French President Emmanuel Macron is opening the gilded gates of Louis XIV’s palace to U.S. President Donald Trump for a private reception, show and dinner marking America’s 250th birthday
June 17, 2026
Ancient Sherwood Forest oak tree reputed to have sheltered Robin Hood has died
June 18, 2026
Cristiano Ronaldo and his Portugal teammates were surprisingly held to a 1-1 draw by Congo in their opening match of the World Cup
June 18, 2026
U.S.
June 17, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that it would be unfair for Iran not to have ballistic missiles if other countries have them.
June 18, 2026
Major stock indexes fell, bond yields rose and the U.S. dollar extended gains on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve held the benchmark interest
June 17, 2026
U.S.
June 18, 2026
German technology company Robert Bosch agreed to pay $36 million to U.S. authorities for shipping over $70 million worth of sensor products and software for cell
June 18, 2026
Leaders at the Group of Seven summit have backed U.S. President Donald Trump's tentative agreement with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and extend a ceasefire
June 17, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that he hoped closer ties and undertaking joint projects with India would make both countries stronger.
June 17, 2026
The European Parliament approved on Wednesday an overhaul of migration policy aimed at ramping up deportations and allowing member states to set up
June 17, 2026
The office of European Council President Antonio Costa has made "brief contacts at diplomatic level" with the Kremlin in recent weeks "to open
June 17, 2026
Ukraine is seeking an additional $20 billion in military funding from its allies, Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said on Wednesday at a joint press conference with his Dutch
June 17, 2026
U.S.
June 17, 2026
OVHcloud plans to train frontier AI models - the most advanced, large-scale systems built from scratch using vast data and computing power - its CEO said
June 17, 2026
Europe and the U.S. are making progress toward approving two new variants of the Boeing 737 MAX for use, a top European aviation regulator
June 17, 2026
Volkswagen's plans for a deal with Israeli arms maker Rafael to use its struggling Osnabrueck plant are being complicated by Qatar's
June 17, 2026
Russia accused Ukraine of conducting a deadly drone strike on a bus carrying Belarusian schoolchildren on Wednesday, an allegation that Ukraine's military said was "false".
June 17, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he believed progress would be made in coming weeks on broadening access to
June 17, 2026
France's economy is set for modest growth in 2026 as an oil price spike squeezes consumers, only partially offset by a rebound in industrial output, the national statistics
June 17, 2026
Poland and Germany have signed a bilateral defence agreement, defence ministers of both countries announced on Wednesday, as Warsaw is seeking to firm up its alliances at a
June 17, 2026
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, a former prime minister of Spain, told a High Court judge on Wednesday that he never intervened to secure a
June 17, 2026
British television personality Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he has prostate cancer on the final fifth-season episodes of his farm reality show
June 17, 2026
Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, a son of the late founder of EssilorLuxottica, is seeking the financing for a deal to make him the largest shareholder in family
June 17, 2026
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he has had good talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the sidelines of
June 17, 2026
Stellantis is in talks with two potential partners for cooperation on its struggling luxury brand Maserati, the automaker's Chief Executive Antonio Filosa said on Wednesday
June 17, 2026
A repeat of the 2022 inflation shock that sent interest rates to their highest level in decades looks less likely at the current juncture but can't be
June 17, 2026
Britain's BBC public service broadcaster will cut 550 jobs, including in its news and content divisions, it said on Wednesday, as part of plans under new director-general
June 17, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine has secured key support from world leaders at the Group of Seven summit in France
June 17, 2026
The jury in the trial of former Northern Ireland politician Jeffrey Donaldson for historical sex offences is set to begin its deliberations on Thursday after his
June 17, 2026
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is downplaying the impact of the Trump administration's decision to reduce military support for allies
June 17, 2026
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the killing of a Russian artist critical of President Vladimir Putin looks like a political assassination
June 17, 2026
Jeremy Clarkson, ex-‘Top Gear’ host, says he has ‘aggressive’ cancer
June 17, 2026
Prominent Russian businessman Ilya Traber has been detained in connection with an investigation into a suspected contract killing, Russian media reported on Wednesday.
June 17, 2026
U.N. experts on Wednesday expressed grave concern for two Britons convicted in Iran of espionage who are now on hunger strike in jail.
June 17, 2026
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday it was in the mutual interest of the United States and the European Union for the EU
June 17, 2026
When Brexit abruptly ended British cheesemaker Michael Harte’s ambitious European export plans, four years passed
June 17, 2026
Denmark's military will deploy a battalion of 850 troops to NATO member Latvia in the autumn, taking over from a Swedish contingent that was stationed in the region,
June 17, 2026
Other NATO members have increased their contributions to the alliance's crisis forces to fill many of the gaps left by U.S. cuts to its commitments, NATO chief Mark Rutte
June 17, 2026
Artificial Intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in a highly optimistic appearance at the VivaTech
June 17, 2026
Britain's competition watchdog ordered Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work, part of new rules aimed at securing a "fairer
June 17, 2026
German automotive suppliers expecting business conditions to worsen over the next year now outnumber the industry's optimists, a survey showed on Wednesday,
June 17, 2026
By Supantha Mukherjee and Leo Marchandon PARIS/STOCKHOLM, June 17 - Europe's quest for technological sovereignty will dominate discussions at the G7 in France and the VivaTech conference in Paris this
June 17, 2026
In the span of just a few months, Irene Roggero Ugues watched her daughter Rossella's behaviour change as social media
June 17, 2026
The United States and U.S.
June 17, 2026
Britain's economy has seen weak growth overall since it left the European Union at the start of 2020, though disentangling the effects of Brexit from the
June 17, 2026
This time 10 years ago, few would have predicted that Northern Ireland would be topping the United Kingdom's economic growth charts after the 2016 vote to leave the
June 17, 2026
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday the firing of warning shots by a Russian frigate to divert a UK-flagged civilian yacht near British
June 17, 2026
Euro zone negotiated wage growth appears to be slowing as predicted, European Central Bank data showed on Wednesday, offering policymakers relief that the Iran-war-
June 17, 2026
Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit has undergone a successful lung transplant and will remain in hospital for several weeks as she begins her recovery,
June 17, 2026
British inflation held at 2.8% in May, unchanged from April's 13-month low and below forecasts from both economists and the Bank of
June 17, 2026
European allies have stepped up to contribute more forces available to NATO in a crisis, after the U.S. reduced its contribution, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said
June 17, 2026
Norway's royal house says Crown Princess Mette-Marit has undergone a successful lung transplant
June 17, 2026
Shares in German premium carmaker BMW fell around 7% on Wednesday to their lowest since late 2020 after it issued a profit warning that surprised some
June 17, 2026
A coastal development project in Albania linked to President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is facing widespread resistance
June 03, 2026
Why 0.1% of Britons could determine the prime minister’s fate
June 17, 2026
Russian frigate that fired warning shots at British yacht was ‘reckless,’ says UK PM Starmer
June 16, 2026
Brazilian MMA star Alex Pereira has accused Frenchman Cyril Gane of landing multiple “illegal shots” during their fight for the interim UFC heavyweight title at the White House
June 17, 2026
An exhibition in Romania’s capital highlights the harsh reality of interrogations by the country's communist-era secret police
June 17, 2026
German Football YouTuber Fiago joins The Lead.
June 16, 2026
France's economy is growing more slowly than expected after a sluggish start to the year with the Middle East conflict weighing on activity, the central bank said on Tuesday
June 17, 2026
Volkswagen will pare back production of the open-top T-roc Cabrio SUV at its plant in Osnabrueck, Germany, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday, alarming employee
June 17, 2026
U.S.
June 16, 2026
Pope Leo on Tuesday praised the interim deal between the United States and Iran to end the regional war in the Middle East, saying "thanks be to God" that
June 17, 2026
G7 leaders called on Tuesday for a strong and coordinated response to the Ebola outbreak in Congo, urging other nations to dedicate resources in a bid to ensure the virus
June 16, 2026
A Russian warship has fired warning shots near a U.K.-registered pleasure yacht in the English Channel
June 16, 2026
Four households evacuated after pickup truck crashes into apartment building
June 17, 2026
The Chinese embassy in Britain said on Tuesday it had lodged "serious
June 16, 2026
French department store BHV and online fast-fashion retailer Shein have ended their partnership, just seven months after the opening of a permanent Shein shop in the Paris
June 16, 2026
Repairs to a nearly 1,000-year-old monastery in Kyiv that was damaged by what Ukraine said was a deliberate Russian strike could take around two years, an official said on
June 16, 2026
BMW slashed its outlook for 2026 on Tuesday, blaming an accelerated downturn in the key Chinese market as well as the impact of the Iran war, which the
June 16, 2026
Europe must tap into trillions of euros of private savings to fund the economic transformation it needs to
June 16, 2026
Group of Seven leaders are meeting for talks on Russia’s war in Ukraine and U.S. President Donald Trump's tentative deal with Iran
June 16, 2026
Thyssenkrupp plans to spin off its materials trading division, whose sales account for nearly a third of the group's
June 16, 2026
A Russian artist critical of President Vladimir Putin was shot and killed in the eastern Polish town of Biala Podlaska, a Polish prosecutor said on Tuesday.
June 16, 2026
Milan prosecutors have opened an investigation into a WhatsApp group in which about a dozen tram drivers in the city exchanged comments about images of female passengers
June 16, 2026
Polish prosecutors say a 44-year-old Russian artist who has been critical of President Vladimir Putin was shot and killed at close range near his home in eastern Poland
June 16, 2026
French street artist JR has transformed Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, into an artificial cavern
June 16, 2026
The Uffizi Gallery has repositioned Sandro Botticelli’s masterpieces “The Birth of Venus” and “Primavera.”
June 16, 2026
A Milan court on Tuesday acquitted all eight defendants in the first verdict among a dozen criminal cases into urban planning that
June 16, 2026
The European Central Bank will continue to be "proactive" in its fight against high inflation even after a deal between the United States
June 16, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday the Group of Seven leaders agreed at a summit in France that Russia was not winning its war in Ukraine, and they
June 16, 2026
Swiss voters support a new agreement to deepen economic ties with the European Union by a two-to-one margin, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday,
June 16, 2026
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, is set to lose permission to serve European Union clients from
June 16, 2026
Britain’s Prince George will enroll at Eton, the elite $80,000 school his father attended
June 16, 2026
Exiled Russian artist known for anti-Putin cartoons shot dead in Poland
June 16, 2026
President Donald Trump and G7 leaders are focusing on the Ukraine war and Trump is considering reimposing sanctions soon on Russian oil shipments
June 16, 2026
Kazuo Ishiguro's next novel, “Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger,” is set in 1930s England
June 16, 2026
Singer Bonnie Tyler is no longer in a coma but remains in intensive care after being hospitalized
June 16, 2026
European shares edged higher on Tuesday, extending the previous session's rally, sparked by a preliminary agreement between the
June 16, 2026
Iceland should join the European Union to help it boost its economy, stand up to larger trade partners and withstand Arctic rivalry, the island's
June 16, 2026
Naomi Campbell has appeared in a London court, seeking to overturn a ban on her being a charity trustee in England and Wales
June 16, 2026
Turkey's foreign minister said on Tuesday he told his Russian counterpart about the need to avoid steps in the Black Sea that threatened regional security and Turkey's
June 16, 2026
The European Parliament's approval of Brussels' trade deal with the United States is important for German auto makers seeking clarity but trade barriers remain too high,
June 16, 2026
Cyprus' anti-corruption watchdog on Tuesday said it had identified possible abuse of power by former president Nicos Anastasiades while in office, referring the matter to
June 16, 2026
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Europe is worried over tensions in the disputed South China Sea that could endanger freedom of navigation as happened in the Strait of Hormuz
June 16, 2026
A shadowy figure known as El Money orchestrated arson attacks in London linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer
June 16, 2026
Italian police have arrested seven people accused of belonging to an anarchist militant network and carrying out sabotage on a high-speed railway line during the Winter
June 16, 2026
A Ukrainian drone attack started a fire at the refinery that is the largest fuel supplier to the Moscow region on Tuesday, and two industry sources told Reuters that it had halted
June 16, 2026
G7 leaders — and the rest of the world — wait for clarity on US-Iran agreement
June 16, 2026
Germany has officially rejected UniCredit's offer for Commerzbank shares, the country's finance agency said on Tuesday, citing a low
June 16, 2026
The mastermind of Greece's defunct and most lethal guerrilla group November 17, who was freed from jail last month, will return to prison after the country's top court
June 16, 2026
Britain on Tuesday imposed sanctions on the banking arm of Russian firm Yandex, two other lenders and dozens of vessels accused of
June 16, 2026
Centre stage at last week's Berlin airshow was the "wingman" drone, Europe's latest-generation defence weapon designed to accompany
June 16, 2026
Two businessmen brothers who held opposite positions on Brexit at the time of the vote are both feeling disappointed 10 years on.
June 16, 2026
For eight years, the United States has waged economic war on China, slapping big taxes on Chinese products before they enter America
June 16, 2026
Ukraine is accelerating reforms to align its banking and insurance sectors with EU standards by 2028 despite wartime challenges, to buttress investor
June 16, 2026
A World Cup video review official says his hand gesture resembling a white supremacist sign was caused by an involuntary twitch
June 15, 2026
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, one of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin's closest allies, said in an interview published on Monday that Russia and Ukraine must compromise
June 16, 2026
Norway is leaning into the country’s Viking heritage as its star-studded men’s team containing Erling Haaland and Martin Odegaard heads into a first World Cup in 28 years
June 16, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday a deal with Iran has been agreed and the test of the deal will be released sometime after a formal signing on Friday.
June 15, 2026
Shortly after midnight on May 13, 2025, Ukrainian national Roman Lavrynovych messaged someone he knew as 'EL Money', a mystery figure who
June 15, 2026
Ukraine opened the first phase of membership talks with the European Union on Monday, a key step in Kyiv’s efforts to anchor itself in
June 16, 2026
World leaders are gathering in a French spa town for a Group of Seven summit
June 15, 2026
Ukraine has officially started European Union membership negotiations, a long process that requires political reforms while facing a Russian invasion
June 15, 2026
President Donald Trump has started his visit to the G7 summit by hailing an agreement aimed at ending the U.S. conflict with Iran
June 15, 2026
Sweden's parliament passed a law on Monday allowing authorities to revoke immigrants' residency permits based on bad behaviour, such as having unpaid debts, doing
June 15, 2026
Hungary's parliament approved a constitutional amendment on Monday that allows prime ministers to serve for a maximum of eight years, effectively barring former premier
June 15, 2026
France's media regulator on Monday ordered rolling news channel CNews to comply with rules on pluralism and diversity of opinion, putting the ultra-
June 15, 2026
An international court found that Russia flouted some sea laws during the construction of the Kerch Strait bridge between mainland Russia and annexed Crimea, but
June 15, 2026
If Andy Burnham wins Thursday's
June 15, 2026
U.S.
June 15, 2026
A 1,000-year-old monastery that symbolises Ukraine's spiritual and cultural heritage was badly damaged on Monday in a major attack by
June 15, 2026
A Russian bombardment of Ukraine's biggest cities has set ablaze part of an Eastern Orthodox landmark and killed 11 people
June 15, 2026
A rare first-edition copy of Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights" is up for auction for the first time in over a century
June 15, 2026
The European Union targeted Russian shadow fleet figures accused of aiding Moscow's Ukraine war effort as well as individuals linked to opposition figure Alexei Navalny's
June 15, 2026
The CEO of Airbus on Monday urged France and the European Union to tackle high regulatory costs and weak competitiveness weighing on businesses as
June 15, 2026
Firefighters and employees were cleaning up on Monday after what Ukraine said was a targeted Russian strike that caused serious damage to a nearly
June 15, 2026
Europe's STOXX 600 hit a record high on Monday, boosted by a relief rally across most sectors after the United States and Iran
June 15, 2026
The Czech government has agreed to cut funding and end licence fees for public media services in its biggest revamp in decades, drawing a harsh reaction from
June 15, 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain will ban children under 16 from using social media apps like Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube from early next year
June 15, 2026
The European Union is poised to implement the import duty cuts it agreed with U.S.
June 15, 2026
Spain's government has received around 900,000 applications from undocumented migrants seeking legal status under a programme that initially expected half a million
June 15, 2026
France and Britain are pushing plans for a multinational naval mission to safeguard shipping through the Strait of Hormuz
June 15, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that he had offered to meet Vladimir Putin at a G7 summit in France this week or even in the United States for talks to
June 15, 2026
Defence group KNDS launched a new battle tank on Monday as a stopgap replacement for France's ageing Leclerc fleet, as questions grow over the future of a
June 15, 2026
A Ukrainian man was found guilty on Monday of carrying out arson attacks on property connected to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in May last year on
June 15, 2026
EU foreign ministers have not reached a consensus to approve sanctions against Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, EU's top diplomat Kaja
June 15, 2026
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday rejected as a "crude fake" accusations by Ukraine and the West that Moscow had struck a historic monastery in the Ukrainian capital
June 15, 2026
Two men were convicted of a plot last year to set fire to two houses and a car linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer
June 15, 2026
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will repeat Turkey's offer to host talks between Russia and Ukraine on a visit to Moscow this week at which he will also discuss Black Sea
June 15, 2026
Commerzbank CEO Bettina Orlopp said on Monday that the bank was "taken aback" by UniCredit's allegation earlier in the day that it was misleading the public.
June 15, 2026
ECB President Christine Lagarde on Monday welcomed news of a U.S.-Iran ceasefire, saying it could help reopen the Strait of
June 15, 2026
The stepson of Norway's Crown Prince Haakon was found guilty on Monday of rape and domestic violence and sentenced to four years in prison
June 15, 2026
Russia is committed to U.S.
June 15, 2026
The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a symbol of Ukrainian spiritual and cultural history whose golden domes have towered over the capital for almost a millennium, was set
June 15, 2026
The European Central Bank has taken the first step to contain price pressures, but it is increasingly clear that more needs to be done, Slovak central bank chief and ECB
June 15, 2026
In its efforts to secure European approval of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) system, Tesla has presented self-published safety statistics to
June 15, 2026
The stepson of Norway's Crown Prince Haakon has been found guilty of two counts of rape and other crimes and is sentenced to four years in prison, an Oslo court ruled on
June 15, 2026
Older voters and city dwellers were instrumental in defeating a right-wing proposal to cap Switzerland's population at 10 million, data from Sunday's
June 15, 2026
ECB President Christine Lagarde on Monday welcomed news of a U.S.-Iran ceasefire, saying it could help reopen the Strait of
June 15, 2026
Renault Group said on Monday it has teamed up with defence technology company Thales to develop a military vehicle, deepening the French carmaker's push into defence as
June 15, 2026
Russia said on Monday that it did not strike the historic Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv in an overnight attack on military factories in the Ukrainian capital and that a
June 15, 2026
Marius Borg Høiby, the eldest son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been sentenced to four years in prison
June 15, 2026
Swiss financial crime prosecutors are racing against time as outdated regulation in one of the world's top cross-border wealth management centres allows
June 15, 2026
In a quiet cafe popular for its free Wi-Fi and good coffee, a Russian interior designer logs onto a virtual private network so she can chat with friends
June 13, 2026
Yasin Ayari scored twice and Sweden showed it belonged at the 2026 World Cup, pounding Tunisia 5-1 to move atop Group F
June 15, 2026
Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons in clashes with stone-throwing youths during a protest on Sunday in Geneva against the G7 group of wealthy nations
June 14, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump is in France this week for a G7 summit
June 15, 2026
Britain’s banks recorded the sharpest increase in losses to certain types of fraud since the COVID-era boom in technology-enabled scams, renewing calls for
June 15, 2026
E4 nations including the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy said on Sunday the countries were prepared to lift sanctions on Iran in response to steps on its nuclear program
June 15, 2026
U.S.
June 14, 2026
Switzerland on Sunday rejected a proposal to cap its population at 10 million as voters prioritised economic stability and
June 14, 2026
Geneva police on Sunday fired teargas at protesters who set fire to a Tesla vehicle and smashed windows at a United Nations agency as they vented
June 14, 2026
Swiss police fired tear gas as protesters opposed to a G7 summit across the border in France targeted United Nations buildings in Geneva, a Reuters witness said.
June 14, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he had spoken to U.S.
