Bessent targets French, Swiss and British firms in sweeping Iran sanctions
Nearly 60 entities, individuals and vessels have been designated as Washington opens what it calls Operation Economic Outcast.
Rescuers find two missing alive after tornado injures 39 in southern France
The tornado tore through Pomas in the Aude, damaging 300 homes and forcing more than half the village to evacuate.
Pashinyan says Armenia could lodge EU membership bid in the near future
The Armenian Prime Minister told parliament a referendum on accession would follow only once a formal application had been submitted.
Xi urges diplomacy on Middle East as China and Jordan back Hormuz reopening
Beijing has cast itself as a broker in a conflict that has kept Europe's main energy artery shut since February.
Hungarian Gripen fighter jet crashes near Szolnok as pilot ejects safely
Defence minister Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi said the pilot escaped injury after doing everything possible to bring the aircraft down on military land.
Brussels approves €6.1 billion for Ukrainian air defence on Independence Day
The EU executive signed off the envelope as leaders gathered in Kyiv to discuss Ukraine's shortage of interceptor missiles.
German justice minister pushes for sexual identity clause in Basic Law
Stefanie Hubig has revived a proposal her coalition partner has blocked for years, arguing the constitution should say explicitly what its defenders insist it already means.
Coalition of the Willing meets in Kyiv as Ukraine asks for 300 interceptors
Air defence, €30 billion in blocked EU funding and Russia's shadow fleet are on the agenda at the third such gathering in the Ukrainian capital.
Russia withdraws ambassador from London and names no replacement
Moscow has left its British embassy in the hands of a chargé d'affaires as the row over UK drone supplies to Ukraine deepens.
Iceland’s EU accession referendum splits voters 46-46 as Brussels hopes for enlargement boost
Icelanders decide on August 29 whether to restart accession talks frozen in 2013, in a ballot the European Commission hopes will revive its stalled enlargement drive.
Driver ploughs into shoppers in Hofgeismar pedestrian zone
The 68-year-old was in a critical condition after his car struck passers-by and a department store window in the centre of the German city.
ICC president warns of ‘demise of international rule of law’ after US sanctions
Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa have backed Tomoko Akane, though the European Commission has still not moved to shield the court.
EU deplores ‘deterioration’ of Hong Kong freedoms after vigil convictions
Judges found the organisers of Hong Kong's annual Tiananmen vigil guilty of inciting subversion and both face up to 10 years in prison.
Vučić points to October for Serbian snap election
The Serbian President has said the ballot will pit his ruling party against a single bloc of everyone else, though he has still not set a date for his own resignation.
German trauma surgeons record sharp rise in life-threatening stab injuries
A 12-year analysis of Germany's national trauma registry has found the number of patients admitted with severe stab wounds up by almost 60 per cent, with the increase concentrated…
North Korea fires missile salvo as Trump scales back South Korea drills
Pyongyang launched about 10 short-range weapons hours after the US President said he expected to meet Kim Jong Un this year.
Denmark sends its first conscripts to Greenland
The recruits are the first national service intake to take on operational duties in the Arctic territory.
Belgium searches for owner of gold hoard found by teenage worker
Authorities in East Flanders are investigating the origin of an estimated €9 million in gold bars and coins uncovered in a bricked-up cellar wall during renovation work…
Former US ambassador calls NATO rebrand ‘lipstick on a pig’
Ivo Daalder said Washington no longer treated the security of Europe as bound up with its own.
Spanish NATO jets scramble as drone crashes in eastern Romania
A drone entered Romanian airspace near Galați before coming down in an unpopulated area of Tulcea county, the defence ministry said.
Migrant camps displace Ceuta’s cat colonies as carers search for missing animals
Volunteers say feeding sites beside the desalination plant and in several outlying neighbourhoods have emptied since the July 30 crossing.
German study puts true Covid infections at 14 per cent of PCR positives
The analysis compared nationwide swab results against antibody screening run by the same laboratories, a method other scientists say cannot show the tests were wrong.
Ousted defence minister calls for wartime elections in Ukraine
Mykhailo Fedorov's video address came hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky ruled out his return to the defence ministry.
Lagarde says Europe cannot afford to miss AI as its growth model erodes
The European Central Bank chief told business leaders in Geneva that fragmented markets and fragmented finance are stopping European firms from reaching global size.
German ruling parties demand EU sanctions on Israel’s Ben-Gvir
Berlin has been among the capitals blocking EU-level measures against the Israeli national security minister.
Wildfires spread across northern Portugal as prime minister warns of weeks of risk
More than 2,000 emergency personnel and around 20 aircraft remain committed as the Portuguese Government defends its record on burnt land.
US sanctions ICC president as Rubio vows to dismantle The Hague court
The Netherlands has objected to the designations, reviving pressure on Brussels to shield the tribunal with the EU blocking statute.
Phone numbers of UK ministers surface online after Burnham impersonation scam
The details of three cabinet ministers were found listed on the internet days after the Prime Minister exchanged texts with someone posing as a senior White House official.
Britain’s new justice secretary maintains legal fight to block UK conviction data by nationality
Alex Norris has kept in place an appeal launched by his predecessor against an order to publish seven years of figures.
Virgin Trains wins UK approval to challenge Eurostar’s cross-Channel monopoly
The British rail regulator has cleared up to 20 daily return services between London and Paris, Brussels or Amsterdam from 2030.