry department Stavros Mouchlis said on ...

UBS UBSG.S has been ordered to pay $388 million to British and U.S. regulators over Credit Suisse‘s dealings with private investment firm Archegos Capital Management, the Swiss bank ...

Tour operators flew home nearly 1,500 holidaymakers at the start of a mass evacuation from wildfires raging on the Greek island of Rhodes on Monday and officials said the threat of ...