June 14, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin each spoke by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday, marking Trump's 80th birthday and ahead of this week’s G7 summit
June 14, 2026
Trump holds phone calls with Putin and Zelensky on his 80th birthday
June 15, 2026
Lewis Hamilton has won his first race since joining Ferrari two years ago while Formula 1 leader Kimi Antonelli broke down at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix
June 14, 2026
An early morning storm soaked Germany and Curacao fans arriving early at the stadium for their teams' World Cup opener on Sunday, sending them scrambling for umbrellas,
June 14, 2026
Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million
June 14, 2026
British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson said he was detained at Heathrow Airport on Saturday and had his phone seized, after a week when he posted heavily online about
June 14, 2026
The European Commission said on Sunday that it is assessing the practical implications of a U.S. export control directive impacting artificial intelligence company
June 14, 2026
General Roberto Vannacci launched his new far-right party on Sunday, posing a direct challenge to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's grip on power as he seeks
June 14, 2026
Russia’s overwhelming manpower advantage against Ukraine is starting to wane
June 14, 2026
British commandos boarded and intercepted a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the Channel on Sunday, leading for the first time an operation to
June 14, 2026
UK intercepts Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker for first time
June 14, 2026
Britain’s armed forces have boarded and detained a sanctioned tanker, the Smyrtos, in the English Channel
June 14, 2026
Romania's centrist President Nicusor Dan on Sunday designated Adrian Vestea, a member of the liberal party, as prime minister, after independent candidate Eugen Tomac
June 14, 2026
Tens of thousands of people marched in Rome in rival demonstrations over migration
June 14, 2026
President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron will meet over dinner at the Palace of Versailles after the upcoming G7 summit of leading industrialized nations in France
June 13, 2026
A Ukrainian drone attack has killed one person and injured three in Russia’s Krasnodar region, according to local officials
June 13, 2026
Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in Belfast to denounce anti-immigrant rioters
June 13, 2026
Hungary's main opposition Fidesz party re-elected former Prime Minister Viktor Orban as its leader on Saturday for another year despite the party's loss of power in an
June 13, 2026
Switzerland’s ‘Brexit moment’: Vote on a population cap sets up potential collision with EU
June 13, 2026
Pope Leo’s plane was grounded. Then the King of Spain stepped in to help
June 13, 2026
When U.S. President Gerald Ford and leaders of the five other leading democracies gathered at a 14th-century castle outside Paris on Nov. 15, 1975, they planted the seed for what subsequently became the Group of Seven nations
June 13, 2026
Helen Mirren, one of the world’s most acclaimed actors, has joined a select group of people recognized by King Charles III for their “major contribution” to British life
June 13, 2026
Ambassadors from the European Union's 27 countries agreed on Friday to advance membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova, with the first phase of negotiations set to
June 12, 2026
Hungary's ruling Tisza party submitted legislation on Friday to overhaul public media, which critics at home and abroad say became a government mouthpiece under former
June 13, 2026
European Union countries agreed on Friday to maintain the current three-hour flight delay threshold for compensation in the EU's next set of airline passenger rights and
June 12, 2026
The Italian economy will grow by 0.6% this year and 0.4% in 2027, the country's central bank said on Friday, confirming its previous estimate for 2026 but trimming next
June 12, 2026
Pope Leo boarded a Falcon jet offered by the King of Spain after a technical issue grounded the larger papal plane on the island of Tenerife,
June 12, 2026
Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups delivered an appeal in France on Friday to urge the international community not to abandon a two-state solution,
June 13, 2026
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to be more muted in his criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump at an upcoming summit in Europe
June 12, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is warning human traffickers that they will face God’s wrath for exploiting the desperation of migrants
June 12, 2026
Alphabet's Google will appeal a German court ruling which said it is legally liable for false claims appearing in AI Overviews, the U.S. tech company said
June 12, 2026
The U.S. will give Poland a new $4 billion loan from the Foreign Military Financing programme, U.S.
June 12, 2026
Ukraine will hike military wages and seek to recruit more fighters abroad, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday, as the army faces a manpower
June 12, 2026
The European Union's central asylum database, Eurodac, suffered a technical malfunction on Friday, the day the bloc's landmark migration and asylum pact went into force,
June 12, 2026
Famed Magritte painting damaged by child with pine cone
June 12, 2026
ICE takedown in view of young children at school leaves 2 detained and backlash roiling in Baltimore
June 12, 2026
In a new blow to the Kremlin’s narrative that Moscow is winning the 4-year-old war in Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces have targeted fuel supplies to the Crimean Peninsula
June 12, 2026
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is vowing to fight for his position after the sudden resignation of the defense secretary
June 12, 2026
The opening lyrics couldn’t be plainer: “I am from Bosnia; take me to America.”
June 12, 2026
A Spanish High Court judge investigating former Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero for suspected corruption has opened a separate probe over jewellery found during
June 12, 2026
The founder and chairman of Italian car rental company Sicily by Car, Tommaso Dragotto, said in an interview on Friday he had been given a police escort after a string of
June 12, 2026
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday rejected the idea that he had lost authority in his role, and said he would fight to keep his job, adding that anyone who
June 12, 2026
Rolex raised the global price of its gold watches by an average 5% this month, adding a rare second annual
June 12, 2026
NATO’s top military officer is considering new plans to defend Europe if Russia attacks
June 12, 2026
The relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron began with a handshake nearly a decade ago
June 12, 2026
Italy is working on a new bond aimed exclusively at institutional investors to tap growing demand for inflation-linked products among banks, funds and insurers
June 12, 2026
Warfare in Ukraine and beyond faces a paradigm shift in the coming years as artificial intelligence systems integrate into unified networks that speed up
June 12, 2026
Pope Leo on Friday issued a stern warning to human traffickers and criminal groups who exploit desperate migrants trying to reach
June 12, 2026
The Bank of England will leave its key interest rate unchanged at 3.75% on June 18, according to all 65 economists polled by Reuters, who remained
June 12, 2026
An overhaul of immigration and asylum policy enters into force across the European Union on Friday, a decade in the making, as EU countries have come
June 12, 2026
Ukraine is seeking an additional $20 billion in military funding from its allies to cement what it sees as its current battlefield advantage over Russia, a Ukrainian defence
June 12, 2026
European shares surged on Friday, with major indexes jumping more than 1%, as renewed hopes for a diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East
June 12, 2026
Automakers Volkswagen, Stellantis and Renault, which account for about 60% of Europe's car output, are urging the EU to adopt a simple "Made in Europe" rule and stronger
June 12, 2026
About half of evangelical Christians - a core component of President Donald Trump's political base - believe his
June 12, 2026
Former Albanian leader Sali Berisha, now the head of the main opposition party, said on Friday that the United States has lifted a travel ban placed on him in 2021.
June 12, 2026
As a child growing up in gloomy northern England, David Hockney noticed the sharply defined shadows in the Hollywood films of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
June 12, 2026
Celebrated British artist David Hockney dies at 88
June 12, 2026
The United States plans to significantly reduce the aircraft and warships it makes available for NATO operations in Europe, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing two senior
June 12, 2026
Acclaimed British artist David Hockney has died aged 88
June 12, 2026
A pro-Russian opposition alliance filed a request to Armenia's election commission on Friday to throw out the results of last Sunday's parliamentary election, won by Prime Minister
June 12, 2026
Germany's economic recovery is likely to proceed in small steps at best, depending on the conflict in the Middle East, and energy and commodity prices, the economy ministry
June 12, 2026
Heavy government spending on defence and infrastructure will stop Germany from slipping into recession this year, as the war in Iran takes its toll on Europe's biggest
June 12, 2026
The British public's expectations for inflation in the long term rose to a record high last month after the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran sent energy prices soaring, the Bank of
June 12, 2026
NATO will gradually adjust the strength of its peace support mission in Kosovo, which has been in place since 1999, over the next year due to the steady security
June 12, 2026
European Central Bank policymakers kept a follow-up rate hike in July on the table on Friday given rapid inflation, but said it was far too early to say if a move would
June 12, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu Hope, as the saying goes, springs external.
June 12, 2026
Ukraine and Russia exchanged overnight drone strikes into early Friday, with Ukraine hitting oil refineries and a petrochemicals plant while Russia attacked railway stations and
June 12, 2026
Consumer prices in France rose 2.8% year-on-year in May, the highest level since February 2024, statistics office INSEE said on Friday, confirming a preliminary reading published
June 12, 2026
Supreme Court blocks Alabama from executing inmate with method lower court found cruel and unusual
June 12, 2026
Nelly Korda and Olivia Cowan's "Legally Blonde" team finishes three shots off the lead in the Dow Championship
June 12, 2026
Foreign workers building a sprawling $350 million American Consulate in Milan say they were paid less than $2 an hour after being promised fair wages
June 11, 2026
American novelist Virginia Evans has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction with “The Correspondent,” a bestseller told in letters
June 12, 2026
Gwyneth Paltrow faces online backlash for starring in luxury Israel real estate ad
June 12, 2026
After watching images of masked groups rampaging through the
June 12, 2026
Soccer fans pack UNCG to welcome Norway ahead of World Cup
June 12, 2026
U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey has resigned, saying the government is not willing to spend enough on the military at a time of rising threats
June 11, 2026
Real Madrid signs José Mourinho to second stint as club manager
June 12, 2026
Italy will ramp up its official defence budget this year, but NATO allies should rethink military priorities as warfare is transformed by drones,
June 11, 2026
Two top UK defense officials resign over military spending in fresh blow to Keir Starmer
June 11, 2026
Slovenia’s new conservative government has abolished an entry ban on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and two of his ministers
June 12, 2026
U.S.-based investment firm Elliott Advisors has joined bidders considering a takeover of The Very Group in a deal that could value the British online retailer at £2 billion ($2.67
June 11, 2026
France plays host to a Group of Seven summit next week but it is shopkeepers in neighbouring Switzerland who have already boarded
June 11, 2026
The International Monetary Fund cut its growth forecast for the euro zone on Thursday and raised its expectation for inflation because of the U.S.-
June 11, 2026
The United States and the European Union have yet to decide whether to continue suspending or to reimpose tariffs on $11.5 billion of goods in a
June 11, 2026
Slovenia's government has revoked a 2025 decision banning the export and transit of weapons and military equipment to Israel, as well as most arms imports from the country, the
June 11, 2026
The European Union's budget for 2028-2034 should be 2% smaller than the 2 trillion euros proposed last year, the Cypriot EU presidency proposed on
June 11, 2026
Inclusion on a United States sanctions list is not sufficient on its own for a refusal to open a bank account in the European Union, the Court of Justice of the European
June 11, 2026
Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso has signaled he is near the end of his career after saying Sunday’s race will likely be his last in Barcelona
June 11, 2026
Northern Ireland politician Jeffrey Donaldson denied all charges of historical sex offences against two girls when he took the stand in his trial on Thursday, telling the
June 11, 2026
European Central Bank policymakers see keeping interest rates on hold at their next meeting in July as the more likely scenario, if energy prices stayed near their
June 11, 2026
Italian beach bans umbrellas for people between the ages of 10 and 65
June 11, 2026
The economic fallout from the Iran war — higher energy prices and increased uncertainty — will drag down global growth this year, the World Bank said Thursday
June 11, 2026
The European Central Bank raised interest rates on Thursday, in a aimed at curbing mounting inflationary pressures before a surge in energy costs triggered by the Iran war
June 11, 2026
Volkswagen is pressing ahead with sweeping job cuts and cost reductions in Germany as planned, shrinking its workforce by 19,000 by the end of the year, CEO Oliver Blume is
June 11, 2026
Ambassadors from France, Germany and Britain in Moscow met Russia’s deputy foreign minister on Thursday to condemn the latest escalation in the war in Ukraine and reaffirm
June 11, 2026
The European Central Bank raised interest rates as expected on Thursday, hoping to prevent an Iran war-induced surge in energy prices from broadening out into higher
June 11, 2026
Two days of anti-immigration violence in Northern Ireland is nothing short of racist thuggery, Britain's minister for the province
June 11, 2026
Fuel stations on the Russian-held Crimean peninsula were out of petrol on Thursday, Reuters witnesses said, as a Ukrainian campaign against supply
June 11, 2026
China's vice premier urged economic cooperation and inclusive growth during a video call hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on
June 11, 2026
The European Central Bank raised interest rates for the first time in nearly three years on Thursday in the hope of curbing
June 11, 2026
European shares closed higher on Thursday, snapping a four-day losing streak, as investors looked past escalating rhetoric from U.S.
June 11, 2026
Polish lawmakers voted on Thursday to crack down on so-called 'trash streaming', imposing jail terms of up to five years for online broadcasts of crimes like rape and
June 11, 2026
French officials have suggested an overhaul of the EU's diplomatic service that could include boosting the role for foreign policy
June 11, 2026
The United Nations human rights chief said on Thursday he was appalled by violence erupting in different parts of the United Kingdom in recent days.
June 11, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has traveled to the Canary Islands, an epicenter of the European migration debate
June 11, 2026
The nebulous nature of narco-terrorism has allowed presidents from Reagan to Trump to deploy the term when it serves broader political goals in Latin America.
June 11, 2026
A fire that broke out in a tourist area on the Spanish island of Mallorca has killed two people and left several injured
June 11, 2026
The European Central Bank on Thursday became the first major central bank to raise interest rates in response to the Iran war
June 11, 2026
The European Commission's appeal against a 2024 ruling forcing it to disclose information about COVID-19 vaccine contracts should be dismissed, an adviser to Europe's top
June 11, 2026
The Kremlin on Thursday shrugged off the prospect of new European Union sanctions against its banks, saying they had already been operating under sanctions for a long time
June 11, 2026
Pope Leo appealed to world leaders on Thursday to treat migrants more humanely, warning in a visit to Spain's Canary Islands, one of Europe's
June 11, 2026
Ryanair, Europe’s biggest airline, investigated for charging parents to sit with their children
June 11, 2026
Sweden's government said on Thursday it had dropped plans to lock up violent offenders as young as 13 in special prison units as there was not enough support for the
June 11, 2026
The team of the ousted leader of Turkey's main opposition, Ozgur Ozel, has resigned from the party's assembly, his office said on Thursday, adding that the move should
June 11, 2026
French singer and actor Patrick Bruel faces preliminary charges of rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, and harassment involving several women between 2008 and 2019
June 11, 2026
Police fire water cannon on second night of anti-immigrant protests in Northern Ireland
June 10, 2026
Shares in Hugo Boss rose more than 11% on Thursday after its largest shareholder, Frasers Group, launched a $2.3 billion takeover bid for the
June 11, 2026
Germany's economy is expected to recover more slowly than expected as higher energy prices linked to the Iran war weigh on households, companies and
June 11, 2026
French singer and actor Patrick Bruel, one of France's top-selling recording artists, has been placed under formal investigation for rape, attempted rape, sexual assault,
June 11, 2026
Ukraine's police chief has accused Russia of recruiting teenage Ukrainian girls to kill Ukrainian military personnel, following the arrest of a 17-year-old
June 10, 2026
About 75,000 voters in northwest England are about to make a significant decision
June 11, 2026
Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are set to dominate next week’s Group of Seven summit, as host France crafts an agenda aimed
June 11, 2026
Germany's construction sector has not yet emerged from its downturn, with a tentative recovery being hit by a new geopolitical price shock, the head of its main industry
June 11, 2026
Police have used water cannons on protesters in Northern Ireland after violence erupted a second night over a stabbing in Belfast
June 10, 2026
French and Swiss authorities are imposing pandemic-like border restrictions as the G7 summit begins
June 11, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has celebrated the Sagrada Familia Basilica as a masterpiece of “stones, colors and light.”
June 10, 2026
The governor of Sevastopol in Russian-held Crimea said on Wednesday that plans for distributing rationed petrol had been delayed because
June 11, 2026
Britain's housing market remained in the doldrums last month despite a hint that buyers might be recovering a bit of interest, a survey showed on Thursday.
June 11, 2026
Frasers Group, the retailer controlled by British billionaire Mike Ashley, launched a €2 billion ($2.31 billion) takeover offer for struggling
June 10, 2026
Pope Leo visited Barcelona's Sagrada Familia on Wednesday and inaugurated the newest of its soaring geometric spires that makes the
June 10, 2026
The family of a man who lost an eye in a knife attack appealed for calm on Wednesday after the incident triggered a wave of anti-
June 10, 2026
Tesla Full Self-Driving supervised driver assistance software has been
June 11, 2026
Thousands took to the streets of Albania's capital Tirana on Wednesday in the largest demonstration yet against the development of a
June 11, 2026
Pope blesses Barcelona’s Gaudi-designed towering architectural masterpiece
June 11, 2026
Taiwan-listed technology firm Ennoconn Corp said on Wednesday it has launched a takeover bid for Austria-based Kontron, offering 23.50 euros per share to all its shareholders.
June 10, 2026
A U.S. doctor who was transferred to a Czech hospital from Uganda last month as a precaution after having contact with a patient with Ebola has been released and is on his
June 10, 2026
Italy's competition authority on Wednesday slapped a €7 million ($8.1 million) fine on Philip Morris' Italian unit over allegedly misleading marketing for non-combustion
June 10, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin told top officials on Wednesday that there are grounds to expect a cut in the central bank's key interest rate when it meets next week, and
June 10, 2026
By Ali Sawafta TAYBEH, West Bank, June 10 - Israeli settlers obstructed Palestinians putting out a large blaze near a Christian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank late on Tuesday, a local
June 10, 2026
Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is looking to take over an existing factory in southern Europe for its second assembly plant on the continent, with
June 10, 2026
Europe's STOXX 600 ended a choppy session little changed on Wednesday, as investors weighed a renewed flare-up in tensions
June 10, 2026
Love nature? Got $28 million? A Swarovski family trust is selling this private island in Venice lagoon
June 10, 2026
Mauricio Pochettino has been blunt about American soccer talent
June 10, 2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday that German and French defence ministers will jointly outline a reworked collaboration project between the two countries
June 10, 2026
Germany's ILA air show, among Europe's premier aerospace showcases, opened on Wednesday under the twin shadows of the Iran war and
June 10, 2026
Staring at the burned out shell of his Belfast home, Jamie Corry said he would never get over the sight of watching his house go up in
June 10, 2026
At the French Open, puppy love nearly outshined the tennis at Roland Garros. CNN's Don Riddell looks at the canine phenomenon helping players and fans smile.
June 10, 2026
The European Union is set to fulfil its side of the EU-U.S. trade deal through a vote in parliament next week, a senior lawmaker said on Wednesday, while expressing
June 10, 2026
Germany's ILA air show, among Europe's premier aerospace showcases, opened on Wednesday under the twin shadows of the Iran war and
June 10, 2026
Russian investigators said on Wednesday that they had arrested at least two suspects behind a car bombing in Moscow, detaining teenagers who the domestic security service
June 10, 2026
Paramount Skydance Corp's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, backed by Gulf sovereign wealth funds, is under European Union subsidy scrutiny,
June 10, 2026
The world's top automotive supplier, Robert Bosch GmbH, is on track to meet its financial targets this year despite new challenges emerging, including possible supply chain
June 10, 2026
Ukrainian forces struck the Russian-occupied port of Mariupol, Kyiv said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of drone attacks on logistics across a critical
June 10, 2026
Airbus is increasingly looking to Sweden's Saab as a preferred future partner as the collapse of a Franco-German
June 10, 2026
Only 11% of Europeans across 15 countries view the United States as an ally, a historic low and down from 16% half a year ago and 22% in November 2024, according to a survey
June 10, 2026
U.K. leaders have called for calm after the arrest of a Sudanese man accused of a stabbing in Belfast sparked anti-immigration protests
June 09, 2026
A series of long-range Ukrainian attacks hit targets deep inside Russia, part of Kyiv’s efforts to raise the costs of the war for the Kremlin by striking energy facilities and military industries
June 10, 2026
UK's FTSE 100 closed higher on Wednesday with energy and consumer staples stocks providing a lift, though the index remained stuck near three-week lows as investors monitored a
June 10, 2026
Residents in Russian-controlled Crimea were grappling with gasoline rationing on Wednesday after Ukrainian drone attacks constricted supplies from Russia, a
June 10, 2026
Germany's economy is likely to slip into a technical recession this year as an energy price shock triggered by the war in Iran derails a fragile recovery, the DIW economic
June 10, 2026
Italian industrial output unexpectedly rose in April from the previous month, data showed on Wednesday, posting a 0.5% increase that marked the third
June 10, 2026
At Birdwhistles Guesthouse, in a rustic two-storey wooden barn in the Latvian forest 50 km from the Russian border, all eight
June 10, 2026
Greece's parliament approved legislation late on Tuesday to fast-track deportation of rejected asylum seekers and allow their transfer to "return hubs" outside the bloc
June 10, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron will chair a video conference on Thursday involving Group of Seven countries and China over how to address global economic imbalances, the
June 10, 2026
Truckmaker Volvo Group said on Wednesday customer demand and deliveries in Europe are stable at good levels across the business in the second quarter while in
June 10, 2026
Masked men burned families out of their homes in Belfast in a wave of anti-immigrant violence on Tuesday night after a Sudanese man was charged over a
June 09, 2026
German retailers expect the soccer World Cup starting on June 11 to provide a modest boost to sales, though the impact will likely be limited to specific sectors because
June 10, 2026
Last year, lawmaker David Taupiac wrote to France's justice ministry warning about major staffing and operational issues at the Auch prosecutor's office
June 10, 2026
The unique grandeur of the Sagrada Familia means that even those who work and worship at Barcelona’s world famous basilica every day can still be surprised with some fresh wonder
June 10, 2026
The world has just experienced the second-hottest May since records began, as climate change and the developing El Niño weather pattern conspired to push
June 10, 2026
The European Commission has urged Albania to act without delay to ensure it is aligned with EU environmental legislation if it wants to accede to the bloc, a Commission
June 09, 2026
A group of more than 130 people in Barcelona gave a unique welcome to Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday night by forming a human tower
June 10, 2026
Iron Age woman likely had her brains scooped out before burial, study suggests
June 10, 2026
The U.S. military says it has carried out strikes against Iran following the crash of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter off the coast of Oman that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic
June 09, 2026
Benfica says its coach José Mourinho has agreed to return to Real Madrid, which earlier announced that it had parted ways with coach Álvaro Arbeloa
June 10, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is presiding over a youth rally in Barcelona
June 10, 2026
Britain, Canada, France and Norway announced new coordinated sanctions on Tuesday against Israeli networks involved in
June 09, 2026
A Tunisian court sentenced prominent journalist Khaoula Boukrim to four years in prison in absentia, she said on Tuesday, in a ruling critics say highlights a growing crackdown on
June 09, 2026
The European Union should discuss the option of temporarily limiting some voting rights of the bloc’s future new members and creating more rule-of-law safeguards, Germany,
June 10, 2026
Pope Leo spoke in Catalan, a language key to the region's identity, as he arrived in Barcelona on Tuesday for the second stop of a week-long tour of
June 09, 2026
Charlotte train stabbing federal case delayed over suspect’s mental competency
June 10, 2026
Europe faces a widening €1.4 trillion ($1.62 trillion) annual investment gap that risks holding back its economic objectives including energy transition, the European
June 09, 2026
Britain said on Tuesday that a law to crack down on proxies acting for states deemed to be hostile such as Iran was expected to come into force next month, as it steps up
June 09, 2026
Bulgaria's newly appointed defence minister, Dimitar Stoyanov, said on Tuesday his country would no longer provide arms to Ukraine and urged Moscow and Kyiv to sit down at
June 09, 2026
Meta Platforms has been ordered by EU antitrust regulators to give rival AI chatbots such as OpenAI free access to WhatsApp while they continue to
June 09, 2026
European Union regulators have ordered Meta Platforms to restore access to WhatsApp for rival AI chatbot makers
June 09, 2026
A Miami federal judge on Monday ordered Donald Trump's lawyers to explain why they should not be penalized for missing a Friday deadline to respond to the BBC's motion to dismiss
June 09, 2026
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan has been suspended pending a vote by member states on his fate, the court's
June 09, 2026
Consumers in Britain increased their spending in May after reducing it in April, but their expenditure on travel dropped for a third month in a sign of caution over the
June 09, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had a "positive" conversation with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and praised what he called their
June 09, 2026
The Confederation of British Industry cut its forecast for the country's economic growth on Tuesday and predicted unemployment would rise to its highest in more than a
June 09, 2026
Ukraine has signed a drone deal with Latvia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday as he met with Latvian Prime Minister
June 09, 2026
European shares surrendered early gains on Tuesday to close lower for a third straight session, led by declines in commodity-
June 09, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Nordic and Baltic leaders at summit in Estonia amid tensions over Ukrainian drones straying into the region
June 09, 2026
Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region killed a pregnant woman and two other people, Ukrainian officials said on
June 09, 2026
German exports rose unexpectedly by 0.9% in April compared with the previous month, data from the federal statistics office showed on Tuesday.
