Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats have suffered huge losses on Sunday in regional elections in the central German state of Hesse. Projections by public broadcaster ARD showed Christian Democratic Union (CDU) could only manage to win 28 percent of the vote, a significant...

German authorities have arrested seven Syrian men and a German on suspicion of raping an 18-year-old woman in the southwestern city of Freiburg. Freiburg prosecutors said Friday that authorities haven't ruled out the possibility of more suspects being involved in the Oct. 14 assault....

Greece recorded the highest general government-debt-to-GDP ratio in the euro area for the second quarter, the EU’s statistics office announced Tuesday. According to Eurostat, Greek government's gross debt stock totaled €323.4 billion ($385 billion) at the end of second quarter of 2018...

The European Commission Monday urged the United States and Russia to pursue talks to preserve a nuclear weapons treaty after President Donald Trump said Washington was withdrawing from the deal. The Commission, the 28-nation European Union executive, stressed the Intermediate-Range...

Prime Minister Theresa May will tell Britain's parliament on Monday that Brexit talk are "95 percent" complete but that she cannot accept the EU's Northern Ireland border proposals – as she faces an increasingly mutinous faction within her party. May has been on the receiving end of a...

The vast majority of British firms are poised to implement their Brexit contingency plans by Christmas if there isn’t greater clarity over the country’s exit from the European Union, a leading business lobby group warned Sunday. The Confederation of British Industry said these could...

Tens of thousands of people opposed to Britain's looming breakup with the EU rallied in the heart of London on Saturday, according to organisers, in the latest bid to try and stop Brexit. The march on parliament began as a noisy and festive affair, uniting a giant crowd in the seemingly...

Britain and Spain have agreed that any disagreements over Gibraltar will not delay Brexit talks with the European Union, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Thursday. The Spanish leader did not say what the deal involved but told reporters at an EU summit in Brussels: "It is...

Theresa May knew even before she got to Brussels that she wouldn't be invited to dinner with her European opposite numbers, who wanted to discuss her Brexit plan without her. But the British premier can't have known, as she returned to the British residence, that she'd also miss out...

British Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed Thursday she was considering extending the transition period after Brexit for a few months to give time to agree a new trade deal with the European Union. "A further idea that has emerged, and it is an idea at this stage, is to create an...

For people living in and around the Drummully Polyp, a squiggle on the map of the Irish frontier, life without an open border is unimaginable and a reminder of the bad old days of checkpoints. Threaded through emerald farmlands with serpentine disorder, this section of the border all...

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday said the disagreements between the U.K. and the European Union should not let their disagreements leave the two sides with a no-deal Brexit. "I continue to believe that a negotiated deal is the best outcome for the U.K. and the European...

A man who hurled a burning molotov cocktail then took a woman hostage at a major German railway station Monday may have acted with a "terrorist" motive, police said. Police said they found a passport issued to a 55-year-old Syrian man at the scene, and that the suspect had claimed to be...

At least three people were killed in heavy rains and floods that hit Aude region in southern France, the local governor said. According to a statement, one person was killed in the city of Villardonnel while two others lost their lives in the town of Villegailhenc. Water level...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday he would advise Labour Party lawmakers to vote down a Brexit divorce deal that Theresa May is trying to clinch with the European Union. Less than six months before the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, there is little...

European Union nations, voicing concern over a U.N. report on global warming, agreed on Tuesday to seek a 35 percent cut in car emissions by 2030, as Germany warned that overly challenging targets risked harming industry and jobs. Torn between reducing pollution and preserving industry...

Senior German conservatives facing painful losses in two state elections this month have ruled out forming coalitions with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. "I am very clear about this: not with the AfD," parliament speaker and former finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble...

Thousands of anti-coal demonstrators descended on Germany's Hambach forest Saturday, celebrating an unexpected court victory that suspended an energy company's planned razing of the woodland for a growing open-cast mine. The ancient forest near Cologne has been occupied by activists for...

French career criminal Redoine Faïd, who made a Hollywood-esque helicopter jailbreak in July, was arrested in the Oise region north of Paris early Wednesday, according to French officials. A seasoned armed robber, nicknamed the "jailbreak king", Faïd was apprehended in the northern...

British Prime Minister Theresa May gathers her party for its annual conference this weekend, facing opposition on all sides as she heads into the final stretch of Brexit negotiations. The Conservative leader arrived in Birmingham, central England, just days after the EU rejected her...