World / Europe

Stockholm: A Finnish passenger cruise ship ran aground off the island of Aland in the Baltic Sea, the cruise line said Sunday, with...

Moscow: A scientist involved in the secret Soviet programme to create the Novichok nerve agent has apologised to the Russian opposition politician Alexei...

PARIS: France should invest in a Bridgestone tyre plant threatened with closure, the head of its regional government who plans to run against...

LONDON: British Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday a second national lockdown was one possible step to curb the spread of the...

Marseille: One person was reported missing on Saturday and hundreds evacuated from their homes after torrential rains swept southern France, authorities said. The...

Moscow: Russia's leading opposition politician Alexei Navalny announced Saturday that he could now walk with a "tremble", and gave the first detailed account...

Lesbos Island, Greece: Most of the asylum seekers who were left homeless after fires ripped through their camp on Lesbos island have moved...

Paris: A sudden jump in France's daily death toll from COVID-19 stems from previously unreported cases in one hospital near Paris, according to...

London: Britain is likely to need to reintroduce some national coronavirus lockdown measures sooner rather than later, a former senior government health advisor...

COPENHAGEN: Denmark will lower the limit on public gatherings to 50 people from 100 and order restaurants to close early to curb a...

BRUSSELS: The EU Commission has finalized a deal with Sanofi and GSK allowing its 27 member states to buy up to 300 million...

MOSCOW: Russia has approved R-Pharm's Coronavir treatment for outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19 infections and the antiviral drug could be rolled out...

PARIS: France's response to a resurgence in the COVID-19 virus in the country needs to be proportionate, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday,...

Madrid - Chinese hackers have stolen information from Spanish laboratories working on a vaccine for Covid-19, El Pais newspaper reported Friday. The report...

Athens - A rare hurricane-like storm hit western Greece on Friday, disrupting travel and causing floods and power outages on several Ionian Sea...

PRAGUE - A surge in COVID-19 infections in the Czech Republic accelerated, with more than 3,000 cases reported in a single day for...

PARIS - France registered a record 10,593 new confirmed coronavirus in the past 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Thursday, the country's...

PARIS - France will provide funding for an initiative led by the World Health Organization to buy potential COVID-19 vaccines, but will not...