June 09, 2026
German industrial production rose less than expected in April and economists said the outlook for Europe's largest economy remains weak, despite an unexpected
June 09, 2026
There are currently no plans for a telephone call between U.S.
June 09, 2026
EU regulators slammed Apple on Tuesday for blaming EU tech rules for its decision not to roll out its upgraded
June 09, 2026
Italian prosecutors put Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir under investigation over the treatment of activists who were part of a Gaza flotilla last
June 09, 2026
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said he is not seeing any demand for cancellations of jet orders despite recent turmoil that has left the airline industry battered, speaking at
June 09, 2026
A judge on Tuesday upheld a decision to place the Italian arm of U.S. builder Caddell Construction under judicial control, as it faces an investigation into
June 09, 2026
Pope Leo's visit to Spain's Canary Islands, which have struggled to absorb a surge in irregular migration over the past decade,
June 09, 2026
Rare footage of Mediterranean great white shark captured by ghost diver
June 09, 2026
Apple and the European Union are blaming each other for delaying the rollout of Apple's Siri AI app to European users
June 09, 2026
Dubbed "Leonardo's Ferry," a cable-guided vessel offers commuters a peaceful five-minute ride across northern Italy's Adda River
June 09, 2026
Pope Leo XIV will bridge 1,000 years of church history Wednesday when he visits a medieval monastery on a mountaintop that local Catholics consider sacred and then celebrates Mass at Barcelona’s famous Sagrada Familia Basilica
June 09, 2026
Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools from the next academic year as part of a broad reversal on the use of screens in classrooms
June 09, 2026
The embattled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has been suspended from his duties after the court’s oversight body referred Karim Khan for disciplinary proceedings
June 09, 2026
The Vatican says that Pope Leo XIV has met with six survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Madrid and vowed to consider their suggestions for how the Catholic Church can improve its response to the crisis
June 08, 2026
Italy's top banking group Intesa Sanpaolo made a €30.6 billion ($35 billion) unsolicited cash-and-share bid on Monday to
June 08, 2026
French Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday he had told public prosecutors to review 70,000 ongoing allegations of violence against minors, after an outcry over
June 08, 2026
Albania will plough on with a luxury resort planned by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner on a remote stretch of Balkan coast despite persistent
June 08, 2026
The EU wants to target fewer, clearer goals at the world's annual climate summit in November, building alliances in advance to avoid a repeat of last year's
June 08, 2026
A pop-up art show featuring contemporary works is set to open at the German president's official residency this week before renovations begin
June 08, 2026
Europe's push to cut its reliance on U.S.
June 08, 2026
Spain's lawmakers have given Pope Leo XIV a lengthy standing ovation after his historic address to parliament
June 08, 2026
Poland's prime minister called for solidarity and talks between Warsaw and Kyiv on Monday after diplomatic relations deteriorated over the naming of a Ukrainian army unit
June 08, 2026
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has claimed victory in a general election seen as a test of Russia’s influence
June 08, 2026
Christian Eriksen is in ‘good spirits’ despite on-field collapse during match
June 08, 2026
British home prices will rise less than previously predicted this year and dip in the once flourishing London market as expectations for higher borrowing
June 08, 2026
More than a third of lawmakers from Britain's governing Labour Party signed a letter on Monday calling on the British government to end trade with Israeli
June 08, 2026
Pope Leo told Spain's parliament that escalating conflict, deepening polarization and widespread disregard for human rights had pushed the world into a
June 08, 2026
Pope Leo met on Monday with six survivors of abuse by Catholic clergy in Spain, the Vatican said, as groups of survivors who were not
June 08, 2026
Ukrainian forces have recaptured more than 600 square km of territory so far this year, Ukraine's top military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Monday, the latest sign of
June 08, 2026
Roberto Vannacci's new far-right party, Futuro Nazionale, is fast becoming a political headache for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
June 08, 2026
Wizz Air said on Monday that it would offer Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet across its fleet from next year, becoming the first European ultra-low-cost carrier to do so.
June 08, 2026
Pope Leo calls war a ‘painful defeat’ of negotiations as Israel and Iran trade worst strikes in months
June 08, 2026
A fall in Hungary's inflation and risk premia has likely lowered the interest rate level needed for price stability, but the central
June 08, 2026
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti called for cooperation from other parties to end 18 months of political deadlock after his Vetevendosje party came out
June 08, 2026
As soaring jet fuel prices triggered by the Iran war send ripples across the global travel market, a
June 08, 2026
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on "harmful" online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some safer forms of social media
June 08, 2026
Switzerland goes to the polls on June 14 to vote on whether to cap its population at 10 million people in a referendum some have likened
June 08, 2026
Bank of England policymaker Alan Taylor said interest rates at their current level were restrictive for the economy and he did not see the need for an increase to tackle
June 08, 2026
Florentino Perez survived Real Madrid's first genuine presidential contest in two decades in the early hours of Monday, securing four more years at the
June 08, 2026
Pay settlements awarded by British employers held steady in the three months to April despite an increase in the country's minimum wage, according to a survey that was
June 08, 2026
Britain's jobs market cooled rapidly in May after employers put the brakes on permanent hiring after the Iran war heightened cost pressures and uncertainty about the
June 08, 2026
The leaders of Britain, Germany and France said on Sunday they supported a proposal for talks between Ukrainian
June 07, 2026
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday said Russian magnate Roman Abramovich had met him in Kyiv and offered to take a message to the Kremlin on peace prospects, but the
June 08, 2026
Airbus SE has been notifying some customers of delays on A320neo series jets that are due to be delivered in 2027 and 2028, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar
June 08, 2026
The leaders of Britain, Germany and France said on Sunday they supported a proposal for talks between Ukrainian
June 08, 2026
Prime Minister Albin Kurti's party won Kosovo's parliamentary election on Sunday, the Balkan country's third in just 18 months, but fell short of the
June 07, 2026
The White House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, the Telegraph reported on Sunday.
June 07, 2026
Moldova's President Maia Sandu said the war in neighbouring Ukraine showed that her country badly needed high-technology interceptor drones and new
June 08, 2026
The leaders of the U.K., Ukraine, France and Germany discussed the “urgent need” to ramp up production of weapons to combat Russia’s powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missiles in a meeting in London on Sunday
June 07, 2026
The ruling party of Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti appears to have won most votes in an early parliamentary election
June 07, 2026
Kimi Antonelli’s rise to the top of Formula 1 continued in bizarre circumstances as the 19-year-old Mercedes driver won a much-delayed Monaco Grand Prix
June 07, 2026
Alexander Zverev is no longer one of the best players never to win a major title
June 07, 2026
Dua Lipa and Callum Turner throw a big Italian wedding
June 08, 2026
Ukraine’s deadly strikes are bringing the war home to Russians, and discontent is bubbling up
June 07, 2026
Italy’s ITA Airways will decide within the next eight weeks whether to sue aerospace supplier RTX’s Pratt & Whitney due to engine problems that
June 07, 2026
Armenians are voting in a parliamentary election as the government seeks to loosen ties with Moscow and increase cooperation with the West
June 07, 2026
Britain’s deputy prime minister said Sunday that he told U.S. Vice President JD Vance he was wrong to blame immigration for the death of a university student who was handcuffed as he lay dying from a stab wound
June 07, 2026
Israeli settlers could face further sanctions in coming days in protest at the escalation of illegal settlements in the West Bank and a surge in violence by settlers against
June 07, 2026
Over a million people filled the streets near one of Madrid's main squares on Sunday to join Pope Leo for an outdoor Mass, likely to be the
June 07, 2026
Armenians voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as a test of the government's efforts to forge a peace deal after a crushing military defeat
June 07, 2026
An opera by a Ukrainian composer that premiered in Kyiv this week tells the story of two mothers and a grandmother who risked their lives to travel 3,000 miles
June 07, 2026
Russian forces deliberately struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine's Chornobyl power plant, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, in an "
June 07, 2026
It is time for Europe to give up its long-standing political resistance to joint debt issuance, as a large-scale safe asset would bolster the bloc's sovereignty and
June 07, 2026
Bouygues Telecom, Orange and Free-iliad Group said on Saturday they
June 07, 2026
Divisions, migration and Bad Bunny. What Pope Leo’s Spain visit tells us about his priorities
June 06, 2026
Pope Leo XIV acknowledges that he's competing with another VIP in Madrid this weekend
June 06, 2026
Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva was already a tennis phenom at age 15
June 06, 2026
Pope Leo on Saturday urged global leaders to stop dividing their electorates with "sterile simplifications," calling on them to listen
June 06, 2026
King Charles III, Queen Camilla and other senior British royals were among guests attending the wedding of Charles' nephew, Peter Phillips
June 06, 2026
King Charles and senior British royals gathered at a village in south-west England on Saturday to celebrate the wedding of Princess Anne's businessman son, Peter
June 06, 2026
Pope Leo may have traded his life in Chicago for the ornate apartments at the Vatican's apostolic palace, but he still plans to root for
June 06, 2026
U.S.
June 06, 2026
Armenian authorities arrested six candidates for a pro-Russian opposition party on Saturday, a day before they were due to stand in general elections,
June 06, 2026
Lithuania's ruling Social Democrat party voted on Saturday to remove the populist Nemunas Dawn, whose leader was sentenced for antisemitism, from the
June 06, 2026
Residents of St. Petersburg have been told to stay indoors after a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack targeted the city
June 06, 2026
Bernadette Chirac, the steel-willed former first lady of France, has died
June 06, 2026
Armenia's parliamentary elections Sunday will focus on its geopolitical future as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan seeks closer ties with the EU and the U.S. That is despite Armenia's longstanding relations with Russia that are favored by most of the country's opposition parties
June 06, 2026
By Vladimir Soldatkin and Olesya Astakhova ST.
June 06, 2026
Putin rebuffs Zelensky’s call for face-to-face talks, saying there is ‘no point’
June 05, 2026
Pope Leo XIV’s weeklong visit to Spain will bring him to a once-staunchly Catholic country that has long been in the throes of waning religious practice
June 06, 2026
Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, insists voters will support him despite controversies about his past
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June 06, 2026
UK’s Starmer hits out at people ‘trying to interfere in our democracy,’ after Vance blames Nowak death on mass migration
June 06, 2026
Pope Leo will meet with survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy during his week-long visit to Spain, the Vatican said on Friday.
June 06, 2026
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office has condemned comments by U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who blames immigration for the death of a university student
June 06, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's open letter offering face-to-face peace talks to end the war in Ukraine was addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin but
June 05, 2026
Russia accused Ukraine on Friday of killing Azerbaijani crew on board two cargo vessels headed for a Russian port, in a drone attack which Baku said had killed at least five
June 05, 2026
Dash cam video shows wrong-way driver on Interstate 295 in Portland, Maine
June 06, 2026
A firestorm of recrimination rages in France over the death of an 11-year-old girl named Lyhanna
June 05, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a proposal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a face-to-face meeting, saying he sees “no point” in it
June 05, 2026
Actor Anthony Head, known for his roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” has died at 72
June 05, 2026
Serena Williams’ comeback will include a stop in Berlin this month
June 05, 2026
Two Romanian men whom British prosecutors said were acting as proxies for the Iranian government were on Friday found guilty of stabbing a journalist working for a Persian-
June 05, 2026
A British man on Friday pleaded guilty to helping the perpetrator of a deadly attack on a Manchester synagogue in October to carry out earlier reconnaissance on a UK defence
June 05, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he currently saw no reason to meet Volodymyr Zelenskiy after the
June 05, 2026
French anti-terrorism prosecutors said on Friday they had opened a preliminary investigation into suspected torture and war crimes over the alleged mistreatment by Israeli
June 05, 2026
Commerzbank said on Friday that shares equivalent to 7.85% of its capital have so far been tendered under UniCredit's €40 billion takeover bid, as the two
June 05, 2026
The European Commission is weighing legislation that could force companies in sensitive sectors to cut reliance on single suppliers - notably in China
June 05, 2026
The U.S. military is waiting for clarity from the Pentagon following President Donald Trump’s back-and-forth on troop levels in Europe
June 05, 2026
Far from its European homeland, Bosnia and Herzegovina has zealous fans in the American Midwest as it prepares for its second World Cup
June 05, 2026
A father of six has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for a rape 23 years ago, which another man was wrongly convicted of
June 05, 2026
Norway rejects a U.S. assessment that the Nordic country has failed to prevent forced labour, its foreign minister told Reuters, adding that the allegation was unfounded and should
June 05, 2026
A sea drone self-destructed near an oil terminal in Romania's Black Sea port of Constanta on Friday, without causing casualties, as Ukraine said Russia
June 05, 2026
Switzerland has agreed a military cooperation plan with neighbouring France for the upcoming gathering of world leaders at the Group of 7 summit in mid-June, the government
June 05, 2026
Italy appealed on Friday for the release of two Italian pro-Palestinian campaigners detained in eastern Libya who, along with eight other activists, had been
June 05, 2026
Finnish police investigating last year's damage to two subsea telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea said on Friday that four people are suspected of a crime, and that
June 05, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will hold talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on
June 05, 2026
A Ukrainian maritime drone has exploded at a Black Sea port in Romania, with three others self-detonating outside the port, according to Romanian authorities
June 05, 2026
Ukraine and Russia each exchanged 185 service personnel in the latest prisoner of war swap on Friday, officials in both countries said.
June 05, 2026
Armenia holds a parliamentary election on Sunday that pits the governing Civil Contract party, which is pursuing closer ties with the West, against an
June 05, 2026
Istanbul ‘corn star’ becomes tourist attraction
June 05, 2026
Montenegro is on track to join the European Union by 2028, according to EU leaders and the country's president
June 05, 2026
A Russian amusement park in St Petersburg has named one of its rides the "Oreshnik", after a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that Moscow has fired three
June 05, 2026
The European Union must show it is willing and able to take in new members, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday
June 05, 2026
A Swedish court has ruled that the seizure of a cargo vessel in the Baltic Sea was lawful and that the ship can be handed over to Ukraine, where it is suspected of
June 05, 2026
A body discovered in southwestern France was identified on Friday as that of a missing 11-year-old girl whose case
June 05, 2026
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday denied knowing about an alleged plot to derail investigations into corruption cases dogging his Socialist Party, saying he was
June 05, 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor sublet cottages on Royal Lodge estate while he paid peppercorn rent, report says
June 05, 2026
Hungary's government will submit to parliament next week anti-corruption legislation needed to release billions of euros worth of suspended European
June 05, 2026
The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) has begun an investigation into the Boeing 787 jetliner whose nose gear collapsed on Thursday at a gate at
June 05, 2026
The United States warned on Friday that it would reconsider its role in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) after the international body overseeing the Balkan country's peace
June 05, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been informed about an open letter from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Izvestia news
June 05, 2026
A Russian drone attack on a dairy factory in a region surrounding the Ukrainian capital Kyiv has killed four people and injured seven more, Ukrainian officials said on Friday.
June 05, 2026
Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on a waiting list for a lung transplant after a significant deterioration in her health that likely gave
June 05, 2026
Hungary's government will stop issuing worker visas to employees from the Philippines, Georgia and Armenia from Friday, a government spokeswoman said, calling the move a
June 05, 2026
Apollo Global Management and Britain's Bodycote have ended talks over a £1.52 billion ($2 billion) takeover proposal, they said on Friday, sending shares of the
June 05, 2026
Switzerland will continue trade talks with the United States while rejecting allegations that it failed to combat imports of goods made with forced labour, the government
June 05, 2026
Russian nationalists dismissed on Friday an open letter penned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to President Vladimir Putin as a malicious public
June 05, 2026
Norway’s crown princess on waiting list for lung transplant
June 05, 2026
A report by Britain's public spending watchdog shows that the former Prince Andrew made money by subletting cottages on the estate where he lived rent-free for two decades
June 05, 2026
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June 05, 2026
Italy's economy will grow by 0.7% this year, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, trimming a previous forecast of 0.8% made in December.
June 05, 2026
Britain is running out of time to boost its defences in response to the threat posed by recent Russian actions, the country's military chief said on Friday,
June 05, 2026
World food prices slipped in May from a revised April level, with vegetable oil prices falling for the first time this year while cereals and sugar
June 05, 2026
British businesses expect to increase prices less quickly in the year ahead than they did in April as some of the initial energy price shock caused by the
June 05, 2026
European shares slipped on Friday and ended the week lower, as uncertainty about Middle East peace efforts kept investors on
June 05, 2026
The European Central Bank is expected to hike interest rates on Thursday,
June 05, 2026
Setting out as a trio of ambitious young former Goldman Sachs bankers, Partners Group rose from plucky startup to become a global player in private equity,
June 05, 2026
British house prices unexpectedly fell in May, according to data from mortgage lender Halifax on Friday, which represented the latest sign of a cooling in the market as
June 05, 2026
German carmakers lost ground to competitors at the start of the year as tariffs, conflict and technological upheaval weighed on sales, according to an EY analysis warning of
June 05, 2026
President Vladimir Putin says Russia will strengthen its air defenses to counter recent Ukrainian drone attacks
June 04, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook The drawdown in tech stocks that has followed a narrow earnings miss at U.S. chipmaker Broadcom deepened in Asia on Friday,
June 05, 2026
Pope Leo XIV will visit two flashpoints of migration from Africa to Europe over less than a month starting on June 11
June 05, 2026
A rare Edith Wharton short story has just been published
June 05, 2026
The House has passed a bill to aid Ukraine and sanction key segments of the Russian economy
June 04, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy published an open letter to President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in which he proposed the two leaders meet to agree an end to more than
June 05, 2026
EU ministers on Thursday broadly supported a proposal to limit access to temporary protection for Ukrainian men of military age, Sweden’s migration minister said.
June 05, 2026
Labour mayor Andy Burnham signalled on Thursday he would run in any leadership race against Prime Minister Keir Starmer, saying that if he won a local election later this
June 05, 2026
President Vladimir Putin stuck to his hardline stance on the war in Ukraine on Thursday and said his troops were advancing on the battlefield
June 05, 2026
Sipping tea every night has helped Maja Chwalinska of Poland become just the second qualifier to reach a Grand Slam singles final in the Open Era
June 04, 2026
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June 05, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pledged on Thursday that Ukraine would keep to a clear timetable in talks on joining the European Union and in sticking to its obligations with the 27-
June 05, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for face-to-face negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin
June 05, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on Thursday about the Ukraine war, compromises on peace agreed with U.S.
