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Greece reports first HMPV case 08 Jan 2025 - 06:23 pm
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UK extends travel entry scheme to US, Canada, Australia 08 Jan 2025 - 01:21 pm
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Macron irks allies, left with Africa 'forgot to say thank you' jibe 07 Jan 2025 - 11:48 pm
France's President Emmanuel Macron looks on as he takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony to pay tribute to Ahmed Merabet, a Muslim police officer guarding the offices who was executed at point-blank range, as part of marking 10 years since an attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper, on January 7, 2025.  (Photo by Ludovic Marin  / AFP) 
Don't eat your Christmas tree, warns Belgium food agency 07 Jan 2025 - 10:04 pm
Teenage boy stabbed to death on London bus 07 Jan 2025 - 08:19 pm
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Knifeman held outside Belgian PM's office was known to police 07 Jan 2025 - 05:24 pm
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Croatia schools tighten security after fatal stabbing 07 Jan 2025 - 02:30 pm
People react next to a makeshift memorial at the playground of Precko primary school, following a stabbing attack at the school which left one dead and several injured, in Zagreb, on December 20, 2024. (Photo by DAMIR SENCAR / AFP)
Pace of German emissions cuts slows in 2024: study 07 Jan 2025 - 11:36 am
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UK's Starmer unveils plan to ease hospital backlogs 06 Jan 2025 - 04:42 pm
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer talks with nurses and staff during a visits to a healthcare provider in Surrey, south-west of London on January 6, 2025. Photo by Leon Neal / POOL / AFP
Mass push in Germany to ban fireworks after New Year's chaos 06 Jan 2025 - 03:52 pm
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Sixth victim dies after German Christmas market attack: prosecutors 06 Jan 2025 - 12:57 pm
Employees begin to dismantle the closed Christmas market shops at the site of a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 27, 2024. Photo by JENS SCHLUETER / AFP
UK electricity cleanest on record in 2024 06 Jan 2025 - 11:06 am
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Ljutic edges Holdener for World Cup slalom victory 05 Jan 2025 - 07:42 pm
Winner Croatia's Zrinka Ljutic celebrates during the podium ceremony after the Women's Slalom as part of the FIS Alpine ski world Cup 2024-2025 in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Jure Makovec / AFP)
Former Greek PM Costas Simitis passes away at 88 05 Jan 2025 - 07:27 pm
(FILES) Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Press Association in Athens, 03 December 2003. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS / AFP)
Dozens of marine mammals found dead after Russian oil tanker spill 05 Jan 2025 - 07:15 pm
In this grab taken from a handout footage released by the Russian Emergencies Ministry on December 17, 2024, rescuers respond to an oil spill along the coastline of the Black Sea, caused by the wreck of two oil tankers, with the one which broke apart, in a storm in the Kerch Strait between Crimea and southern Russia's Krasnodar region on December 15. (Photo by Handout / Russian Emergencies Ministry / AFP)
Italy's Meloni visits Trump in Florida 05 Jan 2025 - 05:33 pm
This handout picture released by the Palazzo Chigi press office on January 5, 2025 shows Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni posing with US President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-A-Lago Club on January 4, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Filippo ATTILI / Palazzo Chigi press office / AFP)
UK airports reopen runways after snow disruption 05 Jan 2025 - 04:58 pm
A photograph taken on January 5, 2025, shows Snows of pavement outside Anfield in Liverpool, north west England on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Darren Staples / AFP)
Snow, black ice cancels dozens of flights in Germany 05 Jan 2025 - 02:35 pm
A person walks on a snow-covered street after snowfall in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on December 29, 2024. Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP.

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