President Tayyip Erdogan said Monday Turkey's navy will not back down as Greece "sows chaos" in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where the countries have deployed frigates in an escalating rhetorical confrontation over overlapping resource claims. "The ones who throw Greece in front of...

 More than 150 people were arrested as Paris Saint-Germain fans set cars ablaze, smashed shop windows and clashed with police in the French capital after their team's Champions League final defeat to Bayern Munich, police said Monday. The violence occurred around the Parc des Princes...

The Russian foreign minister on Sunday said the Belarusian opposition is not happy over its "waning" support for protests, and wants bloodshed. Speaking at the Terra Scientia National Youth Educational Forum in Solnechnogorsk, Moscow Region, Sergey Lavrov said the law enforcers do not...

Sicily’s governor has ordered all migrant residences on the Italian island to be shut down by Monday, part of a push-back by Italian regions alarmed by a surge in COVID-19 cases a few weeks before schools are to reopen. But while some new migrants have tested positive, vacationers returning...

The new coronavirus is circulating four times more among people under 40 in France than among over 65-year-olds, France's health minister said, though he warned that contamination was on the rise among the elderly and more vulnerable too. "We're in a risky situation," Olivier Veran said in...

Italy's health ministry on Saturday reported 1,071 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, exceeding 1,000 cases in a day for the first time since May when the government eased rigid lockdown measures. 

The 7th round of the EU-UK negotiations on the partners’ future ended without progress, EU’s chief negotiator announced Friday. “I am frankly disappointed, concerned and surprised as well,” Michel Barnier told journalists summarizing the talks that had taken place in Brussels this week....

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is in a coma in a hospital in Siberia after suspected poisoning, his spokeswoman said on Thursday. Navalny, 44, a vociferous critic of President Vladimir Putin, fell ill on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow this morning, Kira Yarmysh...

Europe can combat the new coronavirus without full lockdowns now that authorities are better prepared and have gained knowledge about how to fight it in recent months, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday. "With the basic nationwide and additional targeted measures, we are in a...

The anti-corruption protests that have been roiling in the streets of the Bulgarian capital Sofia for the past six weeks have united people from across the country and all walks of life. The faces of the protesters are as diverse as the country itself and they all share one aim: forcing the...

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak has tested positive for COVID-19, the nation’s prime minister announced on Tuesday. Speaking at a meeting in the city of Blagoveshchensk in the Russian Far East, Mikhail Mishustin said Novak came with him to join the meeting but left for Moscow after...

After months of criticism over its response to coronavirus, the British government is facing a new battle -- from students in revolt over the grading of cancelled exams. Pupils have taken to the streets and threatened legal action over the decision to downgrade around 280,000 A-level...

Belarusians chanting "Step down!" filled the center of the capital Minsk Sunday in the biggest protest so far against longtime president Alexander Lukashenko's re-election a week ago after Russia said it would offer him military help if necessary. There was no visible police presence at the...

More than 21,000 people reached Italy between August 2019 and the end of July, up 148% year-on-year, the minister said, speaking at an annual Aug. 15 press conference. Lamorgese said the majority of the arrivals were “autonomous landings, hard to manage... with small boats and...

European Union ministers agreed Friday to draw up a list of targets in Belarus for a new round of sanctions in response to strongman Alexander Lukashenko's post-election crackdown.  At a videoconference hosted by Brussels' diplomatic chief Josep Borrell, the foreign ministers also...

The French government has declared Paris and the Bouches-du-Rhone area around Marseille on the Mediterranean coast as "red" zones with a high coronavirus infection risk, according to a government decree published Friday. The decree gives local authorities the power to limit the circulation...

Protests against the results of Belarus’ presidential election continued for a fourth day Thursday, the Interior Ministry said.  The unrest is dying down, with fewer people taking to the streets. However, aggression against law enforcement personnel remains high, ministry spokeswoman...

Britain's assessment is that a Brexit agreement can be reached with the European Union in September, the UK chief negotiator David Frost said Thursday ahead of a round of negotiations with his EU counterpart Michel Barnier next week. "As we keep saying, we are not looking for a special or...

Just seven weeks after bringing its first coronavirus wave under control, experts say Spain is once again in a "critical" situation with the worst infection rate in Western Europe. The country reported an average of 4,923 new daily cases of the respiratory disease during the last seven...

Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko has won a sixth term in office with a landslide of over 80% of the vote, the country's election commission announced Monday. Voter turnout in Sunday’s polls was over 84%, and the results of the election are considered "valid," Lidia Ermoshina, head of...