June 05, 2026
The White House's top Europe expert is set to leave in the coming days, part of a staff shake-up that some sources
June 04, 2026
The man Germany's far-right AfD hopes will become the party's first state premier took aim at the domestic intelligence service, which he accused on
June 04, 2026
Slovenia's parliament on Thursday approved Prime Minister Janez Jansa's centre-right government, which has pledged tax cuts, targeted spending and an anti-corruption
June 04, 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday said Elon Musk should stop interfering in British politics, after the billionaire X owner posted on his platform
June 04, 2026
The international body overseeing Bosnia's peace process on Thursday failed to agree on a candidate for a new envoy to replace Germany's Christian
June 04, 2026
Steven Seagal, Candace Owens and Trump’s ballroom commissioner appear at Russia’s top economic forum
June 05, 2026
Missouri town goes all out for Netherlands national team before World Cup training
June 05, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in May Ukraine would buy 20 of Saab's Gripen E fighter jets and Sweden will gift another 16 of an older
October 22, 2025
Switzerland will deploy around 4,000 troops inside its territory to reinforce security as world leaders gather for the G7 summit in neighboring France
June 04, 2026
Swiss alternative asset manager Partners Group on Thursday flagged more withdrawal requests from its funds while Blackstone said it capped
June 04, 2026
Romania's centrist President Nicusor Dan designated his adviser Eugen Tomac as prime minister on Thursday, seeking to end a political crisis that has stalled policymaking
June 04, 2026
Victim cut in half in "horrifying" Massachusetts murder 26 years ago finally identified
June 04, 2026
Airbus delivered 81 aircraft in May, up sharply from a year earlier, partly due to the release of planes caught up in a regulatory stand-off with China, industry sources said
June 04, 2026
Hezbollah rejected a ceasefire plan agreed by the Lebanese and Israeli governments in U.S.-mediated talks, as
June 04, 2026
Lawmakers in Cyprus re-elected Annita Demetriou as speaker of parliament on Thursday in a vote seen as an early glimpse of emerging partnerships ahead of a presidential
June 04, 2026
Germany and France have proposed giving aspiring European Union members more opportunities to join EU programmes and access the single market before joining the bloc,
June 04, 2026
New details revealed of Epstein assistant’s abuse allegations as GOP lawmakers call for DOJ investigation
June 04, 2026
Adriano Panatta was expecting to award the French Open trophy to Jannik Sinner 50 years after his own triumph in Paris
June 04, 2026
Universal Music Group said on Thursday it has repurchased some
June 04, 2026
Russia accused NATO on Thursday of squeezing Serbia "like a boa constrictor", citing a joint military exercise taking place there as evidence of an attempt to subjugate the
June 04, 2026
When Anna Yegoyan first moved from the Armenian capital to the northern mountain town of Ijevan, she had to reach it along bumpy, potholed
June 04, 2026
When Air Montenegro's passenger planes took to the skies earlier this year, they were branded with a new slogan: "28 by 28 - The Next EU Member".
June 04, 2026
Several people were killed when a small plane crashed on Thursday in the northwestern Croatian region of Istria, near the Adriatic town of Medulin, state news agency Hina reported,
June 04, 2026
After Ukraine said it will make the Gripen the backbone of its air force, the Swedish fighter jet is finally set to be tested in the
June 04, 2026
Brazil has expressed interest in purchasing 20 additional Gripen model E and F fighter jets from Sweden's Saab, Swedish Defence Minister Pal Jonson said on Thursday.
June 04, 2026
Acclaimed Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi has died at 56
June 04, 2026
Marjane Satrapi, French Iranian artist and author behind ‘Persepolis,’ dies at 56
June 04, 2026
Kosovo will hold a parliamentary election on Sunday, its third in just 18 months, after its political parties failed to reach a compromise on choosing a
June 04, 2026
Amazon on Thursday unveiled an upgraded AI-powered mobile robot for its warehouses that can respond to conversational prompts, as part of a €10
June 04, 2026
A senior member of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) met one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's top advisers as well as the head of energy group Gazprom
June 04, 2026
The European Union is preparing an economic support package worth an initial amount of €50 million ($58.1 million) for Armenia after Russia hit Armenia with some trade
June 04, 2026
The European Commission will delay the introduction of a new market risk capital framework for banks for three years to see how the U.S. and Britain implement the same
June 04, 2026
Dozens of artists at this year’s Venice Biennale are threatening legal action if their names aren't removed from a visitor voting ballot
June 04, 2026
Activity in Britain's construction sector slowed at the sharpest pace in six years last month as economic uncertainty and rising inflation triggered by the Iran war led to a
June 04, 2026
Hungarian prosecutors have dropped charges against Budapest's liberal Mayor Gergely Karacsony over his role in organising an LGBTQ+ rights rally in 2025, prosecutors said
June 04, 2026
European shares rose on Thursday as oil prices eased, although investors remained cautious on whether the latest developments in
June 04, 2026
Sweden's centre-left opposition looks likely to win power in the parliamentary election in September, ousting the right-wing government, according to an opinion poll
June 04, 2026
Serbia's security agency warned President Aleksandar Vucic not to travel to Montenegro on Friday for a summit with European Union and Balkan leaders, citing security
June 04, 2026
As the European Union unveiled its technology sovereignty package on Wednesday, a top official posted in glee: "Today is Tech Liberation Day".
June 04, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Gregor Stuart Hunter Markets are in risk-off mode again as traders grapple with conflicting headlines: renewed fighting between the U.S. and
June 04, 2026
Victor Wembanyama got blessed by nuns before the game, got the loudest ovation when the starters were announced, pumped his fist to the crowd a few times and generally seemed to enjoy his first taste of the NBA Finals
June 04, 2026
Lebanon and Israel said on Wednesday that they had agreed to the implementation of a ceasefire following negotiations in Washington aimed at ending the conflict that
June 04, 2026
The Confederation of British Industry called on Britain's government not to treat business as a cash cow or accuse companies of price-gouging as the
June 04, 2026
All members of the European Union agreed to open talks with Ukraine and Moldova on the first cluster of issues in their accession talks, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko
June 04, 2026
Security agencies from the "Five Eyes" alliance which includes the U.S. and Britain issued a warning on Wednesday about Chinese spies aggressively using online job platforms
June 04, 2026
EU steel exports to the U.S. have fallen by 34% since Washington hiked tariffs to 50%, with higher duties on derivative products such as washing
June 04, 2026
A judge in Amsterdam has rejected an appeal by a Jewish organization to block two performances by rapper Ye, finding the concerts are not a threat to public order
June 04, 2026
Meet the surprise semifinalists at this year’s ridiculous French Open
June 04, 2026
Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka wasted a lead of a set and two breaks in a 3-6, 7-5, 6-0 loss to Diana Shnaider in the French Open quarterfinals
June 03, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said in a post on Truth Social that he would travel to a Group of Seven leaders' summit in France.
June 04, 2026
Germany's leading role in rallying support for Ukraine and its close relations with Israel may have cost Berlin the chance of a seat on the U.N.
June 03, 2026
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday talks with Denmark and Greenland about using the island for collective defense are "in a good place."
June 03, 2026
For Ukrainian survivors of Russian drone and missile attacks, each air raid warning can be a source of fresh distress.
June 03, 2026
Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Wednesday that Hungary and Ukraine reached an agreement on the rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine, which could allow approval
June 04, 2026
Portugal and Austria have defeated Germany for seats on the powerful but deeply divided U.N. Security Council in a hotly contested race after intense campaigning
June 03, 2026
Rejoining the European Union would not "magically solve" Britain's issues, even if the country's long-term future lies with Europe, business and trade
June 03, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump will attend the NATO meeting of heads of state that is taking place in Turkey in early July, U.S.
June 03, 2026
The filmmaker Wim Wenders has pulled his 1975 movie “The Wrong Move” due to a nude scene featuring a then-13-year-old Nastassja Kinski
June 03, 2026
Ukraine's stepped-up strikes deep inside Russia enable Kyiv to negotiate the end of the war on an equal footing, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, just after one of the
June 03, 2026
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday warned young Russians that they would probably die if they sign up to join Russia's war in Ukraine.
June 03, 2026
The U.S. expects European NATO allies and Canada to swiftly increase the number of manned and unmanned aircraft and ships they contribute to the alliance's defence plans
June 03, 2026
Ferrari says Charles Leclerc has signed a new contract with the Formula 1 team “for the coming seasons.”
June 03, 2026
Ukrainian drones strike St. Petersburg, hours before ‘Putin’s Davos’ opens
June 03, 2026
Someone stole Maurizio Cattelan’s notorious banana artwork — and the museum isn’t amused
June 03, 2026
Britain's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it had summoned Russia's ambassador after a
June 03, 2026
European Union leaders are pushing back against reliance on American and Asian tech companies
June 03, 2026
The body overseeing Bosnia's peace process meets on Wednesday to choose a new envoy to replace Germany's Christian Schmidt, who quit under what he said
June 03, 2026
Romania's foreign minister said on Wednesday several allies were preparing to reinforce air defence capabilities along NATO’s eastern flank after a drone
June 03, 2026
Fiat will start sales of its Grizzly mid-sized SUV and Grizzly Fastback model in the second half of this year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with plans to expand to
June 03, 2026
Russia is pummeling major Ukrainian cities in an effort to sustain a sputtering war effort marked by a struggle to maintain momentum on the battlefield, where
June 03, 2026
Britain’s interior minister accused activists of hijacking a teenager's murder to stir up violence after police were attacked at a protest
June 03, 2026
The European Central Bank is set to raise its deposit rate to 2.25% on June 11, with another increase likely in September, as it
June 03, 2026
The European Union has proposed that the bloc's Aspides naval mission take "the primary role" in clearing mines in the Strait of Hormuz "when conditions
June 03, 2026
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned violent protests over the case of an 18-year-old who was handcuffed as he lay dying after his
June 03, 2026
The European Parliament will switch to French search engine Qwant from Google, it said on Wednesday, underscoring Europe's push to reduce its reliance on
June 03, 2026
Italian prosecutors on Wednesday cleared a presidential pardon granted to a former showgirl, who was close to late Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, saying fresh checks found
June 03, 2026
The Swiss government on Wednesday rejected U.S. findings on how dozens of economies, including Switzerland, deal with goods produced by forced labour, a probe that prompted
June 03, 2026
European automotive, construction, metals, chemicals and transport sectors could lose up to 1.3 million jobs this year as a result of a surge in energy prices caused by
June 03, 2026
In a bid to end its decades-long wait to win a second World Cup, England has put its fate in the hands of a German
June 03, 2026
British services firms suffered a small fall in activity in May as the strains of the Iran war pushed up their costs sharply and hit
June 03, 2026
European shares slipped on Wednesday as escalating Middle East tensions and fresh jitters over private markets pushed investors
June 03, 2026
It is not a given that the current inflation shock facing the euro zone will be more benign than the 2022 episode, as some initial conditions flag larger inflationary
June 03, 2026
Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine of killing eight civilians and of wounding 11 more in a drone attack on a passenger bus travelling in a Russian-controlled part of the
June 03, 2026
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called on Wednesday for dialogue between Ukraine and Poland to help defuse tensions after Kyiv renamed an army unit after nationalist
June 03, 2026
Spain's service sector activity stabilised in May as activity and sales returned to growth after April's decline, a business survey showed on Wednesday.
June 03, 2026
The global economic outlook hinges on how long the war in the Middle East lasts, with recession in some countries and sharply higher inflation a real
June 03, 2026
France's services sector contracted at its sharpest pace in 5-1/2 years in May as weaker demand and rising costs due to the Iran war hammered businesses, a survey showed on
June 03, 2026
Cost pressures in Italy's service sector hit a 40-month high in May as the impact of the conflict in the Middle East became more acute, a survey showed on Wednesday.
June 03, 2026
Hungary's governing Tisza party has submitted a bill to parliament to abolish an organisation set up by former Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government that stigmatized
June 03, 2026
Euro zone private sector activity shrank at the fastest rate in 18 months in May as waning demand for goods and services — a key gauge of economic health — dragged output
June 03, 2026
Meta Platforms lost its fight on Wednesday against the EU's labelling of its Messenger app as a powerful 'gatekeeper', which places
June 03, 2026
Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has been reappointed to his position, the new government said as it prepared to take office on Wednesday.
June 03, 2026
Any new U.S. tariffs on European Union goods on top of the rates agreed last year would be unacceptable, senior EU lawmaker said on Wednesday, rejecting U.S. claims the EU
June 03, 2026
Germany's service sector contracted for a second straight month in May as subdued demand and high energy and other costs due to the war in the Middle East weighed on
June 03, 2026
President Vladimir Putin has read long-term ally Armenia the riot act: persist in wanting to join the European Union and you can kiss goodbye to cheap
June 03, 2026
Pope Leo heads to Spain on Saturday for a week-long tour, his first visit to an EU country outside Italy, which will culminate with the pontiff
June 03, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Notwithstanding fresh hostilities in the Middle East, AI shares drove equity markets in Asia to new records on Wednesday.
June 03, 2026
Russia downed 50 drones over the Leningrad region northwest of Moscow overnight and continues to repel the suspected Ukrainian attacks, Governor Alexander
June 03, 2026
Swiss voters look set to reject a referendum proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million people, according to an opinion poll published on Wednesday.
June 03, 2026
British police faced a national backlash on Tuesday over the inflammatory case of an 18-year-old student who was handcuffed
June 02, 2026
Fatima Yousufi and Mona Amini escaped the Taliban and found refuge in Australia with dreams of playing international soccer
June 02, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on Tuesday inaugurated a memorial in Paris to honour the victims of the 1994 genocide against the
June 03, 2026
Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles early on Tuesday, killing 23 people and wounding 130, and
June 02, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian forces could again launch a massive attack on Ukraine on Tuesday evening.
June 03, 2026
The opening of the temporary installation by French artist JR "La Caverne du Pont Neuf" in Paris has been postponed after the giant cave inflated around the capital's oldest
June 03, 2026
Russia slams key Ukrainian cities in one of deadliest offensives in months
June 02, 2026
Sweden should introduce a minimum age of 15 for the use of social media, a government-appointed commission recommended on Tuesday.
June 02, 2026
Paramount Skydance Corp has sought EU antitrust approval for its acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a European Commission filing showed on Tuesday.
June 02, 2026
The future presence of U.S. troops in Lithuania is "under review", the Baltic country's defence minister said on Tuesday, adding that although Washington
June 02, 2026
Russian forces launched a massive aerial attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, and officials say at least 22 civilians were killed and 138 were wounded
June 02, 2026
Germany's Federal Employment Agency (BA) faces a deficit of more than €8 billion euros ($9.3 billion) this year, more than twice the shortfall previously planned, according
June 02, 2026
Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors said on Tuesday they had opened a criminal investigation against General Gheorghita Vlad, the Army's Chief of Staff, on suspicion
June 02, 2026
Mette Frederiksen is set to begin a third term as Denmark’s prime minister by leading a center-left coalition of four parties
June 02, 2026
A right-wing U.S. influencer, a serving U.S. official and a German retail billionaire are due to attend President Vladimir Putin's "
June 02, 2026
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's new centre-left government will resist U.S. pressure over the future of Greenland, tackle
June 02, 2026
Marta Kostyuk, the top clay player this season and a strong supporter of Ukraine, has reached her first major semifinal at the French Open
June 02, 2026
Fancy a summer-long treasure hunt? A $23,000 gold prize awaits in Finland
June 02, 2026
Marta Kostyuk dedicates historic French Open quarterfinal win to ‘the Ukrainian people’
June 02, 2026
Chinese automakers are expanding in Europe, betting on their competitive pricing and advanced technology to break into a market traditionally dominated by European and American
June 02, 2026
Poland wants to ban under-16s from using mobile phones in schools from September 1 and plans to introduce stricter age verification rules to access pornography, Prime
June 02, 2026
A surge in gang-related shootings and bombings over the
June 02, 2026
When a large explosion shook Olha Mudra's apartment block in Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday, it felt like the end of the world.
June 02, 2026
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Tuesday he was ready to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy next week to
June 02, 2026
The U.S. and NATO allies will launch scaled-back drills in the Baltic Sea this week, as conflicts in other regions draw ships away, though the
June 02, 2026
The European Union has agreed on a major overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to increase deportations and establish detention centers abroad
June 02, 2026
Government support in emerging economies affected by the Middle East conflict should be temporary and targeted, the head of the European Bank for
June 02, 2026
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the war in Ukraine had entered a "different paradigm" due to what it called "inhumane acts of terror" carried out by Kyiv's military against
June 02, 2026
Czech police said on Tuesday they had charged four people and an unnamed legal entity for coercing young women to provide erotic content for accounts on OnlyFans and other
June 02, 2026
The rise in the global role of the euro currency has been circumstantial up to now and the bloc needs to act deliberately to carve out a greater market share, European
June 02, 2026
The global role of the euro currency hardly budged last year, disappointing some hopes that erratic economic policy in the United States could give it a big boost, as
June 02, 2026
A European Parliament committee voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to remove EU import duties on many U.S. goods, a step to comply with the trade deal
June 02, 2026
An Estee Lauder merger with Jean Paul Gaultier-owner Puig failed to go through because of the price tag, Stephane de La Faverie, President and CEO of the U.S. cosmetics maker said
June 02, 2026
European shares rose on Tuesday, as a strong forecast from STMicroelectronics boosted technology stocks and investors assessed
June 02, 2026
Euro zone inflation accelerated further last month, driven by energy and services, bolstering the already strong case for a small European Central Bank
June 02, 2026
How to stop Russian drones flying undetected across the Black Sea to attack Ukraine's port city of Odesa?
June 02, 2026
The following are key quotes from European Central Bank policymakers in the run-up to the June 11 policy meeting.
June 02, 2026
When Bassi Konate became mayor of Sarcelles this spring, the independent candidate backed by the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party ended
June 02, 2026
British budget airline easyJet has caught the eye of U.S. investment firm Castlelake for a possible takeover.
June 02, 2026
Only a third of the euro zone's largest companies have indicated they are raising prices in response to the Iran war, a Reuters analysis
June 02, 2026
The U.S. is discussing whether to deploy nuclear weapons in additional European NATO states, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
June 02, 2026
Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka beat Naomi Osaka 7-5, 6-3 to reach the French Open quarterfinals and move one step closer to finally winning the clay-court Grand Slam after losing last year's final to Coco Gauff
June 01, 2026
European Union lawmakers and governments agreed on Monday on new rules allowing countries to send migrants ordered to leave the bloc to centres in third
June 02, 2026
An Iraqi national has pleaded not guilty after being accused of plotting at least 18 attacks in Europe in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran
June 02, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukraine's military was now capable of hitting Russian logistics throughout occupied areas of Ukraine and had created shortages of
June 02, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that warnings of a possible massive Russian strike on Ukraine remained in effect and urged residents to pay special attention to air
June 02, 2026
Denmark's Social Democratic leader Mette Frederiksen said on Monday she has agreed to form a centre-left coalition government, maintaining her grip on
June 02, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov, said on Monday he believed agreeing a deal to end the war against Russia by winter was a "realistic"
June 01, 2026
A former Syrian intelligence chief in the city of Raqqa went on trial in Austria on charges of torture and sexual abuse on Monday over the mistreatment of
June 01, 2026
Community mourns 71-year-old veteran shot and killed on his front porch
June 02, 2026
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces more embarrassment with the release of files about former U.K. ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson
June 01, 2026
Dua Lipa and actor Callum Turner are married, according to local officials in London
June 01, 2026
A Czech court on Monday said German far-right activist Marla-Svenja Liebich, convicted of multiple offences, could be extradited to Germany, where her legal
June 01, 2026
Israel's defence ministry said on Monday France had banned Israeli government officials from a major weapons show in Paris, and had imposed restrictions on companies from
June 01, 2026
The European Union plans to propose strict criteria for cloud computing services in highly critical state tenders that could
June 01, 2026
The outcomes of most of the United Nations' recent COP climate summits have fallen short of the more ambitious action scientists say is needed to address climate change,
June 01, 2026
Britain's government released reams of documents on Monday relating to the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, offering a glimpse into the
June 01, 2026
Shipping executives meeting in Athens on Monday said that any peace deal worked out between the United States and Iran would need to
June 01, 2026
British authorities have blocked a Turkish American streamer Hasan Piker and political commentator Cenk Uygur from entering the U.K. The Home Office said Monday that their electronic travel authorizations were canceled over concerns that their presence might not be conducive to the public good
June 01, 2026
Drivers in Russian-controlled Crimea were grappling with gasoline rationing on Monday after Ukrainian drone attacks constricted road supplies across south-
June 01, 2026
The Swiss economy grew by 0.4% in the first three months of 2026, the government said on Monday, helped by a recovery in the manufacturing sector as the burden of U.S.
June 01, 2026
Britain has blocked Cenk Uygur, a left-wing Turkish-American media personality, and his nephew, Hasan Piker, a U.S. left-wing commentator and influencer, from entering the
June 01, 2026
The economic shock from the Iran war hit European factories last month, suppressing demand for their
June 01, 2026
Poland revives its ‘Highway to Hel’ 666 bus route
June 01, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the prime minister and the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) to ensure access to key medical, information and
June 01, 2026
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Monday his government would launch legal proceedings to dismiss President Tamas Sulyok, an appointee of the previous
June 01, 2026
Britain will not have to pay Rwanda tens of millions of pounds over the cancelled deal to deport asylum seekers to the East African nation, the
June 01, 2026
An international arbitration panel has rejected Rwanda's multimillion-dollar claim linked to a controversial refugee resettlement deal
June 01, 2026
Cost pressures in Italy's manufacturing sector rose for a fifth month running in May, fuelled by the conflict in the Middle East, a survey showed on Monday.
