Denmark has charged a Danish company over its alleged violation of the European Union's sanctions on the Syrian regime and its ally Russia, after it was found to have conducted numerous deals with them over the past few years. The Danish financial crimes unit charged the company, which...

A doctor in an open-air tent in Rome crouches and scrapes high into his patient's nostrils with a fine straw-like implement. He dabs a strip of paper and produces a result: "Negativo." Italy was the first country in Europe to bet big on these rapid "antigen" coronavirus tests -- a negative...

France has increased measures to deport migrants residing illegally on its territory and counter the terrorist threat through diplomatic efforts, strengthening border security, and through arrest campaigns. This comes following three terror attacks that took place in September and October....

Russia on Wednesday reported its highest daily death toll from COVID-19 with 432 more fatalities recorded in the last 24 hours. According to the country's emergency task force, the total number of cases in the country has passed 1.83 million, with 19,851 additions over the past day. The...

Fifty years ago Charles de Gaulle, France's greatest leader since Napoleon, died suddenly in his armchair at the humble home where he had retired to live the quiet life he had always craved. French President Emmanuel Macron made the well-worn pilgrimage to the northeastern village of...

Turkey’s foreign minister on Friday said France censoring a cartoon of its Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer is an example of "hypocrisy" and "double standard". “It is a good example of hypocrisy and double standard,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told a news conference following the informal...

The Kremlin’s spokesman denied a report in the British tabloid The Sun that said Russian President Vladimir Putin will resign early next year due to health problems. In response to a question about the article, Dmitry Peskov said that Putin had no plans to resign. “No,” Peskov said. “He...

Government failures to prepare for Brexit mean the UK faces "significant disruption" when it is fully free of the European Union on January 1, an official watchdog said Friday. The coronavirus pandemic will add to the strain on freight, farming and other economic sectors, especially in...

Europe must rethink its open-border Schengen area, including a more robust protection of the zone’s external frontiers, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, after a spate of Islamist attacks in France and Austria. The tighter controls were needed to curb clandestine immigration, said...

The United States and the European Union need to develop a "new transatlantic relationship" after the US election, irrespective of who wins, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday. Le Drian warned that there "will be no going back to the previous situation, to the good old...

Italian officials agreed on Wednesday to impose a night-time curfew, joining a slew of European nations in ramping up restrictions in the face of a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases. But the measure, which restricts Italians to their homes between 10:00 pm and 5:00 am, fell short of the...

Russia on Wednesday reported a new single-day record of 19,768 coronavirus cases and 389 deaths. According to the country's emergency task force, the total number of cases in the country has reached 1.69 million, while the death toll rose to 29,217. Meanwhile, recoveries rose by 15,567...

Daesh (IS) claimed responsibility Tuesday for an attack in Vienna that killed at least four people, without providing evidence, in a statement from the group's Amaq News Agency posted on Telegram. The statement was accompanied by a picture of a bearded man, named "Abu Dagnah Al-Albany",...

Another four people have been placed in custody over last week’s fatal knife attack in the French city of Nice, BFM TV and Agence France Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday. An assailant shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in Nice...

European police launched coordinated raids in seven countries on Tuesday as part of a clampdown on online hatred and incitement to violence, the European Union law enforcement agency Europol and German prosecutors said. In Germany, police searched 83 apartments and other buildings to seize...

The assailant killed by police in an attack in central Vienna on Monday sympathised with the Islamic State (IS) group, Austria’s Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said Tuesday. At least three civilians were killed in the attack. “We experienced an attack yesterday evening from at least one...

Gunmen opened fire on people enjoying a last night out at Vienna's cafes and restaurants before a coronavirus lockdown Monday in what authorities said was a terrorist attack that left at least two dead — including one of the assailants — and 15 wounded. “We are victims of a despicable...

 Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte resisted pressure to impose a new economically-damaging national lockdown Monday despite spiking virus cases, instead proposing a regional approach that would target the hardest-hit areas. Reports had suggested Conte would push for a nationwide...

Russia's attempt to overturn its four-year ban from international sport got under way in Lausanne Monday, the latest chapter of a long-running and controversial saga over state-sanctioned doping. Global anti-doping body WADA in December last year declared the Russian Anti-Doping Agency...

Nigel Farage, the British politician who helped force a Brexit referendum and successfully campaigned to leave the European Union, will fight Prime Minister Boris Johnson's COVID-19 lockdown by recasting his small Brexit Party as Reform UK. Cast by his supporters as the godfather of Brexit,...