Moscow city authorities threatened prison terms of up to five years on Sunday for people failing to self-isolate in their homes for two weeks after visiting countries hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak. The city government had announced a “high alert regime” and imposed extra measures...

Italy imposed a virtual lockdown across a swathe of its wealthy north on Sunday, including the financial capital Milan, in a drastic new attempt to try to contain a rapidly growing outbreak of coronavirus. The unprecedented restrictions, which will impact some 16 million people and stay in...

Three years after President Emmanuel Macron swept to power promising a "revolution", have French voters definitively soured on him? The first round of municipal elections next weekend is expected to test backing for Macron's ambitious reform agenda following a second winter of discontent...

The EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier on Thursday warned that major differences remain between Britain and Europe after a first round of trade talks ended in Brussels. Barnier was speaking to reporters after four days of talks that launched months of intense closed-door...