June 01, 2026
Germany's manufacturing sector stalled in May as waning demand and soaring costs linked to the war in the Middle East weighed on activity, a business
June 01, 2026
France's manufacturing sector contracted in May for the first time since November, as the spike in energy prices and transport disruptions resulting from
June 01, 2026
Euro zone consumers kept steady or lowered their inflation expectations in April, a hopeful sign for policymakers that crucial medium-term price bets are not signalling
June 01, 2026
Growth in euro zone manufacturing lost momentum in May as demand for goods stagnated and supply-chain disruptions linked to the Middle East war pushed input costs to their
June 01, 2026
British manufacturers raised their prices at the fastest rate since June 2022 last month in response to a big increase in costs as the Iran war disrupts supply chains,
June 01, 2026
France's navy has intercepted a sanctioned tanker linked to the Russian oil trade in the Atlantic Ocean and ordered the vessel to head for the French
June 01, 2026
Government subsidies to industry have reached their highest level since the global financial crisis, driven largely by China, a report from the Organisation for Economic
June 01, 2026
More than 200 people were injured and one person died in Paris following Paris Saint-Germain's second consecutive Champions League win, the interior ministry said on Sunday,
May 31, 2026
The high-profile fourth-round matchup between top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and fellow four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka on Monday will be the first women’s night match at the French Open in three years
May 31, 2026
Flamingos are flocking to the Venetian Lagoon in record numbers as ecological efforts restore damaged wetlands
May 31, 2026
British house prices fell by 0.6% in May, their first monthly drop since December and growth slowed in annual terms, as economic uncertainty stemming from the war in Iran
June 01, 2026
Spain's manufacturing sector expanded modestly in May, at a slightly slower pace than in April, as disruptions linked to the Middle East conflict worsened supply delays,
June 01, 2026
Thirteen European cloud providers joined forces with a group of EU lawmakers and NGOs on Monday to back the European Commission's drive to cut the region's dependence on
June 01, 2026
Paris Saint-Germain has won back-to-back Champions League titles by beating Arsenal on penalties in a dramatic final in Budapest
May 30, 2026
Paris Saint-Germain has won the Champions League for the second consecutive year after beating Arsenal in a penalty shootout
May 30, 2026
Defending champion Coco Gauff bounced from Roland Garros in another shock upset
May 31, 2026
Turkey's ousted opposition leader Ozgur Ozel showed he can still command strong support on Saturday, drawing a crowd of thousands in Ankara despite a court
May 30, 2026
Thousands of local residents shut down Austria's Brenner motorway on Saturday, a vital north-south corridor through the Alps between Germany and Italy,
May 30, 2026
Ukrainian player Oleksandra Oliynykova has vowed to keep speaking out about the war at home after losing to Russian player Diana Shnaider in the third round of the French Open
May 30, 2026
As the Arsenal party bus pulls into Budapest, PSG lies in wait
May 30, 2026
Ukrainian drone strikes have caused fires at Russian oil facilities, according to Russian officials
May 30, 2026
Liverpool has fired manager Arne Slot at the end of his second season in charge and a year after leading the team to the Premier League title
May 30, 2026
What it’s like to have your nude body auctioned for tens of millions
May 30, 2026
Russia said on Saturday it had recalled its ambassador to Armenia for consultations in protest at its rapprochement with the European Union as a June 7 election nears.
May 30, 2026
Flights were halted for about an hour at Munich Airport in southern Germany on Saturday morning after two pilots reported seeing a drone, airport authorities and police said
May 30, 2026
Voting in parliamentary elections opened in Malta on Saturday, with opinion polls showing the ruling Labour Party on course to win a record-breaking fourth term.
May 30, 2026
Russian intelligence agencies have grown more aggressive in their efforts to steal Western technology and defense secrets as sanctions squeeze the country’s wartime economy
May 30, 2026
Roland Garros to fine Paraguayan player after sexist remark about chair umpire
May 30, 2026
Teenager stuns Novak Djokovic at Roland Garros in another major upset
May 30, 2026
There will be a new men’s champion at the French Open after Novak Djokovic followed Jannik Sinner out of the door at Roland Garros in a five-set thriller
May 29, 2026
NATO accused Moscow on Friday of reckless behaviour and pledged to "defend every inch of Allied territory"
May 29, 2026
Russia is preparing a major new attack on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday on Telegram, citing intelligence data.
May 29, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that it was too early to say if the drone which crashed into an apartment block in Romania was Russian and suggested it could
May 29, 2026
Meta Platforms' plan to collect detailed records of U.S. employees’ computer usage for training its AI models is more extensive
May 29, 2026
Russia has all the means necessary at its disposal to destroy anyone who attempts to attack the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
May 29, 2026
Israeli troops have entered a southern Lebanese village, pushing deeper into the country amid ongoing conflict
May 29, 2026
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of Russia's powerful Security Council, warned European leaders on Friday that drones would continue to stray into their countries and prevent
May 29, 2026
Poland's president said on Friday he wanted a state body to discuss stripping Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Poland's top honour,
May 29, 2026
Officials say the European Union will unlock 16.4 billion euros or around $19 billion in funds for Hungary after recently elected Prime Minister Péter Magyar enacted rapid reforms
May 29, 2026
Spain's ruling Socialist Workers' Party faces several court cases involving allegations of graft, influence-peddling and other crimes that have implicated members of Prime
May 29, 2026
German inflation slowed in May due to lower energy prices, and while core inflation accelerated, analysts said that was likely not evidence that cost
May 29, 2026
Inflation in the euro zone's four largest economies hovered above the European Central Bank's 2% target for a third straight month in May, preliminary data showed on
May 29, 2026
Eight years after ousting a corruption-mired, centre-right government on the promise of cleaning up politics,
May 29, 2026
Prosecutors have placed the Italian branch of U.S. construction giant Caddell Construction under investigation over alleged worker exploitation at the site
May 29, 2026
The EU's trade and investment relationship with China is "not sustainable", the European Commission said on Friday, vowing a stronger response as
May 29, 2026
Thousands of households in southeast England were left without water or facing low pressure during a record-breaking heatwave
May 29, 2026
Contrary to the belief that an immigration crackdown would lead to more jobs for US-born workers, ICE enforcement hasn’t produced economic gains for Americans.
May 29, 2026
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has cast Pope Leo XIV as a global ally on social justice, migration and reparations after meeting the Chicago-born pontiff at the Vatican
May 29, 2026
NATO members condemn Russia after drone slams into Romania apartment building, wounding two
May 29, 2026
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Friday he would conclude a political agreement on the release of frozen European Union funds at a meeting with European
May 29, 2026
U.S. rapper Kanye West, who has been barred from performing in several countries due to past antisemitic comments, is set to hold concerts in the Netherlands next month,
May 29, 2026
Italy's economy grew by 0.3% in the first quarter from the previous three months, boosted by strong exports, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, revising up a
May 29, 2026
Stellantis has no significant plans to expand its recent partnerships with Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Motors to Europe, its Europe chief Emanuele Cappellano said on Friday.
May 29, 2026
The Iran war rocked global bond markets again in May, sending yields to multi-decade highs as traders priced in central bank rate hikes
May 29, 2026
The European Central Bank will act in a "timely and measured manner" to prevent the current energy shock from turning into persistent inflation, governing council member Fabio
May 29, 2026
NATO member Romania said on Friday that a drone injured two people in a southeastern city during an overnight Russian attack on neighbouring Ukraine, an incident likely to increase
May 29, 2026
The number of unemployed people in Germany fell unexpectedly in May, labour office figures showed on Friday, but the office warned
May 29, 2026
Russian drones attacked three foreign-flagged merchant vessels late on Thursday and overnight as they sailed along Ukraine's maritime export corridor in the Black Sea, Deputy Prime
May 29, 2026
Russia has intensified covert efforts to undermine the leader of Armenia’s bid for re-
May 29, 2026
Tangled cobwebs dangle from the ceiling in dim light and a pleasant, musky sweetness pervades the air in this repository of a precious wine collection,
May 29, 2026
Italy's unemployment rate fell slightly to 5.1% in April and a net 123,000 jobs were created during the month, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Friday.
May 29, 2026
Italian EU-harmonised consumer prices (HICP) rose by 0.4% in May from the month before, with the annual inflation rate surging to 3.3% from 2.8% in April amid increasing
May 29, 2026
Romanian authorities say a Russian drone that was part of an overnight attack on Ukraine crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania
May 29, 2026
French inflation rose in May at the fastest pace in more than two years on surging energy prices, though slightly less than expected, preliminary data from statistics agency INSEE
May 29, 2026
France's economy shrank slightly in the first quarter, final data from statistics office INSEE showed on Friday, missing the preliminary reading of 0.0% for the euro zone's second-
May 29, 2026
Euro zone consumers, already scarred by the Ukraine war, have changed their attitudes more quickly as a result of the upheaval of the Iran war, European Central Bank
May 29, 2026
France will ask Russia's ambassador to explain what happened when he fulfills a summons after a drone struck an apartment building in Romania, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel
May 29, 2026
France has asked for the public prosecutor to investigate the treatment of French nationals who were part of a recent activist flotilla heading for Gaza, French Foreign
May 29, 2026
Spain's European Union-harmonised 12-month inflation rate rose to 3.6% in May, from 3.5% in the period through April, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute (INE)
May 29, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook A weekend wait looms over markets as sources have told Reuters that the U.S. and Iran have reached an agreement to extend
May 29, 2026
A Ukrainian drone attack killed three utility workers in a Russian-controlled part of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on Thursday, the Kremlin-installed head of the region said.
May 29, 2026
An Austrian court on Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old man who admitted planning a foiled Islamist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in
May 28, 2026
The United States on Thursday leveled unusually harsh criticism against Russia and called for it to refrain from its promised "
May 29, 2026
British business sentiment edged up in May and is now close to its level before the Iran war, according to a monthly survey by Lloyds on Friday which contrasted with most
May 29, 2026
An Austrian court has convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago
May 28, 2026
European Union regulators have fined Chinese online retailer Temu for failing to protect consumers from illegal products
May 28, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is pressing the United States for more Patriot air defense missiles to counter Russian attacks
May 28, 2026
Italian authorities have seized over $232 million in assets linked to the late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro’s drug trafficking network
May 28, 2026
‘I made my own coffee’: BP chair hints cost-cutting push led to his ouster as he hits back at ‘lies’
May 28, 2026
Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday that Europe should show some proof of its allegations that Moscow is jamming GPS signals in Europe.
May 28, 2026
A combined German-Dutch army corps will take command of NATO land forces in Estonia and Latvia later this year to strengthen the alliance's eastern flank against a potential Russian
May 28, 2026
JD.com's acquisition of German retailer Ceconomy will not be financed by Chinese subsidies, the Chinese online retailer said on Thursday after EU antitrust regulators
May 28, 2026
France will reimburse the cost of weight-loss drugs prescribed to severely obese patients from mid-June in a first for a European Union
May 28, 2026
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com's $2.5 billion bid for German electronics retailer Ceconomy may involve Chinese subsidies, European Union competition
May 28, 2026
Russia will not choose who represents Europe in any potential talks with Moscow over Ukraine, EU foreign ministers said on
May 28, 2026
The market for jet fuel in the European Union could get tighter if the situation in the Strait of Hormuz does not improve within weeks, said the European Commission on
May 28, 2026
‘There’s a next level’: 10 more delicious French pastries to try
May 28, 2026
Canada cruised to a 4-0 win over reigning champions the United States to book their spot in the semi-finals of the International Ice Hockey Federation World
May 28, 2026
French lawmakers voted on Thursday to formally repeal slavery-era laws that defined the legal status of enslaved people as "movable property" and justified
May 28, 2026
In a corn field in eastern Ukraine, soldiers fired drones into the sky using a slingshot, aiming at military targets
May 28, 2026
Poland will sign agreements by the end of May to finance military equipment worth 100 billion zlotys ($27.41 billion) under the European Union's SAFE program worth 43.7
May 28, 2026
Bulgaria is keen to respect its commitment to NATO and increase its defence spending to 5% of its gross domestic product, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said on Thursday.
May 28, 2026
Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday that allowing U.S. missile systems to be deployed on Japanese territory as part of military drills would threaten the security of
May 28, 2026
The European Central Bank's decision to keep rates unchanged in April was a close call for some policymakers as persistently high inflation made it increasingly hard to
May 28, 2026
From Antwerp to the Seychelles, Baton Rouge to Melbourne, or New York to Namibia, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has upended
May 28, 2026
Rome Pride has barred Italy's only Jewish LGBT group from joining its annual parade, saying Keshet Italia had failed to clearly condemn Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide,
May 28, 2026
Naomi Osaka keeps bringing the fashion in Paris
May 28, 2026
Top-ranked Jannik Sinner appears to be struggling with the heat during his second-round match at the French Open against 56th-ranked Argentine opponent Juan Manuel Cerundolo
May 28, 2026
How far can the power of friendship get you at the World Cup
May 28, 2026
World No. 1 Jannik Sinner crashes out of heat-stricken Roland Garros in five-set upset
May 28, 2026
NATO and EU member Latvia's parliament on Thursday approved the formation of a new government, making centre-right opposition lawmaker
May 28, 2026
The EU Council on Thursday imposed sanctions on four entities and three individuals for abuses against Palestinians in West Bank, it said in a statement.
May 28, 2026
Jannik Sinner's bid for a maiden French Open title and career Grand Slam went up in smoke on a scorching Thursday as the world number one struggled with
May 28, 2026
Italy's Constitutional Court said on Thursday that widow pension rights apply to same-sex couples who married abroad before civil partnerships were legalised in the country,
May 28, 2026
Anthropic will continue expanding in Europe after opening its sixth office on the continent in Milan on Thursday, Chris Ciauri, managing director for international at the U.S
May 28, 2026
The European Commission praised Bulgaria's progress in establishing an independent anti-corruption office and said on Thursday the country had to keep up its reform
May 28, 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer defended his government on Thursday against criticism from Labour's longest-serving premier, Tony Blair, saying his ministers had adopted the
May 28, 2026
Romanian prosecutors said on Thursday they have extended a criminal investigation into internet personality Andrew Tate by adding charges of instigating hatred and
May 28, 2026
A new exhibit called “Hidden Treasures” shines a light on the 250 year cultural dialogue between France and the U.S. through the lens of French luxury goods
May 28, 2026
The U.S. government should respond positively to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's request for more air defence missiles to shield Ukraine's capital from a threatened escalation
May 29, 2026
Iceland's parliament on Thursday voted in favour of holding an August 29 referendum to begin European Union accession talks, supporting the government's two-step plan
May 29, 2026
Japan's U.N. ambassador on Thursday dismissed as "ridiculous" Russia's criticism of its military buildup at a time when Moscow was continuing its war against Ukraine in violation of
May 28, 2026
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar on Thursday said a deal on releasing frozen European Union funds was "very close" as there is agreement with Brussels on many issues,
May 28, 2026
Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, on Thursday accused the NATO military alliance of making practical preparations for what he called a "
May 28, 2026
Drone attacks were reported on three tankers in the Black Sea on Thursday near Turkey's northern coast, shipping agency Tribeca said.
May 28, 2026
European shares closed lower on Thursday, though they pared steeper losses after a report on news outlet Axios said the United States and Iran
May 28, 2026
KKR & Co said on Thursday it would open an office in Milan as the U.S. private equity firm looks to expand its presence in Italy after significant investments in the telecoms
May 28, 2026
French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France's colonies
May 28, 2026
A man has stabbed and wounded three people at the train station in the Swiss city of Winterthur before being arrested
May 28, 2026
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May 28, 2026
NATO will strengthen the defence of its eastern flank by tasking the German-Netherlands Corps with the command of allied troops in Estonia and Latvia in
May 28, 2026
Ukraine will buy 20 new Gripen fighter jets and Sweden will donate 16 of an older model next year, Ukraine's President Volodymyr
May 28, 2026
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has appointed a senior Reuters executive, Simon Robinson, as its director of news and current affairs, the two news organisations
May 28, 2026
Morale among Italian consumers recovered against expectations in May after recent declines, but business morale fell to an 8-month low, data showed on Thursday, in mixed signs
May 28, 2026
Ukraine's parliament ratified a loan agreement with the European Union on Thursday, paving the way for €90 billion in financing and allowing the government to
May 28, 2026
The energy shock caused by the Middle East conflict will likely have a persistent impact on inflation even if there is a quick solution to the war, the
May 28, 2026
Sentiment among Britain's consumer-facing services businesses fell to its lowest since February 2025 this month and a recent rebound in business services morale reversed
May 28, 2026
The Israeli military has told residents across southern Lebanon to leave as it expands its operations there
May 27, 2026
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday she had discussed Ukraine's path to EU membership with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
May 28, 2026
Novak Djokovic was pushed by 74th-ranked Valentin Royer for more than 3½ hours before he reached the third round of the French Open with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (7), 6-3 victory
May 27, 2026
The prosecution began its case against former Northern Ireland politician Jeffrey Donaldson on historical sex offence charges on
May 27, 2026
If Ferrari wanted to grab the world's attention with the Luce, its first all-electric car, mission accomplished - even if much of the
May 27, 2026
Tony Blair, who led Labour to victory in three UK elections, called on the party on Tuesday to shun the temptation to move left or reverse Brexit to shore up its fortunes,
May 27, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged U.S.
May 27, 2026
The Trump administration will extend deportation protections and work permits for thousands of Lebanese nationals in the U.S. for
May 27, 2026
Community honors Nicole Amor, Minnesota soldier killed in Kuwait, with memorial stone
May 27, 2026
Britain's cyberspying chief has warned that artificial intelligence is becoming an “unstoppable force” weaponized just below traditional warfare levels
May 27, 2026
A German court sentenced Daniela Klette, identified by police as a former member of the extreme-left Red Army Faction, to 13 years in prison on Wednesday for a
May 27, 2026
Abercrombie & Fitch and Bath & Body Works beat quarterly profit estimates, sending their shares up more than 12% on Wednesday, and signaled that economic
May 27, 2026
Hotel’s refusal to serve guest tap water at restaurant is lawful, top Italian court rules
May 27, 2026
Britain is at a "moment of consequence" amid hybrid attacks from Russia and other adversaries and a narrowing window to stay ahead in the race to develop
May 27, 2026
Europe announced plans on Wednesday to allocate the bulk of valuable mobile satellite spectrum to European companies while reducing the share U.S.
