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Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s power network caused blackouts in many parts of the country on Monday, deepening fears of outages this winter and prompting Kyiv to halt electricity ...

A French criminal court opened the historic manslaughter trial of Air France AIRF.PA and planemaker Airbus AIR.PA on Monday, with angry relatives demanding justice more than 13 years after ...

European Union countries will seek a November deal on more emergency measures to tackle high gas prices, officials said, although countries still disagree on what form those measures would take ...

Power transmission through a 600 megawatt (MW) undersea cable between Sweden and Poland was expected to resume by midnight on Monday after suffering an unplanned outage on Sunday evening, Polish power ...

Austria said on Monday it was seeking to enlist other European Union countries to support its legal action against Brussels for labelling investment in gas and nuclear power as “green”. ...

Germany on Monday said it plans to urgently implement a 96 billion euro ($93 billion) plan to ease pressure on consumers from surging gas prices as it was warned that the supply ...

The strikes that have hit French oil refineries and storage sites will continue on Monday, with workers at TotalEnergies TTEF.PA and ExxonMobil’s XOM.N Esso France sticking to ...

Massive explosions shook the Ukrainian capital and other cities during the morning rush hour on Monday in apparent Russian revenge strikes after President Vladimir Putin declared an explosion on the ...

The White House said on Sunday it would continue to arm Ukraine but declined direct comment on an explosion that damaged Russia’s road-and-rail bridge to Crimea. “We don’t ...

The Kremlin on Sunday praised OPEC+ for agreeing production cuts that had successfully countered the “mayhem” sown by the United States in global energy markets. The OPEC+ decision to cut ...

Pope Francis on Sunday made an impassioned defence of migrants, calling their exclusion “scandalous, disgusting and sinful,” putting him on a collision course with Italy’s upcoming right-wing government. Francis ...

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck near Patras in Greece on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Siesmological Centre said. The quake was 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) below the earth’s surface, EMSC said.

European Union rules to regulate crypto assets will curb the market share of non-euro denominated stablecoins from 2024, potentially limiting EU competitiveness, industry representatives have said. Ambassadors for the 27 EU states ...

A Russian missile attack early on Sunday struck an apartment block and other residential buildings in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 13 people and injuring 87 others, including 10 ...

At least nine people have died after an explosion at a petrol station in the Irish county of Donegal, Irish police said on Saturday, with search and recovery efforts continuing. ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin marked his 70th birthday with little fanfare and a decree targeting a crucial Western energy investment, as signs grew that key parts of his Ukraine invasion ...

The northern English city of Liverpool will host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, on behalf of this year’s winners Ukraine due to the ongoing conflict there. Liverpool edged out the ...

A U.S. Navy reconnaissance aircraft flew near the site of the ruptured Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea hours after the first damage emerged, according to tracking reviewed ...

Danish police early on Friday arrested a 32-year old man after he had entered the grounds of the Iranian embassy in Copenhagen carrying a knife, it said in a statement. ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that Nordic leaders had told their European partners it was still impossible to say at this stage who was behind attacks on the ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said in Prague that he will meet with his Spanish and Portuguese counterparts next week to discuss the cross-Pyrenees MidCat gas pipeline project and reach a “...

European Union leaders on Friday agreed to give more financial and military aid to Ukraine, but a full day of talks in Prague’s ornate royal castle seemed to bring ...

Staunchly anti-nuclear Austria said on Friday it had followed through on a pledge to file a legal challenge to the European Union’s inclusion of natural gas and nuclear energy ...

A new COVID-19 wave appears to be brewing in Europe as cooler weather arrives, with public health experts warning that vaccine fatigue and confusion over types of available vaccines will ...