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The United Kingdom rejected proposals from the European Union on Monday to solve post-Brexit trade disputes regarding the movement of medicines, livestock and animal products Read more

Russian health officials have approved testing a combination of the Sputnik V and Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. The Russian-developed jab will be mixed with the British-Swedish Read more

COVID-health passes or vaccination certificates are now required to access bars, restaurants and cultural venues in a number of European Union countries, triggering a number Read more

The European Union needs a vaccination coverage higher than 70% of adult population to stop the spread of new and highly transmissible COVID-19 variants, says Read more

Bosnian Serb politicians have said they will boycott the country’s institutions in protest at the United Nations high representative’s decision to ban genocide denial. The Read more

An explosion at a chemical park shook the German city of Leverkusen on Tuesday, sending a large black cloud into the air. Several people have Read more

Seventy percent of adults in the European Union have received at least one shot of the CVID-19 vaccines, Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen announced Read more

The Cuban Embassy in Paris was attacked with gasoline bombs, Cuba’s foreign minister said Monday night. Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez did not offer any details Read more

Retired university professor Bruno Courcelle was among the large and diverse crowd that took to the streets over two consecutive weekends to protest the government’s Read more

Four former senior officials have been convicted of organising the storming of North Macedonia’s parliament in 2017. The former President of the parliament, two former Read more

Russian authorities have blocked access to dozens of websites linked to jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Navalny’s allies said on Monday that the Kremlin critic’s Read more

The city of Brussels wants to install up to 11,000 charging stations by 2035, as it looks ahead to the transition towards electric vehicles. Earlier Read more

UK police have opened an investigation after a woman wearing a Charlie Hebdo t-shirt was stabbed in a London park. Videos shared on social media Read more

Two of Germany’s leading candidates for Chancellor have faced strong criticism for their behaviour, just two months ahead of the Federal elections. Armin Laschet, the Read more

The UK recorded a drop in new daily COVID-19 infections for the sixth day in a row on Sunday, leading to suggestions it may have Read more

Spanish firefighters say that soft rainfall is helping to extinguish a major forest fire in the northeastern Catalonia region. The fire has destroyed over 1,600 Read more

France and Greece are sending firefighting planes to Italy after Rome asked for help to tackle wildfires in Sardinia. Paris and Athens are deploying two Read more

Two London hospitals are on Monday urging people to visit other health facilities after being hit by floodings. The Barts Health NHS Trust has declared Read more

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, who led Portugal’s ‘Carnation’ Revolution in 1974 against the authoritarian Estado Novo, has died at the age of 84, at the Read more

France’s oldest, still active lighthouse, has been given UNESCO World Heritage status. Cordouan Lighthouse, on the Gironde estuary in southwest France, is nicknamed the “king Read more

Two years after the pandemic outbreak, one of the most iconic gay pride marches in Europe is back on the agenda. Christopher Street Day reunited Read more

The UN Security Council has demanded “the immediate reversal” of a unilateral decision by Turkey and Turkish Cypriot leaders to reopen the island’s abandoned suburb Read more

Consumers and poorer households must not bear the brunt of the drive to make buildings more energy-efficient, a member of the European Parliament has told Read more

Traffic on the world’s longest railway has been blocked after a bridge collapsed following heavy rain and flooding. Dozens of trains remain stuck on the Read more

The COVID-19 Delta variant is now dominant in much of Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The WHO and European Centre for Disease Read more

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved the use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 17. It is the first time the Read more

A gang of smugglers used luxury cars to transport hundreds of migrants from Turkey to Greece – sometimes driving at speeds of up to 250km/h Read more

Belgium marked its national day on Wednesday, with many people having the day off, but the atmosphere was subdued in large part due to last Read more

A Northern Ireland court has said that the 1998 Omagh bombing could have been prevented by UK authorities. Judges have ordered the UK and the Read more