May 27, 2026
European Union foreign ministers will discuss on Thursday how to approach any possible future talks with
May 27, 2026
Spanish police have mounted a search of the headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party as part of an ongoing investigation into possible financial wrongdoing
May 27, 2026
Dulux paint maker AkzoNobel struck down a €12.5 billion ($14.6 billion) cash takeover offer from rivals Nippon Paint and Sherwin-Williams on Wednesday, sending its
May 27, 2026
Judges at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday set November 30 as the start date for the trial of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, who is charged
May 27, 2026
The Netherlands will send a minesweeper to the Mediterranean Sea as part of NATO operations to allow a possible rapid deployment to the Strait of Hormuz, should a mission
May 27, 2026
Suspected former member of German left-wing militant group jailed after years on the run
May 27, 2026
The head of Airbus Defence ruled out the complete failure of the crisis-hit Franco-German FCAS fighter jet project, saying at least a networking system for weapons and drone
May 27, 2026
Latvia is increasing anti-drone defences on its borders with Russia and Moscow-allied Belarus in response to drones flying into the
May 27, 2026
Italian hotels can refuse to serve their guests tap water, Italy's highest court ruled in response to a tourist's complaint against a luxury hotel in a ski resort in the
May 27, 2026
Schaeffler and U.S.-based satellite operator Spire Global have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop space hardware and satellite platforms for European defence,
May 27, 2026
Britain will sign a new defence and security treaty with Poland on Wednesday to combat threats, including from an increasingly aggressive Russia, part of Prime Minister Keir
May 27, 2026
Denmark and Celtic goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, who was part of the Premier League-winning team with Leicester in 2016 in one of soccer’s biggest shocks, has announced his retirement from soccer because of a serious shoulder injury
May 27, 2026
Paris prosecutors have opened a probe to determine whether three hard-left mayoral candidates were targeted by a foreign state seeking to meddle in
May 27, 2026
Pope Leo on Wednesday decried what he called a "sharp intensification" of the war in Ukraine, telling pilgrims at his weekly audience at the Vatican that he wanted to
May 27, 2026
Poland's largest video game developer CD Projekt will release a third story expansion for its flagship game "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" in 2027, it said on
May 27, 2026
The German Council of Economic Experts cut its growth forecast for Europe's largest economy on Wednesday, citing the impact of the Middle East conflict,
May 27, 2026
Police were seeking documents at the headquarters of Spain's ruling Socialist Party (PSOE) on Wednesday as part of an investigation into an
May 27, 2026
European shares ended little changed on Wednesday, holding near record levels reached before the Iran war began, as gains in automobile and
May 27, 2026
The reinstated chair of Turkey's main opposition party Kemal Kilicdaroglu said on Wednesday the party will hold a congress once legal conditions are met, after a court
May 27, 2026
Hungary's parliament on Wednesday approved legislation to maintain the country's membership in the International Criminal Court, reversing a 2025 decision made by the
May 27, 2026
The iconic Istanbul hotel which hosted spies, kings and Greta Garbo
May 27, 2026
An Australian government inquiry has heard that a state police force has worked to form a heavily armed rapid response team since the Bondi Beach shooting
May 27, 2026
The Iran war and lingering trade tensions could dent euro zone economic growth, push up borrowing costs and challenge some member states' ability to sustain public
May 27, 2026
European Union governments cleared legislation on Wednesday to remove import duties on many U.S. goods, an EU source with knowledge of their meeting
May 27, 2026
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, the leftist firebrand who ran Greece at the height of its debt crisis in 2015, has launched a new political party, promising to fight
May 27, 2026
Military drones straying into the airspace of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are stoking concerns that the war in Ukraine is spilling over into NATO's northern borders with
May 27, 2026
Air defence units in the port of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea downed more than 20 Ukrainian drones early on Wednesday, with Ukraine also using Storm Shadow missiles, the
May 27, 2026
China is willing to work with the Czech Republic to improve ties and revive a traditional friendship, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Czech counterpart Petr Macinka, state
May 27, 2026
Ukrainian drones have strayed into Baltic countries' airspace in recent weeks, sowing confusion and
May 27, 2026
Poland wants the closest possible diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom, focusing on defence against Russia, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday
May 27, 2026
European leaders are divided on how far to go in curbing Big Tech as they weigh momentous decisions over giving EU firms preferential access to mobile
May 27, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rocky Swift While markets appear to be looking past the Middle East crisis and the havoc it has wreaked on energy supplies, central bankers
May 27, 2026
BP's board on Tuesday ousted Chair Albert Manifold and expressed serious concerns about his governance standards, oversight and conduct in the latest leadership
May 26, 2026
A person familiar with the matter says Canada has reached a deal to export liquefied natural gas to Germany from a planned Pacific Coast terminal
May 27, 2026
Britain will sign a new defence and security treaty with Poland on Wednesday to combat threats, including from an increasingly aggressive Russia, part of Prime Minister Keir
May 27, 2026
A spring heat wave is scorching parts of Western Europe, breaking temperature records and triggering government warnings
May 26, 2026
Coco Gauff was involved in a car accident on the way to Roland Garros for the first match of her French Open title defense
May 27, 2026
Aryna Sabalenka’s diamonds sparkled in the sunshine when she won her first-round match at the heat-soaked French Open
May 26, 2026
Portuguese police said on Tuesday that the authorities have dismantled a criminal group allegedly responsible for illegally trying to regularise the status of around 4,000
May 26, 2026
Three UK teens convicted of rape walked free. After a nationwide outcry their sentences will be reviewed
May 27, 2026
Parents’ groups in France are calling for more attention to child abuse scandals as a rare public trial opens in Paris
May 26, 2026
A train crashed into a school minivan at a level-crossing in the Belgian town of Buggenhout on
May 26, 2026
U.N.
May 26, 2026
Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's low-earth-orbit satellite business may be able to acquire some European mobile satellite spectrum next year, two people
May 26, 2026
The European Commission has asked the Czech government for information on arrangements designed to prevent conflicts of interest over EU subsidies linked to companies in the
May 26, 2026
Britain on Tuesday targeted Russia-linked cryptocurrency platforms, banks and financial networks that it said were used to bypass sanctions, freezing their
May 26, 2026
A cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak is undergoing further cleaning before it returns to its home port
May 26, 2026
Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland and the European Union summoned Russian representatives on Tuesday after Russia threatened strikes on targets in Ukraine's capital
May 26, 2026
A train traveling at high speed hit a minibus crossing a railway in Belgium, killing four people, including two children, and injuring five other children
May 26, 2026
Four killed as Belgian school bus hit by train after appearing to plow through barrier
May 26, 2026
U.S.
May 26, 2026
The persistence of energy price shocks will be a key factor guiding the European Central Bank's next policy decision, Dutch central bank chief
May 26, 2026
NATO will strengthen the defence of its eastern flank with a new structure that would facilitate the rapid deployment of
May 26, 2026
Ukraine's ambassador to Turkey said he expects NATO to discuss financial support for Kyiv at its summit in July, suggesting each member contributes a small
May 26, 2026
The U.S. intends to significantly reduce military contributions available to assist European allies in a crisis, including fighter jets, warships and mid-air refuelling aircraft,
May 26, 2026
Kyiv residents and foreign embassies are shrugging off Moscow's threat of a wave of heavy strikes on the Ukrainian capital as nothing new after years of war
May 26, 2026
Ferrari shares plunged by more than 8% on Tuesday as investors and critics reacted coolly to the Italian luxury sports
May 26, 2026
A Russian Orthodox cleric has been released without charge by authorities in the Czech Republic after being detained when police found small containers of white powder in his car.
May 26, 2026
The war in Iran is choking off hopes of an economic recovery in Germany that had emerged at the beginning of the year, with businesses assessing their situation as
May 26, 2026
British retailers reported lower sales in May against a backdrop of weak demand, but not the record downturn they had reported a month earlier, according to figures released
May 26, 2026
Ireland aims to pass a law curbing goods trade with settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank by mid-July with Israel, some U.S. lawmakers and business groups opposing
May 26, 2026
Ukraine’s air force says Russia launched over 100 drones and two ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight
May 26, 2026
The euro zone is not facing systemic risk from the recent turbulence in private credit markets but a few pockets of the financial system are exposed and some tension may
May 26, 2026
The European Central Bank will likely revise its inflation and growth forecasts next month reflecting the darkening outlook from the Middle East conflict, its chief economist
May 26, 2026
British shop price inflation sped up in May on the back of disruption and higher energy costs caused by the Iran war, according to a retail industry group which said the
May 26, 2026
Ferrari presented its first fully electric car on Monday, marking a high-stakes shift by the luxury sports car maker as competitors including Porsche and
May 26, 2026
The ECB should raise interest rates in June, even if ongoing peace talks with Iran yield a deal, as the conflict has been far longer
May 26, 2026
Europe is baking under unseasonal heat that is shattering temperature records and prompting government warnings after deaths were reported at amateur sports events in France
May 25, 2026
Spanish citizen evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship tests positive
May 26, 2026
Russia said on Monday that it intended to launch "systematic strikes" on targets in Kyiv linked to the Ukrainian military as well as decision-making centres, and urged
May 25, 2026
Tennis players at the French Open say they haven’t experienced conditions this hot at Roland Garros since the 2024 Paris Olympics
May 25, 2026
A Spanish national in quarantine in a Madrid military hospital, who is among those evacuated from a cruise ship earlier this month, has tested positive of hantavirus,
May 26, 2026
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's right-wing coalition won the Venice mayoral election, projections showed on Monday, retaining control of the most prominent
May 26, 2026
The European Union is planning to fine Alphabet's Google a high triple-digit million euro amount as part of an antitrust investigation, Germany's Handelsblatt
May 25, 2026
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov advised U.S.
May 26, 2026
Rafael Jodar has made a dominant debut at the French Open and dropped just five games
May 25, 2026
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya visited Kyiv on Monday following weeks of mounting warnings from Ukrainian officials about Russian
May 25, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukraine had made little progress in talks with the United States on expanding production of missile defences and was working with
May 25, 2026
The estranged husband of former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon has pleaded guilty to embezzling over 400,000 pounds from the Scottish National Party
May 25, 2026
A former senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church said on Monday that Czech police had found small containers of a white substance in his car during a search a day
May 25, 2026
Ozgur Ozel, ousted as leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), said on Tuesday he was formally resigning from his party
May 22, 2026
Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party condemned on Monday a court ruling that ousted the leadership of the main opposition CHP last week, calling a police
May 25, 2026
Teacher returns to the first grade classroom where she once learned as a student
May 25, 2026
Belarus' exiled opposition leader visits Kyiv as the city recovers from Russia’s largest missile attack of the year
May 25, 2026
Several magnetic mines had been detected on a tanker in Russia's Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, Russia's Investigative Committee said on Monday.
May 25, 2026
Cypriot YouTuber and TikToker Fidias Panayiotou says he’ll hold onto his European Parliament seat despite winning one in Cyprus’ House of Representatives
May 25, 2026
Latvian opposition lawmaker Andris Kulbergs of the United List said on Monday he aimed to form a four-party majority government after the ruling coalition collapsed this month
May 25, 2026
Greek police arrested 20 people on the island of Crete on Monday, saying they had dismantled a criminal gang suspected of defrauding the European Union of agricultural
May 25, 2026
Ferrari, renowned for its roaring V8 and V12 engines, is unveiling its first fully electric model, the Luce.
May 25, 2026
As its sports car rivals tap the brakes on a shift to EVs, Ferrari will take a leap into an uncertain era on Monday with the launch of its first fully-
May 25, 2026
Italian teen star Kimi Antonelli charged to his fourth straight Formula 1 victory Sunday in a wild Canadian Grand Prix after Mercedes teammate George Russell was knocked out by an engine failure
May 25, 2026
Novak Djokovic comes back from a set down for a 5-7, 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 victory over home player Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in the first round of the French Open in his record 82nd Grand Slam appearance
May 25, 2026
Ireland's governing centre-right Fine Gael and the Social Democrats, one of the country's smaller centre-left parties, won two by-elections on Sunday,
May 25, 2026
- Forensic experts on Sunday sifted through the ruins of a dormitory largely
May 25, 2026
Uber’s board met on Saturday to discuss raising its offer for Delivery Hero after a major shareholder rebuffed Uber's bid that would value the German food delivery group at over
May 25, 2026
West Ham has been relegated and Tottenham has survived on an emotional final day of the Premier League season when Pep Guardiola and Mohamed Salah made tearful exits after record-breaking spells in English soccer
May 24, 2026
Billionaire Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke watched on as the team's players finally got their hands on the Premier League trophy
May 25, 2026
Marta Kostyuk’s first-round win at the French Open becomes one of her toughest matches after she finds out beforehand that a missile almost hit her parents’ home in Ukraine
May 24, 2026
Cyprus' far right made gains in Sunday's parliamentary election while anti-corruption newcomers and social media influencers captured seats, results
May 24, 2026
Police have stormed the offices of Turkey’s main opposition CHP party, using tear gas and rubber bullets
May 24, 2026
Turkish riot police fired tear gas and forced their way into the main opposition party's headquarters to evict its ousted leadership on
May 24, 2026
Home player Arthur Gea ran off the court for an emergency bathroom break early in the first set of his French Open debut
May 24, 2026
Turkish riot police fired tear gas and broke through the gates of the main opposition party's headquarters to evict its ousted leadership on Sunday, a Reuters witness said.
May 24, 2026
Russian forces hit targets in Ukraine using four types of missiles - Oreshnik, Iskander, Kinzhal and Zircon - in overnight attacks on Sunday, in retaliation for Kyiv's
May 24, 2026
Poland is facing a series of false alarms about fires or other threats, including one on Saturday at a flat in Gdansk belonging to a member of President Karol Nawrocki's
May 24, 2026
Russia has launched an intense missile and drone attack on Kyiv, shaking buildings across the city center
May 24, 2026
Cristian Mungiu’s Norway-set drama about political polarization “Fjord” has won the Palme d’Or
May 23, 2026
Clashes have erupted between protesters and riot police after a massive anti-government rally in Serbia's capital, Belgrade
May 23, 2026
Police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters in central Belgrade on Saturday, as tens of thousands gathered to demand early elections and an end to the more than
May 24, 2026
At least seven police were injured in clashes with protesters, officials said, as tens of thousands of people marched through Madrid on Saturday, demanding the resignation
May 23, 2026
France has banned Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, citing his "unspeakable" behavior toward activists from a flotilla to Gaza
May 23, 2026
The death toll from a drone strike on a student dorm in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine has risen to 18, with many of the victims young women, Russian
May 23, 2026
Denmark's King Frederik asked caretaker Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Saturday to make a fresh attempt to form a government after centre-right talks led by Defence
May 23, 2026
France has decided to ban Israel's far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from French territory, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Saturday, adding that this
May 23, 2026
The ousted leader of Turkey's main opposition party called on Saturday for a new party congress to be held as soon as possible - in some 40 days - after a
May 23, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a letter to EU leaders that a German proposal to grant Ukraine "associate" membership of the European Union was
May 23, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has visited families near Naples affected by illegal toxic dumping linked to the mafia
May 23, 2026
European Union countries will face large bills for defence, energy and pensions in the next 15 years, the International Monetary Fund told EU finance
May 23, 2026
Pope Leo on Saturday called out companies who seek "dizzying" profits at the cost of environmental pollution, on a visit to an area
May 23, 2026
They thought they had it all in Miami – then they moved to Italy
May 23, 2026
These unassuming wedding photos poke holes in the patriarchy
May 23, 2026
In the sky over western Ukraine, a bullet-shaped P1-SUN interceptor drone dived towards its target as dozens of soldiers looked on.
May 23, 2026
‘Time is not in Russia’s favor’: Battlefield losses and economic pain pile pressure on Putin, European spy chief says
May 23, 2026
Staten Island shipyard explosion, fire leaves 1 dead, over 30 hurt
May 23, 2026
Activists detained after their flotilla tried to breach Israel's naval blockade of Gaza have reported mistreatment by Israeli soldiers
May 23, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio already faced a difficult task in soothing NATO allies anxious about President Donald Trump's often-abrupt announcements
May 22, 2026
The European Central Bank warned European Union finance ministers on Friday that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins could
May 23, 2026
U.S. cosmetics maker Estée Lauder and Spanish perfume group Puig had been finalising the details of a deal when talks
May 22, 2026
Rafael Nadal, Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula were among the players paying tribute to Howard Fendrich a day after the longtime AP Tennis Writer died
May 23, 2026
A bipartisan group of senators is pushing back on delays by the Department of Defense in sending roughly $600 million in security aid to Ukraine and other allies in eastern Europe
May 23, 2026
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Friday she would withdraw France from NATO's integrated military command if elected
May 22, 2026
Slovenia’s parliament approved right-leaning leader Janez Jansa as prime minister-designate on Friday, paving the way for a new government that has pledged tax reliefs,
May 22, 2026
DHL, FedEx and UPS urged European Union finance ministers to phase in new duty rules on low-value packages on Friday, warning of supply chain
May 22, 2026
Diplomatic efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine should be reinvigorated, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday, adding that he expected new U.S. proposals on how that
May 22, 2026
NATO allies and defense officials have expressed bewilderment at U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would send 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland
May 22, 2026
Denmark's acting Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen's attempt to form a centre-right government broke down on Friday, he said, prolonging a post-election stalemate in
May 22, 2026
The Cannes Film Festival is wrapping up its twelve days of premieres and high fashion
May 22, 2026
The Royal International Air Tattoo, one of the world's largest defence shows, has been cancelled due to military operations linked to the Iran war, it said on Friday.
May 22, 2026
Switzerland expanded its sanctions lists against Russia and Belarus on Friday, adopting parts of the European Union's latest package of measures over Moscow's war in Ukraine
May 22, 2026
France has drafted a U.N.
May 22, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered his military to prepare options to retaliate against Ukraine for what he described as a
May 22, 2026
Activists released from Israeli custody after being detained on a flotilla trying to bring aid to Gaza were
May 22, 2026
An imprisoned Belarusian journalist's relatives say he has fallen seriously ill
May 22, 2026
Trump says he’s sending 5,000 troops to Poland, deepening confusion over US military deployments to Europe
May 22, 2026
Former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Friday formally launched his bid for the presidency, joining a crowded cast of centrist candidates who risk being
May 22, 2026
Michael Carrick has been handed a two-year contract by Manchester United after passing his audition for the job of head coach
May 22, 2026
Huge advertisements posted in Italian train stations linking Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with fascist leader Benito Mussolini have stoked social media
May 22, 2026
Portugal will find it extremely difficult to achieve a balanced budget this year after storms in January and February cost the state €2 billion ($2.3 billion), or about 0.6%
May 22, 2026
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller, an influential voice in policymaking who until recently had advocated for lower
May 22, 2026
The United Nations refugee agency on Friday said it had lost $1 million worth of aid when a Russian missile struck one of its warehouses in Dnipro in eastern Ukraine earlier
May 22, 2026
Tourists, shoppers and office workers in a busy London street on an ordinary weekday found themselves part of a digital identity check as live facial
May 22, 2026
Turkey's opposition vowed on Friday to resist an unprecedented court ruling that ousted its leader, inflamed a political crisis and
May 22, 2026
The head of a far-left Greek militant group that killed four American officials and 19 others has been released from a maximum-security prison
May 22, 2026
Spain will introduce a plan to match migrants to jobs under a programme to grant legal status to around half a million undocumented workers to help drive
May 22, 2026
U.S.
May 22, 2026
Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters apologised for the upset caused to staff by his remarks about artificial intelligence replacing "lower value" human workers, but stopped
May 22, 2026
Residential construction in Germany dropped to a 13-year low in 2025, hurt by higher building costs and interest rates, putting pressure on the government to step up
May 22, 2026
A pipeline explosion at Hungarian oil and gas group MOL's petrochemical plant in Tiszaujvaros that killed one person and
May 22, 2026
Europe's economy is in a stagflationary trend due to the surge in energy prices caused by the Iran war, but governments must be
May 22, 2026
Maria Karystianou, a doctor whose daughter died in Greece's worst train crash in 2023, launched a political party on Thursday as she
May 22, 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor investigation could examine sexual misconduct allegations
May 22, 2026
A giant stew pot is floating in a small lake in The Hague as part of an open-air art exhibition
May 22, 2026
Italy's financial police said on Friday they had busted a sophisticated streaming piracy network that caused roughly €300 million ($348 million) in damages to rights holders
May 22, 2026
German business morale unexpectedly improved in May, a survey showed on Friday, but economists warn that the outlook for Europe's biggest economy remains
May 22, 2026
Investment bank JPMorgan said on Friday that Turkey's central bank was likely to hike its key interest rate to 40% and could even do so before its next planned meeting in
May 22, 2026
The pound edged lower on Friday as uncertainty over the status of peace talks between the U.S. and Iran prompted investors to buy the dollar and after UK
May 22, 2026
At least four people were killed and 35 children were wounded in an overnight Ukrainian drone attack on a student dormitory in Russian-controlled Luhansk in eastern Ukraine,
May 22, 2026
NATO has to be good for all those involved, U.S.
May 22, 2026
British police are appealing for witnesses as they expand their investigation into potential offenses by the former Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
May 22, 2026
Polish President Karol Nawrocki thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for his decision to send additional U.S. troops to Poland.
May 22, 2026
German consumer sentiment recovered heading into June, as households' income expectations improved, a survey found on Friday.
May 22, 2026
The German economy grew by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the previous quarter, the statistics office said on Friday, confirming its
May 22, 2026
The British police investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will be long and complex, senior officers said on Friday, after his arrest earlier this
May 22, 2026
After seven years living as an undocumented migrant in Spain, doing day jobs and staying in shanty towns, Moroccan Abdelmoujoud Erra
May 22, 2026
Europe's push to curb its dependence on U.S. payments giants Visa and Mastercard has driven a wedge between the European Central Bank
May 22, 2026
Polish parcel locker company Inpost said on Friday that the €7.8 billion ($9 billion) buyout offer from a consortium made up of FedEx, Advent International and other InPost
May 22, 2026
The Russia-controlled part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region was experiencing emergency power blackouts on Friday, Russia-installed governor Yevgeny Balitsky was quoted as
May 22, 2026
A strong rally in tech stocks has largely gone under the radar against a darkening backdrop for European equity markets as the energy shock triggered by
May 22, 2026
From 221B Baker Street in central London to a cliffside waterfall in the Swiss Alps, generations of armchair detectives are celebrating International Sherlock Holmes Day
May 22, 2026
Serbia’s university students are gearing up for a major rally this weekend, pushing for political changes under President Aleksandar Vucic
May 22, 2026
The Cannes Film Festival's amfAR Gala has dazzled attendees with performances by Robbie Williams, Zara Larsson, and Lizzo
May 22, 2026
The U.S. opening of a larger diplomatic hub in Greenland on Thursday was met by demonstrators opposed to President Donald Trump's ambition for greater influence
May 22, 2026
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told visiting Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Mihai Popsoi that Beijing "cherishes" ties with the Eastern European country and aims to
May 22, 2026
The United States will be sending an additional 5,000 troops to Poland, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday.
