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More than half of low-income workers in Europe cannot afford to take a one-week holiday away from home, according to research by the European Trade Read more

More than half of low-income workers in Europe cannot afford to take a one-week holiday away from home, according to research by the European Trade Read more

Greece is being hit by its worst heatwave in more than 30 years, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday as temperatures reached 45°C in Read more

An ancient Roman vessel dating back to the second century BC has been discovered in the Mediterranean Sea off the Sicilian coast of Palermo. The Read more

Italy’s prisons face serious overcrowding problems, with 53,637 people occupying space for 47,000, according to the annual report of Associazione Antigone, an Italian NGO working Read more

The 100 metres at the Olympics is the event that turns sprinters into kings: Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt. On one of the most Read more

Hackers have targeted an official website for booking COVID-19 vaccinations, Italian authorities have said. The website of Lazio, the region of Rome, was unavailable for Read more

Humanitarian ships rescued over 700 migrants off the coasts of Libya and Malta in just one weekend, NGO SOS Mediterranee said. The migrant aid group Read more

This week, after a process of catching up, the European Union finally placed itself among the world leaders with its vaccination drive, after hitting its Read more

The US mission in Russia announced on Friday it is letting go of more than 200 staff after Moscow banned Washington from contracting non-American on Read more

The Czech government announced on Friday that state employees who have received their COVID-19 vaccination will be entitled to two days paid holiday. The holiday Read more

Two men have stolen a haul of jewellery and €400,000 in cash from a boutique in central Paris. The robbery took place shortly before 12:30 Read more

Cuba’s foreign minister has hit out at the European Union after it expressed concern over protesters being detained on the island earlier this month. Bruno Read more

Nineteen people have been injured after a bus en route from Belgrade to Stockholm crashed south of Berlin. Police said the bus swerved off the Read more

In a significant shift in tone, Poland’s president Andrzej Duda said on Friday his country will need to change its law on disciplining judges, which Read more

One worker has died and six others are injured after a fire at a chemical plant in southern Russia, authorities have said. The accident occurred Read more

A politician hoping to replace Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel late this year has apologised for committing plagiarism in a 2009 book. Armin Laschet, the CDU Read more

Once a bustling eastern Flemish town of around 1000 inhabitants, today Doel is home to less than two dozen people. Among them are Kevin and Read more

Bulgaria’s President has urged his country’s political parties to hold coalition talks to avoid another parliamentary election. A second vote in July failed to result Read more

It started as a “sausage war” over chilled meat exports — now it is threatening to escalate into a long-term confrontation between the United Kingdom Read more

The remains of a missing British hiker have been found in the Pyrenees, her family has confirmed. Esther Dingley was reported missing last November while Read more

Operations to shelter around 600 homeless people who had pitched tents in a chic central Paris square began on Friday afternoon. Léa Filoche, deputy mayor Read more

Catalonia’s former leader Carles Puigdemont has been defeated in a bid to stop the loss of his European parliamentary immunity. MEP Puigdemont was in March Read more

A defendant has requested the recusal of top magistrates at The Hague-based court tasked with trying war crimes committed during the Kosovo war, accusing them Read more

At least four people have been killed in southern Turkey as forest fires rage near tourist coastal regions for a third day. Firefighters were still Read more

The Belarusian Association of Journalists on Thursday called on authorities in Belarus to transfer a jailed journalist to a civilian hospital so he could get Read more

Portugal is set to ease COVID-19 pandemic restrictions ahead of a forecast of 70% of people being fully vaccinated by the end of this summer, Read more

Two-thirds of workers want teleworking to continue once the COVID-19 pandemic is over, according to a new survey. The poll, carried out in 29 countries Read more

A German federal court has criticised Facebook for how it moderates content and handles “hate speech”. The court said the social network cannot delete posts Read more

Malta’s government must “bear responsibility” for the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, an independent inquiry has found. The probe said that Maltese authorities had Read more