Spain’s foreign minister accuses EU governments of amplifying Ceuta disinformation
Albares asked partners for political and financial solidarity at the European Union's only land border with Africa
Trump shrugs off Iran deal and claims ‘almost total control’ of Hormuz
The US President spoke as Brent crude climbed towards $97 a barrel and eurozone inflation hit a near three-year high.
Iran fires missiles at US bases in four countries after deadly strike on wedding party
The Revolutionary Guard said the barrage was retaliation for a US strike on a house in southern Iran where at least four people died, as hostilities resume after a month-long…
Birmingham council seeks High Court ban on British flags hung from lampposts
Breach of the proposed injunction would be contempt of court, carrying up to two years in prison or an unlimited fine.
Nepal flood toll passes 1,000 as EU citizens remain among the missing
The European Union has released €2 million and activated its Copernicus satellite service as rescue teams search hydropower tunnels buried along Nepal's Trishuli river.
Portugal’s president enacts faster expulsion of illegal immigrants after Chega abstention
The Constitutional Court cleared the text days earlier after the president queried detention limits and safeguards for children.
Europe refuses G20 photo with Russia after US invites Moscow back
Anton Siluanov's first in-person G20 appearance since 2022 has drawn a coordinated European snub, with Berlin calling the US decision 'quite troubling'.
Lithuania’s president says CIA chief’s Moscow visit was aimed at easing tensions
Gitanas Nausėda has played down the significance of John Ratcliffe's unannounced trip, saying it changed nothing in the Baltic state's security picture.
Putin meets Xi and Modi in Kyrgyzstan, first country hit by EU anti-circumvention sanctions
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has marked 25 years in a capital Brussels accuses of funnelling restricted European technology on to Russia.
Norway’s new queen corresponded with Epstein for three years
Mette-Marit's exchanges with the late American sex offender are now the subject of a parliamentary commission and have already led to criminal charges against a former Council…
US ambassador refuses to apologise after Belgian reprimand over ‘loser’ post
Bill White said he intended to carry on posting his views online after a meeting at the foreign ministry, the second time this year he has been called in.
Italy extends Schengen suspension on Spain as Madrid answers in kind
Rome says the conditions that triggered its border checks on August 1 still stand, a month after tens of thousands crossed into Ceuta.
Iran strikes US air bases in Jordan and the Emirates after American raid near Hormuz
Jordan said its air defences destroyed eight incoming missiles, while oil climbed back above $90 (€78) a barrel.
Norway announces King Harald’s state funeral
The Royal Court has set September 9 for the funeral of Europe's oldest reigning monarch, who died on August 28 aged 89, with burial in the royal mausoleum at Akershus Fortress…
Ben-Gvir posts prison video boasting of harsher conditions for Palestinian women
The Israeli national security minister released the footage two months before an election, as a proposal to place him on the EU sanctions list remains stalled in the Council.
Le Pen and Farage hail Iceland’s ‘No’ to EU membership talks
Reform UK, National Rally and the European Conservatives and Reformists say the rejection of accession talks shows a Europe of sovereign nations is possible.
London council moves Islamic school with ‘compulsory’ hijab rule into State sector
Barnet Hill Academy is due to become a taxpayer-funded voluntary aided school on September 1, with secularists objecting that girls from the age of seven must cover their…
Foreign suspects in German sex offence cases more than double since 2000
A German Government reply to a nationalist MP records a 148.2 per cent rise over 25 years, with suspects in threat offences up 231.5 per cent
Muslim voters hand Sweden’s left-wing parties a landslide as Government support collapses
Previously unpublished Novus figures put combined backing for the Social Democrats, the Left Party and the Greens at 85 per cent among Muslim respondents, against 3.
UEFA asks US courts for FIFA documents in criminal case against Infantino
European football's governing body wants evidence from Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital and two Florida-based FIFA companies for a complaint it is preparing in Switzerland.
Tisza deputy leader appears in emails with state holiday contract winner before tender opens
Ákos Hadházy has published correspondence he says shows the winning firm gathering budget and supplier data weeks before the procurement began.
Iran’s security chief threatens ‘calamity’ for US interests
Mohsen Rezaei told Qatar's Prime Minister that Tehran would strike American military and economic targets, while setting conditions for reopening the strait.
Iceland’s Prime Minister invokes Trump threat as EU vote narrows to a knife edge
Icelanders decide on August 29 whether to reopen accession talks frozen since 2013, with the latest poll putting the Yes camp less than three points ahead.
Israeli troops shell Damascus countryside days after US-brokered talks with Syria
Two projectiles landed on farmland roughly 50 kilometres from the Syrian capital as a six-vehicle convoy pushed through Quneitra, state media reported.
Trump rules out Russian attack on NATO after ‘good talks’ with Putin
The US President has dismissed reported intelligence warnings of a Russian move against the alliance, as Baltic governments say their own threat assessments are unchanged.
Business park rises on Austrian Nazi women’s camp site sold by mayor’s firm
Bulldozers have moved on to the Hirtenberg subcamp grounds south of Vienna after the Federal Monuments Office ruled that the surviving barrack foundations did not merit protection.
Von der Leyen heads to Greenland to sign joint EU declaration
The European Commission President is due to meet the Greenlandic, Danish and Faroese prime ministers on a trip postponed since March.
Kremlin denies NATO attack plans after CIA chief’s Moscow visit
Dmitry Peskov has dismissed Western reporting on Russian designs against alliance territory as scare stories with no basis in Moscow's intentions.
Norway’s King Harald in ‘very serious’ condition as royal family gathers at his bedside
Crown Prince Haakon, regent since the 89-year-old monarch was admitted to hospital on August 17, has cancelled all engagements alongside Queen Sonja.
Muslims make up nearly one in five prisoners in England and Wales, almost three times their population share
Shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy has published the figures alongside a demand for an inquiry into alleged forced conversions behind bars.