Europe

Italian police on Wednesday arrested 29 people on charges of belonging to a criminal group smuggling migrants by boat from Turkey and Greece, a statement said. Italy is struggling with a ...

A van transporting oxygen gas canisters exploded in a Milan street on Thursday, injuring one person and setting nearby cars and motorbikes ablaze, local officials said. The city’s mayor, ...

A suspect was detained after a shooting at a Mercedes-Benz MBGn.DE plant in southwestern Germany left two people dead on Thursday, adding to pressure on Germany to tighten its ...

Around 24 people, a majority of them children, were injured on Thursday when a temporary pedestrian bridge collapsed in the Finnish city of Espoo, just outside the capital Helsinki, rescue service ...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Poland’s decision to rename the Russian city of Kaliningrad in its official documents was a “hostile act”, as ties continue to fray over ...

Italy’s long-running drought is a result of climate change, meaning the country must adjust to the new reality, Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida told Reuters. Lollobrigida said Italy needed to ...

Tens of thousands of Serbians protested on Monday, demanding better security, a ban on violent TV content and the resignation of key ministers, days after two mass shootings killed 17 people. ...

German business software maker SAP (SAPG.DE) and German engineering company Siemens (SIEGn.DE) have joined US tech giants in criticising draft EU laws on the use of data generated ...

Imprisoned Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz’s indefinite hunger strike, which began on May 4, continued for the fifth day on Monday. Ayaz’s appeal against the decision to extradite him to ...

Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations on Friday failed to authorize any new ships under a deal allowing safe Black Sea exports of Ukraine grain, which Moscow has threatened ...

European prosecutors on Friday questioned Lebanon’s Finance Minister Youssef el-Khalil, a senior judicial source said, as part of their probe into whether the country’s long-standing central bank governor ...

A global information campaign on handwashing is underway, to mark World Hand Hygiene Day, the Cyprus branch of the EU infection control committee (EUCIC) and the clinical microbiology society (CMI) ...

The French government must apologise to end a dispute over what Italy considers insulting remarks, including some on migrants arriving by boat, its foreign minister and deputy prime minister said ...

Eight people were killed and 14 wounded in Serbia’s second mass shooting in two days and a suspect was arrested, authorities said on Friday, causing horror in a nation that ...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani called off a trip to Paris on Thursday, saying the French interior minister had offended Italy and its Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with unacceptable “insults“. ...

The Serbian government said it had introduced a set of measures on Thursday to prevent potential violence in schools a day after a 13-year-old boy shot and killed eight students ...

Belgian police have arrested seven people on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack, the prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. The suspects had discussed several scenarios for an attack in ...

Strengthening the attorney general’s office in Cyprus, as well as sanctions against Russian and Belarusian entities on the island, were the main topics of discussion during the meeting between ...

Greece issued a series of warnings to shipowners to avoid sailing close to Iranian waters days before Tehran seized two tankers amid heightening tensions in the region, according to documents ...

European savers are pulling more of their money from banks, looking for a better deal as lenders resist paying up to hold on to deposits some feel they can currently ...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani called off a trip to Paris on Thursday, saying the French interior minister had offended Italy and its Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with unacceptable “insults”. ...

A 13-year-old boy gunned down eight fellow pupils and a security guard in a Belgrade school on Wednesday in a planned attack, prompting Serbia’s president to announce tougher curbs ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular pension law passed another hurdle on Wednesday when the Constitutional Council rejected a second bid by political opponents to hold a referendum on ...

A boy gunned down fellow pupils in a Belgrade school on Wednesday morning in a pre-planned attack, shooting dead eight plus a security guard and wounding seven others, Serbian officials ...