A Spanish ship with three Libyan migrants onboard was finally allowed Wednesday to dock in Sicily after a diplomatic spat between Italy and Malta left it in limbo. The Golfo Azzurro, chartered by Spain's Proactiva Open Arms NGO, had rescued the migrants on Sunday in an operation normally...

German prosecutors say they've arrested a 29-year-old Syrian man on allegations he committed war crimes as a member of Daesh (ISIS) in his home country. The federal prosecutor's office said Wednesday that Fares A. B., whose last name wasn't released in line with privacy laws, is also accused...

French police launched a manhunt on Wednesday after a car rammed into soldiers near their barracks outside Paris, injuring six people, two of them seriously. Police were scrambling to track down the vehicle, which took off after the incident described by local mayor Patrick Balkany as...

An ORB opinion poll published on Monday showed that 61 percent of British voters disapprove of Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of the Brexit negotiations. Britain has less than two years to negotiate the terms of the divorce and the outlines of the future relationship before it is due...

A man arrested at the Eiffel Tower after brandishing a knife in front of tourists and security forces has told investigators he wanted to kill a soldier, sources close to the case told AFP on Sunday. The intruder, who is aged around 19 and has a history of psychological problems, was...

The publisher of Germany's Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag newspapers has filed a formal complaint at the European Court of Justice about Turkey's detention of German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel since February, the newspaper reported Saturday. Turkish authorities arrested Yucel in February...

Italian authorities on Wednesday impounded a German NGO's migrant rescue boat on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration, police said. The Iuventa, operated by the Jugend Rettet organisation, was impounded on the Italian island of Lampedusa on the orders of a prosecutor based in...

Germany Wednesday accused Hanoi of kidnapping an asylum seeker on German soil, as Berlin furiously summoned Vietnam's ambassador and expelled one of the south-east Asian nation's spies. "The kidnapping of Vietnamese national Trinh Xuan Thanh on German soil is an unprecedented and scandalous...

New sanctions against Russia proposed by U.S. lawmakers and which could harm European firms violate international law and the European Commission should consider counter-measures, the German economy minister was quoted on Monday as saying. "We consider this as being against international...

A 34-year-old man opened fire in a nightclub in the southern German city of Konstanz on Sunday, killing one person and seriously injuring three others, police said. The suspect suffered life-threatening injuries in a gunfight with police officers outside the music venue after they had rushed...

More than 22,000 people were evacuated Saturday when the stage at an electronic music festival near Barcelona erupted in flames, sending revellers running. Firefighters rushed to the Tomorrowland festival in Santa Coloma de Gramenet in northeastern Spain, and eventually managed to extinguish...

Air France Saturday announced it was suspending flights to crisis-hit Venezuela ahead of a controversial weekend election called by President Nicolas Maduro that has provoked deadly violence and international criticism. The carrier said it was monitoring the situation and that flights would...

Germany warned Friday that it would not accept any new U.S. sanctions against Russia that targeted European companies at the same time. Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel underlined the importance of applying economic pressure on Russia over its involvement in the Ukrainian conflict. But he...

A commuter train crashed into a railway buffer in Barcelona's Francia station, injuring 48 people, five of those seriously, emergency services said on Friday. There were no deaths reported. At least 18 of the injured need hospital attention, emergency services said. The driver was among the...

France will set up processing centres this summer in Libya for asylum seekers trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean, President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday. "The idea is to create hotspots to avoid people taking crazy risks when they are not all eligible for asylum. We'll go...

Freedom of movement of workers between Britain and the European Union will end when Britain withdraws from the bloc, immigration minister Brandon Lewis said Thursday. "Free movement of labour ends when we leave the European Union in spring 2019," Lewis told BBC radio. Lewis also said a...

French President Emmanuel Macron delivered an impassioned speech Wednesday after a Mass marking one year since the killing of a local French priest by two 19-year-old Islamic extremists who pledged loyalty to Daesh (ISIS). Calling him a "martyr," Macron addressed crowds outside the small...

Germany and Sweden made a joint protest to Turkey on Wednesday about the jailing of two human rights activists, demanding that the men be told what exactly they are accused of, the foreign ministry in Berlin said. Peter Steudtner of Germany and Ali Gharavi of Sweden were arrested July 5...

At least 10,000 people were evacuated overnight after a new wild fire broke out in southern France, which was already battling massive blazes that have consumed swathes of forest, authorities said Wednesday. The new fire came a day after France asked for Europe's help to tackle the flames...

France asked for Europe's help Tuesday in fighting wild fires that have consumed swathes of forest in the southeast, one of which is raging near the popular resort of Saint-Tropez. Over 4,000 firefighters and troops backed by 19 water bombers have been mobilised to extinguish the flames. At...