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Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili is in need of urgent hospital treatment during his hunger strike, his doctor has said. Medical professionals say Saakashvili’s condition Read more

Three weeks since its eruption upended the lives of thousands, the volcano on Spain’s La Palma island is still spewing out endless streams of lava Read more

Austria’s Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg is set to be the country’s new chancellor following the resignation of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz amid claims of corruption. It Read more

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded on Monday to three economists who used natural experiments — those arising in real life — and Read more

Tens of thousands protested across Poland on Sunday in support of the European Union amid a bitter row with Brussels over the primacy of European Read more

Angela Merkel on Sunday accompanied Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial on her last visit to Israel as German Chancellor. Read more

The 13th Lumière film festival started in Lyon on Saturday. Many famous faces were at the opening including Rossy de Palma, Irène Jacob, Costa-Gavras, Alain Read more

Demands from London over the Northern Irish Protocol risks a “further breakdown in relations” with the European Union, Ireland’s Foreign Minister warned on Sunday. Simon Read more

Czech President Milos Zeman was admitted to intensive care on Sunday after being rushed to hospital. His doctor that he could not give further information Read more

There were violent clashes in Rome at the weekend as thousands protested moves to extend Italy’s COVID pass to all workplaces from October 15. A Read more

Fifteen people were killed on Sunday after a plane carrying civilian parachutists crashed in central Russia. The Czech-made L-410 plane crashed at 9.23am (0623 GMT) Read more

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Saturday that he plans to step down in an effort to defuse a government crisis triggered by prosecutors’ announcement that Read more

The dispute over the ruling by Poland’s constitutional court that the country’s laws have primacy over those of the European Union rumbled on Saturday as Read more

A few friends, a projector, and a shop’s shutter — it doesn’t take much to recreate the magic of cinema — but bringing the cinema Read more

Czechs voted in a parliamentary election for a final day Saturday, with polls suggesting Prime Minister Andrej Babis, a populist billionaire, has a good chance Read more

When Russian regulators approved the country’s own coronavirus vaccine, it was a moment of national pride, and the Pavlov family was among those who rushed Read more

Hundred of migrants and refugees from Africa and Asia live in an abandoned farm in Kárásztanya on the Serbian side of the border with Hungary. Read more

Norway’s Labour Partry says it has agreed to form a new minority government with the rural Centre party. Talks between the two parties had been Read more

The European Commission will announce a “bespoke” arrangement for Northern Ireland on Wednesday, senior EU sources have told Euronews, in a bid to end the Read more

Turkey has acquitted 19 people who had been prosecuted for organising and participating in a Pride march. A Turkish court had ruled that the students Read more

Portugal has moved a step forward in stamping out gay prejudice in blood donation programmes. The country’s parliament approved four bills on Friday that enshrine Read more

In a decision that sent shockwaves through Europe, Poland’s constitutional court on Thursday ruled the country’s laws had supremacy of those of the European Union. Read more

Brussels has vowed to use all tools at its disposal to reassert the supremacy of EU law against the ruling of Poland’s Constitutional Court, but Read more

Authorities in Georgia have launched a rescue operation after part of a residential building collapsed. The seven-story building came down in the centre of the Read more

Poland’s prime minister has expressed support for the country’s border troops after they were reportedly fired on from Belarus. A spokeswoman for the Polish Border Read more

Dozens of people have been killed after an explosion at a Shiite Muslim mosque in northern Afghanistan. A local Taliban police official has said that Read more

COVID-19 cases continue to surge in some European countries while governments work to extend vaccination campaigns to prevent more deaths due to the virus. Romania’s Read more

Italian citizens have held a minute’s silence to remember victims, 20 years after the Linate plane accident. Memorials were held at 08:10 at every airport Read more

Danish health authorities have reversed a decision to stop offering the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to under 18s amid fears it was linked to higher rates Read more

Russian authorities say that at least 18 people have died after drinking “dangerous” unmarked alcoholic drinks. The beverages contained a highly toxic concentration of methanol Read more