Britain and the EU were seen to be closing in on a detailed draft Brexit deal on Tuesday, although officials voiced scepticism it would be ready in time for a key European summit this week. The pound jumped to its highest level in five months on cautious optimism voiced by both sides that...

A new row over secularism and the wearing of the Islamic hijab in public buildings has erupted in France after a far-right politician asked a woman accompanying her son and other children on a school trip to remove her headscarf. The issue has divided politicians and citizens in a country...

A video of a politician from the National Rally (formerly the National Front) demanding at a French regional council meeting that a woman take off her veil was met with outrage as it went viral over the weekend – even drawing criticism from other figures in the far-right party. Julien...

Spanish police charged against Catalan pro-independence protesters at the entrance to the Barcelona international airport Monday after Spain's Supreme court jailed nine separatist leaders, El Mundo newspaper said. Video footage showed police using batons on some of the demonstrators, some...

French police on Monday detained five people linked to a radicalised employee at the Paris police headquarters who killed four colleagues in a knife attack earlier this month, sources said. Police staged raids at three locations in the northern suburbs of Paris, judicial sources and those...

Thousands of people opposed to Catalan independence marched in the region's capital Saturday, Spain's national day, with the verdict in the trial of leading Catalan separatists expected early next week. Waving Spanish -- and some Catalan -- flags and carrying anti-independence banners,...

With well-kept houses boasting renovated facades, solar-panelled roofs and neat gardens, Benndorf appears to be a peaceful and friendly German village of just over 2,000 residents. But behind the pleasant veneer is a community still struggling with problems typical in much of...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday called on NATO to increase naval patrols in the Aegean after a threat by Turkey to allow more migrants to cross into Greece. "I asked the secretary general and the alliance, and member states to strengthen their presence... in the Aegean...

At least two people were killed in an armed attack outside a synagogue in eastern Germany, local media reported on Wednesday. The assailants shot at people outside a synagogue in Halle city and threw a hand grenade at a nearby Jewish cemetery, Bild daily reported. Police have confirmed...

Madrid hopes the upcoming ruling in the case of 12 Catalan separatist leaders will enable it to open fresh dialogue with the wealthy northeastern region, a junior minister said Tuesday. Speaking just days before the Supreme Court is due to rule on the fate of those responsible for the...

 A Brexit deal is essentially impossible as German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson that to do one Northern Ireland must stay in the European Union's customs union, a Downing Street source said Tuesday. With just 23 days to go before the United...

 French President Emmanuel Macron vowed an "unrelenting fight" against Islamist extremists on Tuesday as he paid tribute to the four Paris police staff stabbed to death last week by a radicalized colleague. "We will wage an unrelenting fight in the face of Islamist terrorism," Macron...

London police have made more than 300 arrests as climate-change protesters, labelled "uncooperative crusties" by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, continued two weeks of civil disobedience to push for more to be done to protect the environment. On Monday, the Extinction Rebellion group took...

London's Metropolitan Police said Monday it had so far arrested 276 people taking part in demonstrations organized by the climate change protest group Extinction Rebellion. Thousands of climate-change protesters took to the streets in cities aroun d the world Monday, launching two weeks of...

France's interior minister said Monday that the terrorist risk remained "high" to "very high" in France following the killing of four police personnel by a radicalized colleague. Minister Christophe Castaner, who also reiterated he had no plans to resign, added to France Inter radio that...

French and German attempts to end the conflict in east Ukraine risk increasing tensions that were already rising in the European Union over how to handle Russia and which could complicate peace efforts. Progress at talks between Russian and Ukrainian envoys have raised hopes of convening...

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar is seeking a meeting with his British counterpart Boris Johnson next week, stressing on Saturday that time was tight for London to go further with the fresh Brexit proposals it presented this week. With less than a month until its scheduled exit, Johnson is...

A staffer at Paris police headquarters who stabbed four colleagues to death in a frenzied attack adhered to "a radical vision of Islam", an anti-terror prosecutor said Saturday. The 45-year-old computer expert had been in contact with members of Salafism, an ultra-conservative branch of...

Thousands marched in Edinburgh Saturday calling for Scottish independence, with a possible British exit from the European Union just weeks away and calls growing for a fresh vote in Scotland on breaking from Britain. The demonstrators, many carrying Scottish flags, some wearings kilts and a...

Former French President Jacques Chirac's family bade him a final farewell Saturday at an intimate ceremony in the southwestern village where he grew up. "I can only say thank you in the name of my father and mother," the statesman's daughter Claude Chirac said in a tearful address at...