The European Union on Thursday extended by six months the application of "restrictive measures targeting actions against Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence". The sanctions, consisting of an asset freeze and a travel ban against 146 persons and 37 entities, have...

An international group of female activists has set sail from Barcelona to the Gaza Strip as part of the latest attempt to end the Israeli blockade. Around 20 women from a range of countries were given a warm farewell by cheering crowds including Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau on Wednesday...

Britain gave the go-ahead on Thursday for a $24 billion nuclear power plant, ending weeks of uncertainty that strained ties with China and France but also signaling a more cautious approach to foreign investment in critical infrastructure projects. The government of new Prime Minister...

Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Germany needed "viable solutions" to integrate refugees into the workforce faster after she met with blue-chip companies, which have hired just over 100 refugees since around a million arrived in the country last year. Merkel, fighting for her...

German police have arrested three Syrian men Tuesday for suspected links to Daesh and Paris attackers, the interior minister has said. Speaking at a news conference in Berlin, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said three suspects arrested Tuesday in northern Germany were believed to have...

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced Saturday that France had apprehended 293 people suspected of having links to terrorist organizations since the beginning of the year. Speaking during a national security conference, Cazeneuve said the state was doing its best to rid the...

Although Spain has been without a functioning government for more than eight months, that hasn’t stopped the acting government from making controversial decisions. Mere minutes after acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s failed investiture vote last Friday came the contentious announcement:...

Germany has begun destroying toxic materials from Libya’s chemical weapons program, the country’s defense ministry revealed on Friday. Nearly 500 tons of toxic materials dating back to the Gaddafi era were transferred to a special center in northern Germany this week, the ministry said in a...

A train derailment in northwestern Spain on Friday killed three people and injured many more, Spanish media reported. The accident took place Friday morning in O Porrino, a town in the Galicia region. The train had departed from Vigo, Galicia and was bound for Oporto, Portugal. One of...

The European Union on Thursday announced it was contracting 348 million euros ($393 mln) to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) for humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey, part of the bloc's migration cooperation with Ankara. The money comes as part of a 3 billion euro support for...

PARIS French anti-terrorism police have launched an investigation after a car full of six gas cylinders was found in Paris, near Notre Dame Cathedral, over the weekend, French daily Le Figaro reported Wednesday. The car – with registration plates missing and its hazard lights flashing –...

  (Reuters) - A German man charged with supporting an Islamist militant group in Syria stayed silent on the first day of his trial in Duesseldorf on Tuesday, though his lawyer told the court that the prosecution was "flying blind" and its witnesses were unfit. Prosecutors said Sven...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the "saint of the gutters" during her life, was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis on Sunday, fast-tracked to canonization just 19 years after her death. Tens of thousands of pilgrims packed St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for...

Emmanuel Macron, who resigned from the French government on Tuesday, criticized President Francois Hollande's government in a newspaper interview for not pushing hard enough for reforms. "I kept trying, proposing, pushing ... If you want to succeed you cannot leave work half done, and...

One of the knifemen who attacked a church in northern France on Tuesday has been identified as 19-year-old Adel Kermiche, who was under close surveillance after two failed attempts to reach Syria last year, France's anti-terror prosecutor said. After the last attempt in May, 2015, Kermiche,...

French police "neutralized" two men armed with blades who had taken several people hostage in a church in northern France Tuesday, the police said. A police source said that one of the hostages had been killed with a blade in the attack which took place in the Normandy town of...

An 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman who apparently acted alone opened fire near a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening, killing at least nine people in the third attack on civilians in Western Europe in eight days. The pistol-wielding attacker, identified by Munich Police Chief...

Gunmen attacked a busy shopping mall in the German city of Munich on Friday evening, spraying bullets as people fled in horror for safety from what police said was a terrorist attack. Police said six people had been killed and the attackers were still at large. They told the public to get off...

Germany's Muencher Abendzeitung reported that up to 15 people were killed in a shooting in a shopping mall in the southern city of Munich. TV images showed dozens of emergency vehicles outside the mall. The shopping center is next to the Munich Olympic stadium, where the Palestinian militant...

A "terrorist" gunman killed 84 people and wounded scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd that had watched Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 80 people died and 18 were in a...