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Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are considering asking NATO to hold emergency talks amid a migration crisis at their borders with Belarus, Poland’s prime minister was Read more

Pope Francis on Sunday urged political and economic leaders to show courage and long-range vision, hours after U.N. led-climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, ended in Read more

People who are unvaccinated or who haven’t recently recovered from COVID-19 will have to go into lockdown from midnight, Austria’s chancellor has announced. “The situation Read more

While some hailed a pact that kept negotiators in Glasgow for an extra day, many activists and international leaders said that despite “some progress”, there’s Read more

Queen Elizabeth II has sprained her back and will not attend the Remembrance Sunday service in central London to remember Britain’s war dead, Buckingham Palace Read more

Kosovo is holding runoff municipal elections on Sunday in almost two-thirds of the country after the centre-right opposition parties dominated in the first round. About Read more

At the main hospital in Romania’s capital, the morgue ran out of space for the dead in recent days, and doctors in Bulgaria have suspended Read more

Children in Vienna, Austria will be able to receive a dose of a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine from Monday, authorities in the city said. A “pilot” vaccination Read more

Italy lost three more players on Saturday ahead of its final World Cup qualifier against Northern Ireland. Alessandro Bastoni and Davide Calabria are both injured, Read more

Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of a British-Iranian woman who has been detained in Iran for five years, ended his hunger strike on Saturday after 21 Read more

About 100 anti-racism protesters chanted “Kick Out Black Pete” on Saturday at an event where children could meet the Dutch version of Santa Claus and Read more

Angela Merkel urged unvaccinated Germans to get a COVID-19 jab to curb the spread of the virus during the winter. “If we stand together, if Read more

Polish police said on Saturday that a young Syrian was found dead near the border with Belarus amid an ongoing crisis there. The police in Read more

The COP26 climate conference which was scheduled to end on Friday will continue on Saturday to allow for one more night of negotiation. Alok Sharma, Read more

French authorities are investigating an alleged rape that occurred earlier this year in the presidential Elysee Palace, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Friday. A woman Read more

Two Russian servicemen died in western Belarus near the Polish border on Friday during joint airborne exercises with Minsk. The Russian defence ministry said in Read more

The British government and the European Commission are to continue talks next week to seek a solution over disputed post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland. The Read more

A record number of migrants have crossed the English Channel in a single day, say UK authorities. At least 1,185 people reached the UK aboard Read more

Latvian MPs who have not been vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 will have their pay suspended and no longer be able to take part in Read more

A man convicted of terrorism in Belgium has been arrested trying to enter Bulgaria, authorities have said. The suspect was detained on Wednesday during a Read more

Portugal’s Catholic Church has said it will set up a national committee to investigate the sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults. The new authority Read more

Food delivery services in Germany must either give their couriers bicycles and mobile phones to use for work or pay them compensation, the country’s Federal Read more

“Hybrid warfare” – that’s what European politicians have called Alexander Lukashenko’s policy towards the EU. The leader of Belarus is accused of facilitating the transport Read more

The man who organised the fatal flight of footballer Emiliano Sala has been jailed for 18 months by a Cardiff court. David Henderson was found Read more

Authorities in several western European countries are gearing up for potential new restrictions to curb rising cases of the coronavirus, as the pandemic casts a Read more

Belarus’ state-run airline said on Friday that it is banning Syrians, Iraqis and Yemenis from incoming flights from Turkey at Ankara’s request after Minsk was Read more

Here is the latest data on COVID-19 infections and deaths in Europe. Despite some progress on getting the continent vaccinated, there are fears of a Read more

Austria’s chancellor on Thursday stepped up threats of lockdown measures for unvaccinated people, as new coronavirus cases in the Alpine nation are soaring. The country’s Read more

Slovakia’s parliament on Thursday narrowly rejected proposed legislation that would have tightened access to abortion in the European Union country. The bill was rejected by Read more

This summer, 29-year-old Olga Alkhimenka was one of the last independent journalists to leave Belarus. It came as the authorities launched a hunt for the Read more