World / Europe

HELSINKI: Finland on Thursday registered a record number of new coronavirus infections in the space of a day, driven by the highly contagious...

Moscow: A helicopter carrying 16 people, most of them tourists, crashed in a lake on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East on...

LONDON - No new cases of a rare and severe blood clots following vaccination with AstraZeneca's COVID shot have been reported in Britain...

GENEVA - A top vaccines official at the World Health Organization says the agency expects to make a decision next month on an...

BRUSSELS: Baby food, vegetables, fruit, cereals, meat, fish and other foodstuffs will have to meet stricter limits of cadmium and lead content before...

ROME: Fires ravaged southern Italy on Wednesday, burning thousands of acres of land and killing a man in his home, as temperatures hit...

ZURICH: The Swiss government plans to halt most free COVID-19 testing for people who are not vaccinated now that nearly half the population...

STOCKHOLM: Book sales in Sweden hit an all-time high in the first half of 2021 as people travelled less and entertained themselves at...

MADRID: Spain's medicines agency has authorized the first round of clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Spanish company Hipra, Prime Minister...

EVIA, Greece: A big blaze that swelled overnight forced the evacuation of many villages on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula on Wednesday, as exhausted firefighters...

ROME: Italy's government has urged regions to prioritise COVID-19 vaccinations for those aged between 12 and 18, in an effort to extend the...

Europe's drugs regulator said on Wednesday it was looking into three new conditions to assess whether there may be possible side-effects related to...

Amsterdam: The Netherlands and Germany on Wednesday abruptly reversed course and said they would not for the time being deport Afghan citizens who...

KYIV: Ukraine has extended a state of emergency that allows regional authorities to impose COVID-19 restrictions for a further month until Oct. 1...

Berlin: A strike by train drivers paralysed passenger and freight traffic across Germany on Wednesday as the union demanded a better wage offer...

Berlin: Germany police arrested a British man on Tuesday who worked at the British embassy in Berlin on suspicion of passing documents to...

LONDON - Booster shots for COVID-19 vaccines are not currently needed and the doses should be given to other countries, Oxford vaccine chief...

BERLIN - Authorities in northern Germany appealed to thousands of people on Tuesday to get another shot of COVID-19 vaccine after a police...