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Charity Sea Watch said the ordinance was aimed at preventing the world from seeing what was happening...

Russia does not seek cooperation with Europe, and if European countries want to ensure peace and prosperity, they must set "clear boundaries" for Moscow, Czech President Petr Pavel said in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Die Presse published on May 11.

Marius Gustavson, 46, was involved in procedures that were ‘little short of human butchery’, UK court heard. The leader of a “grisly and gruesome” extreme body modification network who streamed mutilations on his “eunuch maker” website has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years....

A man arrested for allegedly attacking a woman with a box cutter shot and seriously wounded two officers in a Paris police station on Thursday, May 9, after grabbing one of their weapons. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP) the incident happened in the French capital's 13th arrondissement shortly before 10:30 pm and that one...

Reticence over the seizure of Russian state assets in Europe betrays a fatal underestimation of the threat Moscow poses

Paris rubbish collectors could strike over the summer, a major French union said Thursday, raising the spectre of piles of stinking trash on the streets during the Olympic Games. Walkouts could start in May and continue from July 1 to September 8, the CGT union branch representing binmen warned, a period that includes the Games,...

Commission president, who is seeking another term, took aim at group that includes AfD and National Rally in pre-election debate

About 46,000 aircraft have logged GPS problems over Baltic Sea since August, says report

Fleeing from war, the experience of Romani people in Germany differs from that of other Ukrainians. They often encounter racism instead of help. More than 1.1 million people have fled to Germany as a result of the war in Ukraine — including an estimated several thousand Romani refugees, members of Europe's largest minority....

Denys Shmyhal tells the BBC his country desperately needs the US to approve long-stalled security assistance.

With Slovakia the latest member to elect a Russia-leaning leader, the EU is increasingly open to hostile interference, says Chatham House’s Armida van Rij

Companies producing furniture for the Swedish multinational homeware brand IKEA are sourcing wood from some of Europe's last remaining old-growth forests in Romania, an investigation published by Greenpeace on Wednesday has revealed....

France’s government presented a bill Wednesday to allow adults with terminal cancer or other incurable illness to take lethal medication, as public demands grow for legal options for aid in dying....

Czech Transportation Minister Martin Kupka said that Russia has made "thousands of attempts to weaken our (railway) systems" since the beginning of the full-scale war.

"(Ukrainians) really depend on our help and we in turn depend on the fact that the Ukrainians are also fighting for the security of the whole of Europe, so we are in this together," Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said at the NATO-Ukraine Council meeting.

Abstract: For the past four decades, the ‘Secondary Products Revolution’ model, i.e., the exploitation of animal resources that do not involve killing the animal, such as the production of milk and wool and the use of animals for physical labour has been the object of heated discussion between Neolithic scholars. According...

The French Senate on Tuesday endorsed a Constitutional review project bearing significant modifications to the local electoral rules for New Caledonia, but with amendments. The text passed with 233 votes in favour and 99 against....

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s conservative government promised on Monday to offer extra financial aid and more staff to help the island of Crete and its tiny neighbour Gavdos handle a steep rise in arrivals of migrants trying to cross to Europe from Libya....

Watchdog examining claims key details have not been disclosed about altar tablets it is facing calls to return The British Museum is being investigated by the information watchdog over claims it has been overly secretive about some of the most sensitive items in its collection – a group of sacred Ethiopian altar tablets that...

Poor harvests in extreme weather conditions have led to a tripling of cocoa prices – but farmers have seen no benefit. Around the world this holiday weekend, people will consume hundreds of millions of Easter eggs and bunnies, as part of an annual chocolate intake that can exceed 8kg (18lb) for every person in the UK, or 5kg...

U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps urged Europe not to restrict imports from Ukraine, pointing out London's decision to extend tariff-free and quota-free imports from Ukraine for most goods for another five years.

Brazil and France announced on Tuesday the launch of an investment program in the Brazilian and Guyanese Amazon rainforest involving 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in private and public funds over the next four years, according to a joint statement.The announced was made during French President Emmanuel Macron's three-day visit...

A First World War German submarine last seen in 1917 has been found by a team of Guernsey specialist divers following a four-year search.Lying in more than 70m of water, the wreck of the UC II Class mine-laying submarine UC-18 and that of which they believe to be the British ship which sank her, HMS Lady Olive, have been located...

Rising global temperatures are accelerating inflation and will likely push the cost of food, goods and services higher for years to come, researchers warned Thursday, the latest example of how the climate crisis is affecting human health and the economy as the costs of adapting to a warming world grow....