May 22, 2026
U.S. cosmetics maker Estée Lauder and Spanish perfumery Puig ended merger talks that would have created a premium beauty
May 22, 2026
The mastermind of defunct Greek guerilla group November 17, which carried out a 27-year campaign of assassinations, has been released from jail, two police sources said on
May 22, 2026
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday dismissed any notion that Belarus would be dragged into the Ukraine war, but said Russia and Belarus would jointly
May 22, 2026
A Paris appeals court has found Airbus and Air France guilty of manslaughter in the 2009 crash of Flight 447 from Rio to Paris
May 22, 2026
Stellantis on Thursday laid out a 60 billion euro ($70 billion) strategy that marks a shift under new
May 21, 2026
Hundreds of people protested outside Ireland's parliament on Thursday to express outrage at the death of a Congolese-born man after he was restrained
May 21, 2026
PARIS, May 21 - African swine fever outbreaks in the European Union rose sharply in 2025, increasing by 76 % in domestic pigs and 44 % in wild boar, as the disease reemerged in Spain after more than
May 21, 2026
Israeli authorities are currently deporting 37 French nationals who were part of the group of activists on board a Gaza-bound aid flotilla to Turkey, France's Foreign
May 21, 2026
A Turkish court effectively ousted the main opposition leader Ozgur Ozel on Thursday, annulling the 2023 party congress that elected
May 21, 2026
Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms and TikTok were hit with complaints from European Union consumer groups on Thursday for allegedly failing to protect
May 21, 2026
The oldest bridge in Paris has begun vanishing as JR — the artist known as the “French Banksy” — began inflating a giant “cave” over the Pont Neuf
May 21, 2026
After years spent fleeing serial killers and worse, Maika Monroe is on the offensive
May 21, 2026
The bodies of four missing Italian scuba divers who died last week have been found in the deepest part of the Maldives sea cave they were exploring. CNN's Barbie Latza Nadeau has the latest on the recovery efforts.
May 20, 2026
Trucks carrying intercontinental ballistic missiles rumbled over forest roads, submarines set sail from Arctic and Pacific ports, and crews scrambled into warplanes as Russia and neighboring Belarus held the final stage of their joint nuclear drills
May 21, 2026
Berlin’s state parliament has given the go-ahead for the city’s bid to rehost the Olympic Games on or after the 100th anniversary of the 1936 Games staged by the Nazis
May 21, 2026
France faces mounting public finance risks as budget-tightening lags and debt remains high, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, warning that insufficient
May 21, 2026
British finance minister Rachel Reeves on Thursday announced a temporary cut in value-added tax for tourist venues over the summer to reduce
May 21, 2026
Spain's Supreme Court has struck down a national registry for short-term tourist rentals seeking to advertise on platforms such as Airbnb that was introduced by the
May 21, 2026
A spiral segment of the Eiffel Tower's original staircase sold for more than €450,000 at auction in Paris on Thursday.
May 21, 2026
Euro zone consumer confidence rose by 1.6 points in May from the April number, figures released on Thursday showed.
May 21, 2026
Documents reveal Queen Elizabeth II was eager for her second son, Andrew, to become Britain's trade envoy in 2001
May 21, 2026
In Ira Sachs’ 1980s-set drama “The Man I Love,” Rami Malek finds the most well-tailored role since his Oscar-winning turn in “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
May 21, 2026
Stellantis set out a new 60 billion euro ($70 billion) business plan on Thursday that includes 60 new car models by 2030 - from combustion engine to fully
May 21, 2026
Israel faced mounting international criticism after its national security minister released a video showing detained Gaza flotilla activists kneeling with their
May 21, 2026
Britain's late Queen Elizabeth pressed almost three decades ago for her son Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to be made a government trade envoy,
May 21, 2026
The energy shock from the Iran war is seeping ever deeper into the European economy, presenting policy-makers with a dilemma as it
May 21, 2026
A Paris appeals court on Thursday found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over
May 21, 2026
A court in Georgia sentenced a senior opposition figure to 2-1/2 years in prison on Thursday on charges of sabotage and inciting a coup at local elections last year, the
May 21, 2026
‘London pizza’ is now a thing — and some say it’s the best in the world
May 21, 2026
Andrew was not vetted for controversial UK trade envoy role that was late Queen’s ‘wish,’ files show
May 21, 2026
Ukrainian drones have recently caused concern by entering Baltic airspace, leading to tensions with NATO countries
May 21, 2026
British factory orders contracted this month at the fastest rate since September 2020 and expectations for selling prices surged, according to a survey on Thursday that illustrated
May 21, 2026
Inflation in Germany is trending upwards and economic growth will likely be flat during the second quarter, hit by rising fuel expenses and uncertainty due to the Iran
May 21, 2026
The euro zone economy will slow in 2026 after war in the Middle East triggered the second energy shock in less than five years with the severity of
May 21, 2026
The family of a U.S. citizen who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an outbreak of a rare strain of the virus has killed over 130 people, has been
May 21, 2026
QinetiQ was reviewing all options for its struggling U.S. business, it said on Thursday, while lifting its revenue growth and operating margin forecast for the 2027 fiscal year.
May 21, 2026
Italy's economy will grow by less than 1% this year for a fourth year running, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Thursday, suggesting ways the
May 21, 2026
Look of the Week: The irony of Bella Hadid’s Jane Birkin tribute
May 21, 2026
The European Union’s executive commission has cut its growth outlook and predicted higher inflation due to sharply higher energy prices from the war in Iran
May 21, 2026
Ukraine must be very precise when using drones to avoid Russia interfering with their flight path, the Polish defence minister said on Thursday, after a series of airspace
May 21, 2026
Economic activity in the euro zone shrank at its sharpest rate in more than two-and-a-half years in May as a war-driven surge in living costs hammered
May 21, 2026
Syria will attend the G7 summit in France next month as a guest nation and be represented by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, three sources familiar with the matter said,
May 21, 2026
Germany's private sector activity contracted for a second consecutive month in May as the Iran war put the brakes on the country's economic recovery,
May 21, 2026
The U.K. government is set to release confidential papers related to the former Prince Andrew’s appointment as trade envoy
May 21, 2026
The European Central Bank may raise interest rates to preserve credibility in the face of a war-driven rise in fuel costs but there is little to
May 21, 2026
After a year of smaller bars, extra wafers and
May 20, 2026
France's private sector economy contracted in May at its sharpest pace in five-and-a-half years, reflecting an accelerated decline in services activity and a fresh drop in
May 21, 2026
Hungary's ruling Tisza party submitted a constitutional amendment to parliament late on Wednesday that would allow prime ministers to serve for a maximum of eight years
May 21, 2026
Visiting mayors from Ukrainian cities took pictures inside an enormous cave carved in the bedrock below the Finnish
May 21, 2026
European Council President Antonio Costa on Thursday said he was "appalled" by the treatment of aid flotilla members attempting to enter Gaza by Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir.
May 21, 2026
Montenegro marks 20 years of independence from a union with Serbia this week, celebrating a two-decade transformation that has already brought the Balkan country into NATO
May 21, 2026
Video showing far-right Israeli minister taunting Gaza flotilla activists sparks global outcry
May 21, 2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has proposed giving Ukraine a direct role in European Union structures as an interim step to EU membership that he said could help
May 21, 2026
Britons are cool on America and baffled by President Donald Trump as the former colonies celebrate their 250th year of independence
May 21, 2026
The Iran war energy shock, growing inflation concerns and fading interest rate-cut hopes may have bond investors and central bankers on edge but U.S.
May 21, 2026
In front of the future king of England, Unai Emery reaffirmed his status as the king of the Europa League
May 20, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukraine had been in contact with Britain on Wednesday, having sent signals on the "sensitive" issue of sanctions on Russia, with
May 21, 2026
Southampton’s appeal against its expulsion from the Championship playoff final because of spying offenses was dismissed
May 20, 2026
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng will leave the media company by the end of next month to pursue new opportunities created by technological change, she said on Wednesday.
May 21, 2026
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told U.S.
May 21, 2026
An Austrian court found former intelligence officer Egisto Ott guilty of spying on Wednesday, for helping Russia hunt down opponents and selling it state
May 20, 2026
The European Commission found the treatment of the Gaza flotilla activists shown in a video released by Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is "completely
May 21, 2026
Germany is reorganizing its defence procurement agency to make the system more flexible and responsive, the defence ministry said on Wednesday as it moves ahead with the
May 20, 2026
The European Union struck a provisional agreement on Wednesday on legislation to remove import duties on U.S. goods, a key part of a trade deal
May 19, 2026
A calendar featuring close-ups of young, handsome priests has been a popular Rome souvenir for two decades
May 20, 2026
China’s Xi gives Putin a red-carpet welcome – and makes a veiled jab at the US
May 20, 2026
Google said it had rejected a request from two British unions for voluntary recognition but would negotiate with them via a state-backed conciliation service,
May 20, 2026
The case for a European Central Bank rate hike in June is nearly sealed but the bank is likely to be noncommittal about any further
May 20, 2026
Germany's Volkswagen is not currently in talks with Chinese manufacturers regarding overcapacity at its car plants in Europe, although the problem does have
May 20, 2026
Moroccan and French foreign ministers said on Wednesday the two countries are preparing to sign a treaty to strengthen ties during an upcoming state visit
May 20, 2026
Ukraine will send reinforcements to its northern regions and step up diplomatic pressure on Belarus to counter what Kyiv believes are Russian plans to launch a new offensive
May 20, 2026
Eleanor Donaldson, the wife of former Northern Ireland politician Jeffrey Donaldson, is unfit to stand trial alongside her husband on charges related to historical sex
May 20, 2026
An election for a seat in Britain's parliament, set to be contested by possible Labour Party leadership candidate Andy Burnham, will take place on June 18, the local council
May 20, 2026
Germany's government approved a new Civil Defense Plan on Wednesday, shifting from Cold War bunkers to everyday sites such as underground parking garages, tunnels and subway
May 20, 2026
Two Russian jets last month intercepted a British Royal Air Force surveillance plane over the Black Sea, in what Britain's defence ministry said on Wednesday was a dangerous
May 20, 2026
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin has called for a thorough investigation into the death of a Congolese-born man after he was
May 20, 2026
The heir to the Mango retail fortune held a financial grudge against his father and gave police and emergency
May 20, 2026
Lithuania's president and prime minister have been taken to safe locations after a suspected drone was detected near the country's border with Belarus
May 20, 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer insists that Britain’s support for Ukraine remains strong, despite the U.K. delaying some new sanctions on Russian oil
May 20, 2026
The Kremlin slammed remarks by Lithuania's top diplomat as "verging on insanity" on Wednesday after Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said that NATO had to show Moscow it was
May 20, 2026
UK shares closed higher on Wednesday after a softer-than-expected April inflation reading tempered some interest-rate-hike bets, while a drop in crude oil prices and stabilizing
May 20, 2026
The booming global semiconductor market will be "tense" with tight supply for the foreseeable future, the head of chip-making machine giant ASML
May 20, 2026
Israeli police on Wednesday forced activists who were aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla to kneel on the ground in rows with their hands tied behind their
May 20, 2026
A seagull has left a lasting impression on King Charles III during his visit to Northern Ireland
May 20, 2026
HSBC appealed to staff not to fight AI on Wednesday, saying it would destroy jobs while creating new ones, as banking rival
May 20, 2026
China remained Germany's biggest trading partner in the first quarter of 2026, but only narrowly ahead of the United States as German exports to China fell sharply,
May 20, 2026
Fugitive former Polish justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro, who faces charges stemming mainly from his alleged misuse of money for political gain, flew to the United States
May 20, 2026
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has taken time out from dealing with his own sticky political situation to congratulate his favorite soccer team Arsenal on winning the Premier League
May 20, 2026
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will tell NATO foreign ministers this week that the next NATO leaders' summit, set for Ankara in July, should reaffirm the alliance's
May 20, 2026
The gradual reduction of U.S. troops in Europe will happen "in a structured way", that won't impact NATO's defence plans, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on
May 20, 2026
A U.S. doctor will be transferred from Uganda to a hospital in Prague on Wednesday after he came into contact with a patient infected with Ebola, Czech health officials said
May 20, 2026
Kyiv and Budapest began expert-level consultations online on Wednesday, the countries' foreign ministers said.
May 20, 2026
Emmanuel Moulin, President Emmanuel Macron's former chief of staff, on Wednesday won lawmakers' approval to head the Bank of France after
May 20, 2026
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar could meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in June if a deal on Hungarian minority rights
May 20, 2026
Turkey said on Wednesday that Germany would send it a Patriot missile defence system for a six-month deployment from June to replace a system deployed as part of NATO
May 20, 2026
Demand is soaring for Israel's battle-tested weapons and military technology, despite widespread condemnation by rights groups and the international community over the country's conduct in wars, particularly in Gaza
May 20, 2026
The United States' Department of Homeland Security assisted Spanish police in a money-laundering probe that led to an investigation by Spain's High Court of
May 20, 2026
As German Chancellor Friedrich Merz struggles to halt a relentless slide in approval ratings, Ulrich Siegmund,
May 20, 2026
Poland's defence minister said no decisions have been made to reduce the number of American troops in the country and recent U.S. moves may only temporarily
May 20, 2026
Two people were killed and 19 injured in Russia attacks on Ukraine overnight, local officials said on Wednesday, while Ukraine sent drones to strike
May 20, 2026
JPMorgan said that it was officially opening its Chase digital retail bank in Germany on Wednesday, with customers now able to download an app and its website going live.
May 20, 2026
Demand for electric vehicles in Europe has surged as high fuel prices linked to the Iran war propel sales of
May 20, 2026
The European Union struck a provisional agreement on Wednesday on legislation to remove import duties on U.S. goods, a key part of the trade deal
May 20, 2026
Meta Platforms has offered to give rival AI chatbots including OpenAI free access to its social messaging service WhatsApp in Europe, but will start
May 20, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel this week to a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Sweden, where U.S. plans to reduce troop levels in Europe coupled with President Donald Trump’s often inconsistent stance on the alliance have created concern
May 20, 2026
Southampton has been expelled from the Championship playoffs after admitting to repeatedly spying on opponents
May 20, 2026
NATO’s top military officer says he doesn’t expect any more drawdowns of American troops from Europe — at least not anytime soon — beyond the 5,000 that U.S. President Donald Trump announced would leave the continent
May 19, 2026
Mango founder’s son arrested in connection to father’s plunging death
May 20, 2026
The Cannes Film Festival is not a place that’s conducive to taking your time
May 19, 2026
Two Married at First Sight UK wives claim they were raped by onscreen husbands
May 20, 2026
Jonathan Andic, the son of Mango's billionaire founder, has posted bail following his arrest in connection with the death of his billionaire father
May 19, 2026
Tilda Swinton, Demi Moore and Stella Maxwell: The best closing looks from Cannes Film Festival
May 13, 2026
Millions of Palestinians are marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba
May 15, 2026
Two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out of the grass-court Grand Slam event next month because of his lingering wrist injury
May 19, 2026
Police in the UK are investigating two allegations of decades-old child sex abuse linked to Jeffrey Epstein
May 19, 2026
Authorities say a NATO fighter jet shot down a Ukrainian drone over southern Estonia
May 19, 2026
Hungary's new prime minister, Péter Magyar, is visiting Poland, a traditional ally that can offer plenty of lessons on political transformation and restoring democratic norms
May 19, 2026
British police plan to ask prosecutors to consider charging 57 people and 20 organizations over the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London
May 19, 2026
Divers have recovered the bodies of two Italian divers from an underwater cave in the Maldives
May 19, 2026
Pep Guardiola has addressed the fevered speculation about his future at Manchester City by saying he will talk to club chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak in the upcoming days before announcing whether he’ll see out the remaining year of his contract
May 19, 2026
Rescue teams in Germany are searching for three people missing after a building collapsed in the eastern city of Görlitz near the Polish border
May 19, 2026
Stellantis' CEO Antonio Filosa will outline a new long-term strategy to investors on Thursday with a focus on reviving crucial U.S. sales, tightening the
May 19, 2026
Bodies of four missing Italian divers located in Maldives sea cave
May 17, 2026
Neymar has made Brazil’s World Cup squad
May 19, 2026
The U.S. says it's pausing participation on a joint board with Canada for continental defense that dates to World War II
May 19, 2026
Arsenal has closed in on a first Premier League title in 22 years by beating Burnley 1-0 in its penultimate game of the campaign
May 19, 2026
Swatch's new Royal Pop pocket watch has sparked outbursts of chaos worldwide
May 19, 2026
Truck crashes into Burger King; Restaurant closed
May 19, 2026
Explosion at Searsmont lumber mill kills Maine firefighter, leaves multiple in critical condition
May 19, 2026
The Israeli military has intercepted boats in international waters off the coast of Cyprus, part of a flotilla attempting to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza
May 18, 2026
Swiss watchmaker Swatch and luxury partner Audemars Piguet are betting big on a Gen Z "product drop" culture - buzzy, often limited launches that have helped
May 18, 2026
Sprawling action movies with aliens do not generally compete for the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or
May 18, 2026
Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen says a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy to the Arctic, Jeff Landry, was positive but emphasized Greenland's commitment to self-determination
May 18, 2026
A gun and notebook that prosecutors say link Luigi Mangione to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson can be used as evidence at his murder trial
May 18, 2026
FIFA has added another gambling industry sponsor to the 2026 World Cup by signing Greece-based betting brand Betano to a regional deal covering Europe and South America
May 18, 2026
German golfer Leonie Harm has won her first professional title on the Ladies European Tour, 13 years after nearly dying when she was hit by a drunken driver
May 18, 2026
By sweeping the first five Masters 1000 tournaments of the year top-ranked Jannik Sinner has dominated tennis like few other players have in the sport’s recent history
May 18, 2026
Dodging the drones: Aerial attackers stalk Ukrainian troops, and a CNN team, on a key road to the front
May 18, 2026
The death toll in the latest fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon has surpassed 3,000
May 18, 2026
Spanish court orders tax authority to repay Shakira $64 million over wrongful fines
May 18, 2026
Italy’s Foreign Ministry says rescuers have found the bodies of four Italian divers inside an underwater cave in the Maldives
May 18, 2026
European leaders are learning they cannot rely on Washington, and that the US will act against their interests and at their economic expense.
May 18, 2026
Due to the vagaries of her music manuscripts and the historical neglect of women composers, Bembo and her opera were overlooked for centuries.
May 18, 2026
Swatch and Audemars Piguet’s ‘high-low’ collab sparked a frenzy. Who’s the real winner?
May 18, 2026
A Spanish court has acquitted pop star Shakira in a tax fraud case and ordered the government to return over 55 million euros in wrongly imposed fines
May 18, 2026
Russia has high expectations for President Vladimir Putin's trip to China this week, and the two sides will use it to develop their "privileged partnership", the Kremlin
May 18, 2026
Barcelona has capped a perfect season at home
May 18, 2026
Barbra Streisand says she won’t attend the Cannes Film Festival ceremony where she was to receive an honorary Palme d’Or after sustaining a knee injury
May 18, 2026
Bulgarians celebrated on Sunday their country's surprise first win in the Eurovision Song Contest as they welcomed home Dara, who triumphed with her catchy, crowd-pleasing,
May 17, 2026
Cate Blanchett says that the #MeToo movement “got killed very quickly” in remarks at the Cannes Film Festival
May 18, 2026
The full range of Sandra Hüller’s talent is on full display this year in four films that run from big to small
May 17, 2026
Hundreds of cheering fans waving Bulgarian flags have welcomed Eurovision Song Contest winner Dara upon her return home
May 17, 2026
Library founded in 1854 receives book checked out over 100 years ago
May 18, 2026
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella travelled to the northern city of Modena on Sunday, a day after several people were
May 17, 2026
Russian officials say overnight Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least four people including three near Moscow
May 17, 2026
Ukraine attack ‘largest in over a year’ on Moscow, Russian state media reports
May 17, 2026
Four bystanders tackle knife-wielding driver after car plows into crowd in Italy
May 17, 2026
Chelsea has hired Xabi Alonso as its latest manager on a four-year deal, with the former Real Madrid coach set to take over on July 1
May 17, 2026
Wes Streeting's ambition to head the British government was one of the worst-kept secrets in U.K. politics
May 17, 2026
Conor McGregor is returning the octagon
May 17, 2026
This tiny center in a UK seaside town is the first place vessels under attack in the Persian Gulf call
May 17, 2026
Ronda Rousey stopped Gina Carano with her signature armbar just 17 seconds into the iconic fighters’ mixed martial arts comeback bout
May 17, 2026
Bulgaria has won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest with singer Dara’s party anthem “Bangaranga.”
