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Employees who are required to get a COVID-19 vaccine and refuse can be dismissed, the Latvian parliament has said. Under a legal change, Latvian companies Read more

Spain has extended the availability of free IVF treatment to single women and the LGBT+ community. Health minister Carolina Darias signed an order on Friday Read more

Flash flooding has caused evacuations and closed schools in parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Heavy rain on Friday submerged a number of local and country Read more

A Paris court will today deliver a verdict in the case of Emmanuel Macron’s former bodyguard, who stands accused of violence during a protest. Prosecutors Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin marked the national Unity Day holiday with a trip to Crimea, declaring the region will always be a part of Russia. Read more

One person was killed and another seriously injured after a train accidentally hit four migrants who were walking on tracks in Calais, northern France. The Read more

Greece’s powerful Orthodox Church on Thursday urged members of its congregations to attend services with vaccination or test certificates, as the country’s daily number of Read more

Watching with fear as the coronavirus rages in neighbouring countries, doctors in Bosnia are bracing for a new wave in the Balkan nation that has Read more

Pope Francis has appointed the first-ever woman to head the governorate of the Vatican City. Sister Raffaella Petrini will serve as secretary-general of the Governorate Read more

The president of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman has left intensive care at a Prague hospital, officials say. Zeman has now been transferred to a Read more

Both the EU and US central banks have signalled that interest rates won’t be raised just yet, despite inflation rates increasing significantly over the past Read more

Magdalena Andersson was on Thursday unanimously elected as the new leader of Sweden’s Social Democrats (SAP) party, paving the way for her to become the Read more

The MP at the centre of the lobbying furore gripping British politics has resigned. Owen Paterson was found to have lobbied the government in 2016 Read more

A 28-year-old mother in Germany has been jailed for life for murdering five of her six children at their home last year. The regional court Read more

The mother of one of the 2015 Bataclan concert hall attackers is facing trial in Paris, accused of “financing terrorism”. Fatima Hajji, 53, is charged Read more

Portugal’s president is preparing to dissolve parliament and order early elections. The country was plunged into a political crisis when MPs rejected the 2022 state Read more

The United Kingdom has become the first country to approve the use of the anti-COVID pill molnupiravir. The drug has been licensed for use treating Read more

Europe and Central Asia are once again at the “epicentre” of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a possible 500,000 additional deaths before February 1, the World Read more

Germany’s public health body reported a record-high number of COVID-19 cases on Thursday. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said 33,949 new cases had been registered Read more

Sweden’s government says it will set up a special commission to investigate the indigenous Sámi people. The “truth commission” will examine the Swedish colonisation of Read more

German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid a farewell visit to neighbouring France, where she was greeted by a singing and cheering public in Beaune. French President Read more

News aggregator Google News will return to Spain following a change in copyright law that allows online platforms to negotiate fees directly with content producers, Read more

British Brexit Minister David Frost is expected in Paris on Thursday to discuss the ongoing fishing dispute between the UK and France with Clément Beaune, Read more

South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday with “The Promise,” a novel about one white family’s reckoning with Read more

Poland’s foreign ministry said it has summoned a Belarusian diplomat over an “intrusion” at the country’s border. Poland says that “unidentified uniformed individuals armed with Read more

A Belarusian cargo plane has crashed while trying to land in eastern Russia, killing all seven people on board. Officials say the Soviet-built Antonov An-12 Read more

A Scottish trawler detained in France for a week for fishing in French waters without a licence has been released. The Cornelis Gert Jan fishing Read more

Belarus’ Interior Ministry has declared followers of the Polish-based television channel Belsat TV “extremist”. Citizens who subscribe to Belsat’s social media channels are liable for Read more

France has blasted an aid worker for returning to the country where she was taken as a hostage. Sophie Pétronin, 76, was captured by al-Qaida Read more

The Council of Europe has withdrawn images from a social media campaign promoting diversity among women and their freedom to wear the hijab. Posters featuring Read more