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Turkey has launched legal proceedings against 30 people for speculating about the health of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media. The suspects are all Read more

In a defiant move against China, seven members of the European Parliament have landed in Taipei for a three-day official mission to discuss disinformation and Read more

The Czech Republic is nearing a new government after liberal parties reached an agreement, three weeks after parliamentary elections. Petr Fiala, a prospective prime minister, Read more

Authorities on La Palma have warned residents to stay indoors as the Cumbre Vieja volcano continues to emit ash clouds. All flights to and from Read more

The autumn break in Germany caused a new, fourth wave of the pandemic, mainly among unvaccinated Germans, with more than 20,000 new cases and 194 Read more

The Australian government lied and intentionally deceived Paris over the scrapping of a defence deal, says France’s ambassador to Australia. In September, Australia cancelled a Read more

Two people were killed and another injured after a man fell seven storeys at a concert in Sweden that was paying homage to members of Read more

His home went first. Then the house his father built. Then the lottery stand and hardware store he owned succumbed. Lastly, Antonio Álvarez had to Read more

Three leading press freedom groups have launched a tribunal in The Hague to hold governments accountable for journalists’ deaths. Guy Berger, UNESCO’s Director for Freedom Read more

Faced with sharply rising coronavirus cases, the caretaker prime minister of the Netherlands said Tuesday that the Dutch government is reinstituting an order to wear Read more

Vienna has held a memorial event to commemorate victims on the first anniversary of a terrorist attack. Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg, speaking at the ceremony, Read more

French President Emmanuel Macron will present the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour to Angela Merkel on Wednesday during her last Read more

The tech and digital sectors are increasingly contributing towards climate change, according to the European Commission and experts. Olivier Vergeynst, director of the Belgian Institute Read more

A British supermarket has apologised after mistakenly adding “non-EU” food labels to some of its products. Social media users had questioned why Morrisons had labelled Read more

The chief international peace envoy in Bosnia is warning that the small Western Balkan nation could face the biggest “existential threat of the post-war period” Read more

Human rights activists have accused Greek police of racism following the death of a young Roma man. Officers used “disproportionate armed violence” when they fatally Read more

Former FIFA officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were charged with fraud and other offenses by Swiss prosecutors on Tuesday after a six-year investigation into Read more

Bulgaria and Romania on Tuesday reported new record daily COVID-19 death tolls. Over the previous 24 hours, 310 people died in Bulgaria and 591 in Read more

Two London police officers have admitted taking selfies at the crime scene of a double murder and sharing them on WhatsApp. The pair were responsible Read more

French police officers say they shot and injured a man who had threatened them with a knife at a Paris train station. The suspect was Read more

Romania’s latest prime minister-designate has abandoned plans to try and form a new government. Nicolae Ciucă gave up his mandate after it appeared he did Read more

A far-right presidential candidate in Bulgaria had his legal immunity waived after he was suspected of attacking an LGBT+ community centre in Sofia. Bulgaria’s prosecutor Read more

Coronavirus deaths in Russia hit another daily record on Tuesday, four days since a nationwide order for many Russians to stay off work took effect. Read more

Emmanuel Macron says France will not be starting retaliatory action against British trade on Tuesday, in order to allow talks in the post-Brexit fishing dispute Read more

For many in Italy’s LGBT+ community, the rejection of a bill meant to ban homophobia has been viewed as a step backwards on the already-fraught Read more

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he wouldn’t “cop sledging” from France as he defended his position over a broken submarine deal that launched a Read more

Bulgaria has sent 350 additional military personnel to its border with Turkey amid rising migration levels. Defense Minister Georgi Panayotov told Bulgarian media that the Read more

German police say they registered more than 5,000 unauthorised border crossings last month by people who had arrived from Belarus. The number marks a significant Read more

Germany is investigating reports that a former prosecutor’s office employee passed on information to conspiracists. A member of Berlin’s public prosecutor’s office is accused of Read more

The Russian region of Novgorod has ordered most residents to stay off work for another week as COVID-19 cases continue to rise. Citizens will be Read more