May 16, 2026
Bulgaria wins Eurovision, Israel finishes second amid boycotts over its participation
May 17, 2026
Bulgarian singer Dara’s dance anthem “Bangaranga” has won the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, her country's first ever win in the competition
May 17, 2026
The 2026 Eurovision Song Contest final in Vienna has showcased acts from 25 countries
May 17, 2026
A driver has plowed into pedestrians in the northern Italian city of Modena, injuring eight people, four of them critically, before trying to flee and being detained by police, local authorities said
May 16, 2026
Britain’s hard right on the march as tens of thousands descend on London
May 17, 2026
Police say 43 people were arrested in London in connection two rival marches on the streets of capital
May 16, 2026
Britain’s government is in turmoil, and some see Andy Burnham as the one to save it
May 16, 2026
Real Madrid’s Álvaro Arbeloa has given his blessing to former boss José Mourinho amid intense speculation that the Portuguese coach is set to replace him and start a second stint at the European powerhouse
May 16, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a two-day trip to Beijing next week, the Kremlin says
May 16, 2026
Spain is boycotting this year’s edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, after repeatedly expressing disapproval over Israel’s participation
May 16, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence in a sign of his ongoing concern about the technology
May 16, 2026
The Pentagon is drawing down thousands of troops in Europe by stopping units from deploying to Poland and Germany as opposed to yanking those already stationed there
May 15, 2026
Britain's government faces uncertainty as the Labour Party grapples with internal turmoil
May 15, 2026
Switzerland has begun its quest for a first ice hockey world championship title by defeating the United States 3-1
May 15, 2026
Maldivian authorities have suspended a high-risk operation to recover the bodies of four Italian divers believed trapped inside a deep underwater cave, after one body was recovered the day before
May 15, 2026
A bold, bloody queer slasher film starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson gave the Cannes Film Festival a gonzo jolt
May 15, 2026
English has long dominated pop music, but it no longer reigns supreme at the Eurovision Song Contest
May 15, 2026
The Pentagon has canceled plans to deploy 4,000 U.S.-based troops to Poland, two U.S. officials said, a surprise decision slammed by lawmakers that renewed questions
May 15, 2026
Elon Musk's social media platform X is pledging to crack down on hate and terrorist content in Britain
May 15, 2026
Oleksandr Usyk wants to make some “noise” before he calls time on a career that has made him the most dominant heavyweight boxer of his generation
May 15, 2026
As many actors are appearing at the Cannes Film Festival this week, the best role in town might be a little further down the Croisette
May 15, 2026
French singer and actor Claudine Longet has died at age 84
May 15, 2026
At the Eurovision Song Contest, performers get just three minutes to impress
May 15, 2026
Austrian artist Valie Export, whose pioneering work and performance art made her a leading light of the avant-garde feminist scene in postwar Europe, has died in Vienna at the age
May 15, 2026
Trump is cutting the numbers of US troops in Europe. Here’s how
May 15, 2026
Real Madrid fans have made their discontentment known by jeering players at the Santiago Bernabeu before a 2-0 win over already relegated Oviedo
May 15, 2026
The Princess of Wales’ visit to Italy highlights the Reggio Approach, an educational model that values a child’s curiosity and potential
May 14, 2026
Czech police detained a 35-year-old man suspected of stealing a revered 800-year-old saint's skull from a church in the northern Czech Republic this week, they said on
May 15, 2026
Russia carried out its largest aerial attack over a two-day period since the start of its war in Ukraine, pounding the capital Kyiv and
May 14, 2026
Russia hammers Ukraine in biggest prolonged drone attack since war began
May 14, 2026
Efforts to unseat British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have erupted into open rebellion within his party
May 14, 2026
Leading challenger to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer quits government
May 14, 2026
Latvian center-right Prime Minister Evika Silina has resigned after losing support from the Progressives Party, her left-leaning coalition partner
May 14, 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would resign, with a new leader to be in place by the time parliament returns in September, paving the way for Britain to have
February 10, 2026
Using artificial intelligence to "jump straight to the result" could mean art fails to achieve its purposes of self-expression and to deepen our
May 14, 2026
A U.N. war crimes court said on Thursday it had denied a bid for early release by Ratko Mladic, the 84-year-old Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide and crimes
May 14, 2026
British Labour lawmaker Josh Simons on Thursday said he would resign from his seat in parliament in a move designed to give Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham a chance to
May 14, 2026
Revenues at Italian luxury group Ferragamo fell 1.2% at constant exchange rates in the first quarter as wholesale sales dropped 19% compared to a year earlier, the company
May 14, 2026
Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill said on Thursday a "prompt but modest" increase in interest rates would help to head off the risk of inflation pressure caused by
May 14, 2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday called for a revamp of what he cast as the European Union's outdated budget system,
May 14, 2026
European shares closed higher on Thursday, after hitting the highest in a week with a boost from technology stocks, while investors remained cautious
May 14, 2026
Latvia's centre-right Prime Minister Evika Silina said on Thursday she had resigned, triggering the collapse of her coalition government just
May 14, 2026
Britain's Princess of Wales learned how to make pasta on Thursday during a visit to a hillside community in northern Italy's so-called food valley, an area globally known for
May 14, 2026
Denmark's Queen Margrethe, 86, was admitted to hospital due to angina on Thursday, the royal court said.
May 14, 2026
Italian heritage groups have said they will battle proposals to build a new structure near Rome's Borghese Gallery, saying the project would damage one of
May 14, 2026
King Charles was greeted by cheering crowds on Thursday when he visited an area of London which has suffered a spate of antisemitic attacks in recent weeks, in a show of
May 14, 2026
Italy's defence minister said on Thursday he had written twice to the Treasury urging a decision on whether to tap a European Union arms-
May 14, 2026
Pope Leo on Thursday decried rising European military spending, which grew last year by the highest amount since the end of the Cold War amid pressure from
May 14, 2026
An Italian parents' group and a number of families faced off against Meta and TikTok on Thursday in the first hearing of a lawsuit that seeks to restrict
May 14, 2026
Horde of amorous peacocks ruffles feathers in Italian seaside town
May 14, 2026
Hungary's government has summoned Russia's ambassador over a massive drone attack near its border with Ukraine
May 14, 2026
The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced in New York to 15 years in prison for trying to recruit others to commit violent acts against Jews and racial minorities
May 14, 2026
Prince Harry warns of ‘deeply troubling rise’ in antisemitism in UK after spate of attacks
May 14, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's former right-hand man was taken into custody on Thursday on money-laundering charges, part of a
May 14, 2026
Britain's economy grew unexpectedly in March to cap another strong first quarter, suggesting it was in better shape as the Iran war escalated
May 14, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron faces a test next week when lawmakers decide whether to approve his former chief of staff to run the
May 14, 2026
Russia has launched a mass drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, injuring at least four people
May 14, 2026
Luciano Darderi reaches the Italian Open semifinals after defeating teenager Rafael Jodar in a match that ended after 2 a.m. local time
May 13, 2026
Buyers in Britain's housing market stayed downbeat last month as the economic fallout from the Iran war and rising mortgage rates weighed on sentiment, a survey from the Royal
May 14, 2026
Russia unleashed a massive daytime drone attack on Ukraine on Wednesday, targeting critical infrastructure in the west, killing at least six people and
May 13, 2026
The U.S. military says the remains of the second U.S. Army soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco have been recovered
May 14, 2026
Barcelona’s hopes of reaching the 100-point mark in the Spanish league have ended with a 1-0 loss at Alaves
May 14, 2026
Britain’s Princess Catherine is making her first overseas trip since announcing her cancer is in remission
May 13, 2026
Israel's contestant at the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Tuesday heard the boos of a small number of pro-Palestinian protesters
May 14, 2026
The Premier League title race is not over yet
May 14, 2026
Broadcom is suing EU antitrust regulators over their requests for documents containing legal advice from its U.S. lawyers in a case related to VMware,
May 13, 2026
'Spark Interactive' trailer brings Holocaust education into the digital age
May 14, 2026
Russia has launched a massive daytime drone attack on Ukraine, firing at least 800 drones across 20 regions of the country
May 13, 2026
Christie's says a 5.5-carat triangular-cut diamond billed as the largest fancy vivid blue-green diamond known to exist has sold for more than 13.5 million Swiss francs or $17.3 million
May 14, 2026
A cruise ship, carrying more than 1,000 passengers many of whom are British, remained stranded in Bordeaux on Wednesday after an outbreak
May 13, 2026
London police said on Wednesday they would mount an "unprecedented" operation this weekend to prevent violence and serious disorder when two large protests
May 13, 2026
French authorities are examining whether a foreign interference campaign aimed at a hard-left party ahead of March's municipal
May 13, 2026
Moscow authorities have imposed restrictions on the publication of photos and videos showing the aftermath of "terrorist attacks", including drone strikes, the office of
May 13, 2026
Hungary has summoned Russia's ambassador over a drone attack on western Ukraine, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Wednesday.
May 13, 2026
Procession honors Maine Warden who died in Tuesday plane crash
May 14, 2026
1,700 passengers held on cruise ship over potential acute stomach bug sickness
May 13, 2026
French authorities have ordered over 1,700 passengers and crew on a British cruise ship to stay on board due to a gastrointestinal illness outbreak
May 13, 2026
Latvia's Prime Minister Evika Silina was left without a ruling majority in the parliament on Wednesday after the left-wing Progressives
May 13, 2026
France's highest administrative court, the Conseil d'Etat, rejected on Wednesday a challenge by Internet giant Amazon over minimum delivery fees on books, as the country
May 13, 2026
Mexican director Guillermo del Toro received the longest-ever standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival two decades ago for his historical fantasy "
May 13, 2026
Britain's grand State Opening of Parliament ceremony does not normally feature an elephant.
May 13, 2026
Russia has placed British former defence minister Ben Wallace on a wanted list in connection with an unspecified criminal investigation, state media said on Wednesday,
May 13, 2026
Venus Williams will play in the women’s doubles at the French Open this month together with Hailey Baptiste, who is 21 years her junior
May 13, 2026
The cast of “The Fast and the Furious” rolled into the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday for a 25th anniversary celebration of the nitrous-boosting franchise
May 13, 2026
Apple on Wednesday echoed Google's criticism of EU antitrust regulators' efforts to force the search giant to help AI rivals access its services, warning
May 13, 2026
Keir Starmer was facing his biggest challenge yet on Wednesday when his health minister was reportedly readying his
May 13, 2026
JPMorgan is open to engaging with France's far-right National Rally (RN) ahead of next year's presidential election, a senior regional executive at the
May 13, 2026
Seventeen people under observation in Italy and Spain for possible hantavirus infection have tested negative, the countries'
May 13, 2026
Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's right-wing Reform UK party, on Thursday said a 5 million pound ($6.75 million) donation from a cryptocurrency billionaire he received
May 13, 2026
Just two weeks after Turkey's parliament made recommendations on how to advance the country's peace process with Kurdish
May 13, 2026
Britain’s Princess of Wales on Wednesday visited the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, renowned for its approach to early
May 13, 2026
Russia's repeated airspace violations of countries on the eastern flank of NATO underline the urgent need to consolidate the alliance's air defences against missiles and
May 13, 2026
Princess Kate visits Italy in first official overseas trip since cancer treatment
May 13, 2026
A German court ruled on Wednesday that U.S.-based food giant Mondelez misled buyers by shrinking its Milka chocolate bars from 100 grams to 90 grams without significantly altering
May 13, 2026
A public quarrel between two of France's most famous young men - one a soccer player, the other a darling of the far right - over
May 13, 2026
Britain will legislate to strengthen its ability to deal with proxies for malign state actors, taking powers to make it possible to ban them in light of
May 13, 2026
Current European Union rules such as an outright ban on internal combustion car engines in 2035 have not spurred the intended shift to electric vehicles, Mercedes Benz
May 13, 2026
Britain will introduce legislation to strengthen its ties with the European Union, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer prioritises mending economic relations
May 13, 2026
A Russian ship that sank after its engine room exploded in the Mediterranean could have been carrying parts for nuclear reactors used in submarines, according to Spanish government documents
May 13, 2026
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to visit Britain and Italy before attending a Group of Seven leaders' summit in France in mid-June, broadcaster NTV reported on
May 13, 2026
British police said on Wednesday they had recovered the bodies of three women from the sea in Brighton and were working to establish how the "tragic incident" had happened.
May 13, 2026
The European Central Bank will hike its deposit rate next month and at least once more this year to try to stop the energy price shock from the Middle
May 13, 2026
Hungary's new government, under Prime Minister Peter Magyar, was sworn in earlier this week, replacing Prime Minister Viktor Orban's administration after 16 years.
May 13, 2026
European Central Bank board member Frank Elderson on Wednesday urged banks in the euro area to quickly prepare for potential cyberattacks launched with the help of
May 13, 2026
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will aim to reassert his authority over his Labour Party on Wednesday as his government unveils 37 bills for the next
May 13, 2026
German wholesale prices climbed to a three-year high of 6.3% in April as the Iran war pushed up the prices of energy and raw materials,
May 13, 2026
Volkswagen's controlling family shareholders piled pressure on the automaker to overhaul its business model on Wednesday after the German company's ongoing
May 13, 2026
Amnesty International and Human Rights First on Wednesday urged Poland to stop cooperating with U.S. deportation flights transferring Ukrainian nationals via its
May 13, 2026
Finland's capital Helsinki has spent billions of euros on public transport and bicycle lanes — and plans more — despite mixed reactions from residents.
May 13, 2026
France's unemployment rate rose to 8.1% in the first quarter of 2026, its highest since 2021, the INSEE statistics agency reported on Wednesday, though it was still lower
May 13, 2026
EU-harmonised consumer prices in France rose 2.5% year-on-year in April, statistics office INSEE said on Wednesday, confirming a preliminary reading published late last month and
May 13, 2026
Siemens' orders rose more than expected in the first three months of the year, although its sales and profits slipped behind forecast and the Iran war has
May 13, 2026
Ukraine resumed drone attacks on Russia's oil refineries and ports on Wednesday, two days after a three-day ceasefire proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump expired.
May 13, 2026
The United Nations is likely to launch a fresh push to resolve the decades-old split of Cyprus before the term of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expires at the end of
May 13, 2026
Spain will push ahead with new rules to make social networks and AI safer despite intense lobbying from the tech industry, its digital transformation
May 13, 2026
Ten countries have advanced to the Eurovision Song Contest final after the first semifinal
May 12, 2026
The 85-year-old French widow of a U.S. military veteran shares her experience in U.S. immigration detention
May 12, 2026
European Central Bank interest rate hikes are becoming increasingly likely, unless there is a fundamental change in the inflation outlook, Bundesbank President Joachim
May 13, 2026
Russian forces launched attacks in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region on Tuesday, killing at least six people, regional officials said, after the expiry of a U.S.-mediated ceasefire.
May 12, 2026
Britain said on Tuesday that 10 people from remote island territories, including cruise ship passengers and medical staff who had contact with confirmed cases in the
May 13, 2026
Antisemitic graffiti spray-painted on Lisbon 9/11 memorial
May 13, 2026
Top-ranked Jannik Sinner beat qualifier Andrea Pellegrino 6-2, 6-3 to reach the Italian Open quarterfinals and match Novak Djokovic’s record with a 31st consecutive Masters Series victory
May 12, 2026
Who could replace Keir Starmer as Labour leader and Britain’s prime minister?
May 13, 2026
French companies have so far absorbed the shock from the conflict in the Middle East, but pervasive uncertainty and higher energy costs are beginning to test the economy's
May 13, 2026
Meta Platforms has offered to give rival AI chatbots free access to its social messaging service WhatsApp for a month while it discusses ways to resolve EU
May 13, 2026
A top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday the mandate of Bosnia's next international peace envoy would be more limited, saying that the departure of the German politician currently in the
May 13, 2026
Ukrainian drone pilots turned a military exercise in Sweden into a critical warning for NATO
May 12, 2026
From a rout in Asian currencies to the closure of a low budget
May 12, 2026
Britain's long-dated government borrowing costs have surged to their highest since 1998 as concern that a potential change in leadership could weaken
May 12, 2026
After years in which Volodymyr Zelenskiy's wartime reputation withstood corruption allegations that swirled around his associates, the
May 12, 2026
Britain said on Tuesday it would contribute autonomous mine-hunting equipment, Typhoon fighter jets and the warship HMS Dragon to a multinational defensive mission aimed at
May 12, 2026
Keir Starmer was once hailed as the leader who would bring pragmatism and stability to Britain after years of political chaos.
May 12, 2026
Hungary's new prime minister, Peter Magyar, on Tuesday gave veto powers over legislation to four ministers including Finance Minister Andras Karman, who
May 12, 2026
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting for his political survival after a disastrous set of results in local elections for his Labour Party last week
May 12, 2026
The Kremlin has released a video of Vladimir Putin driving in Moscow and meeting an old school teacher in a hotel lobby, after Western media outlets cited a
May 12, 2026
Italian energy group Eni has asked Morgan Stanley to help it to raise funds from investment firms such as Apollo, KKR and Stonepeak in
May 12, 2026
European satellite operator Eutelsat on Tuesday reported third-quarter revenue broadly in line with market expectations, as growth in its low Earth orbit
May 12, 2026
The Kremlin repeated Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertion that the war in Ukraine was almost over on Tuesday and U.S.
May 12, 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer defied calls to resign on Tuesday, telling ministers he would get on with governing despite
May 12, 2026
U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla will increase its investment in battery cell production at its plant outside Berlin by almost $250 million, boosting its capacity target
May 12, 2026
The head of the European Commission called on Tuesday for more protections for children against the "addictive designs" of social media
May 12, 2026
What is the Schengen Shuffle and who’s doing it?
May 12, 2026
Two national agencies fighting corruption in Ukraine have named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former chief of staff as an official suspect in a major graft investigation
May 12, 2026
Greece’s defense minister has confirmed that a military sea drone discovered on a Greek island last week is Ukrainian built
May 12, 2026
Stellantis Chief Executive Antonio Filosa said on Tuesday partnerships would be a key part of the automaker's future strategy, as it prepares to present a new multi-year
May 12, 2026
Private credit funds have marked down more than a tenth of their loans by at least 50%, new data from
May 12, 2026
Italian industrial output rose by 0.7% in March compared to the previous month, data showed on Tuesday, offering some hope to the country's long-struggling manufacturing
May 12, 2026
Bytedance's social media platform TikTok on Tuesday made a last- ditch attempt at Europe's top court to scrap its designation as a "gatekeeper" under EU
May 12, 2026
U.S. artificial intelligence giant OpenAI said it was granting access to its latest models including GPT-5.5-Cyber to Deutsche Telekom, BBVA and dozens more
May 12, 2026
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May 12, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced new investments in Africa at a summit held in Kenya
May 12, 2026
First on CNN: New report details ‘systematic’ rape and sexual violence during Hamas’ Oct 7 attack on Israel
May 12, 2026
Meta Platforms on Tuesday lost its fight against an Italian regulatory order that it should compensate publishers for using snippets of their news
May 12, 2026
Investors increased their bets on the Bank of England raising rates in the coming months as global markets responded to the latest increase in tensions in the Strait of
May 12, 2026
Thyssenkrupp Nucera has frozen hiring in high-cost countries as part of broader saving measures, it said on Tuesday, after its second-
May 12, 2026
Greg Abbott is planning his summer holiday with half an eye on the Iran war.
May 12, 2026
Siemens Energy will accelerate its standing share buyback programme after posting a 42% increase in pre-tax free cash flow, the company said on Tuesday, benefitting from
May 12, 2026
Vanguard will expand its product range for everyday investors in Europe, aiming to roughly double its regional assets to $1 trillion within five years and
May 12, 2026
The coffee might be poured by a human hand, but behind the counter something far less traditional is calling the shots at an experimental cafe in Stockholm
May 11, 2026
A 27-year-old man suspected of plotting a violent attack and of planning to join Islamic State in Syria or Mozambique had sought to target a Parisian museum and the Jewish
May 12, 2026
British consumers, shaken by the widening economic fallout from the Iran war, cut their spending last month for the first time since November 2024 as they focused on essentials
May 12, 2026
The fifth and deciding game of the PWHL's semifinal playoff series between Minnesota and Montreal scheduled for Monday night has been postponed
May 12, 2026
UK leader Starmer fights to save premiership as scores of Labour lawmakers urge him to resign
May 12, 2026
A Texas man accused of killing his pregnant wife fled to Italy weeks before trial. He’s asking a judge not to send him back
May 12, 2026
Keir Starmer came under renewed pressure on Monday when four ministerial aides stepped down and more than 70 Labour
May 11, 2026
A stoppage time goal from Jonathan Rowe has given Bologna a 3-2 win against Napoli in a pulsating Serie A encounter
May 12, 2026
Ukrainian authorities on Monday named President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's powerful former chief of staff as a suspect in a major corruption probe, a move likely to pile
May 12, 2026
European Union foreign ministers reached an agreement on Monday on new sanctions targeting violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, as well as leading Hamas
May 11, 2026
Orthodox Christian bishops in Georgia elected a new patriarch, Shio III, on Monday, in what is a pivotal juncture for the South Caucasus country where the Church plays an
May 11, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday discussed with the United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan UAE's assistance in bringing Ukrainians back from
May 11, 2026
This week's Eurovision Song Contest, already stung by boycotts over Israeli participation, is also facing a test of new public-voting rules introduced to
May 11, 2026
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a five-nation tour taking in the United Arab Emirates and Europe from May 15-20, India's foreign ministry said in a statement on
May 11, 2026
The Beatles are returning to one of their iconic sites with a new fan experience in London
May 11, 2026
European governments on Monday rejected a suggestion by Russian President Vladimir Putin that former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
May 11, 2026
Tales of war, grief and artificial intelligence join a race for the 2026 Cannes Film Festival's top prize from Tuesday, in a
May 11, 2026
Democrats press ICE on oversight, say 1 officer referred for discipline over use of force
Red Sox win their 15th straight game, matching club-record streak from 80 years ago
Former WNBA stars Lauren Jackson, Elena Delle Donne to compete in All-Star shooting competition
Yankees' José Caballero targeted by MLB for crackdown on plate routine of waiting to engage pitcher
ServiceNow raises annual subscription revenue forecast again on AI-driven demand
Texas Instruments forecasts quarterly revenue above estimates
Trump administration considers putting nuclear power plants in US waters