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The French government is considering extending the use of the COVID-19 pass to the workplace which unions decry as a covert attempt to impose mandatory Read more

Denmark has agreed on a deal to rent 300 jail cells in Kosovo to ease prison overcrowding in the Scandinavian country. The agreement, which saw Read more

Dubai’s ruler Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum was ordered on Tuesday to pay more than €640 million to his ex-wife and their children, in what is Read more

Thousands were expected to take to the street of Bucharest on Tuesday as Romanian MPs vote on whether to extend the use of the COVID Read more

A man who had kept a woman hostage overnight in a Parisian shop was arrested on Tuesday morning. The incident, at a hardware store in Read more

Europe is once again seeing a surge of COVID-19 cases — here is our summary of the measures being taken across the continent. In some Read more

The aggressive cellphone break-ins of a high-profile lawyer representing top Polish opposition figures came in the final weeks of pivotal 2019 parliamentary elections. Two years Read more

The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell speeded to a finish on Monday with a prosecutor labelling her a dangerous and sophisticated predator who recruited and groomed Read more

Queen Elizabeth II has decided not to spend Christmas at the royal Sandringham estate in eastern England amid concerns about the fast-spreading omicron variant. The Read more

The Scottish Parliament could soon consider pardons for thousands of people — mostly women — who were put on trial and executed centuries ago for Read more

Prosecutors at the murder trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with involvement in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Read more

As the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union enters its final days, Ljubljana has come under the spotlight in Brussels — but Read more

French police have detected 182,000 fake COVID passes since they were introduced this summer, the interior ministry said on Monday. The latest figure is significantly Read more

Hundreds of social media accounts have been flagged for encouraging illegal immigration into the EU from Belarus, Europol announced on Monday. The bloc’ law enforcement Read more

An NGO has filed a lawsuit against French and British authorities over their failure to rescue 27 migrants who died in the English Channel last Read more

The European union’s drugs regulator will on Monday decide whether to authorise the use of Novavax’s vaccine against COVID-19 which its manufacturer claims can help Read more

The UK has urged out-of-work teachers to return to classrooms amid expected Omicron-induced staff shortages in the new year. Education minister Nadhim Zahawi made the Read more

Poles flocked to city centres across the country Sunday to defend a US-owned television network that is being targeted by the country’s right-wing government and Read more

Workers at Santa Claus Village, a holiday theme park on the edge of the Arctic Circle, chipped away at a frozen dome, using chisels to Read more

It’s not the average person who gets up on a winter’s morning, puts on a pair of cleats, and grabs a volleyball to play in Read more

Thousands of protesters rallied across Europe this weekend, as nations were moving to impose tougher measures to stem a new wave of COVID-19 infections spurred Read more

Brexit minister David Frost resigned Saturday night, adding to a sense of disarray within a government that has faced rebellion from its own lawmakers and Read more

Environmental activists protested outside government offices in Belgrade on Saturday to try to stop lithium mining in western Serbia. Last week, mining giant Rio Tinto Read more

The Netherlands is back to a nationwide lockdown starting Sunday to curb the Omicron variant, caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte said after a meeting with Read more

The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been detected in 89 countries and is spreading rapidly even in places with high levels of population immunity, the Read more

A discovery by Spanish scientists promises to have solved a long-standing archeological mystery. Researchers from the University of Seville and the Andalusian Institute of Historical Read more

A court decision that mandates that 25 per cent of all school subjects be taught in Spanish sparked protests in Barcelona on Saturday. Protesters claim Read more

It is highly unlikely that London and its allies would send troops to Ukraine in case of a Russian invasion, UK defence secretary Ben Wallace Read more

Russia published draft security demands that NATO deny membership to Ukraine and other former Soviet countries and roll back the alliance’s military deployments in Central Read more

Members of Germany’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have chosen prominent conservative Friedrich Merz as party leader. The appointment comes after the party had a Read more