UN Palestine rapporteur Albanese says NATO keeps Ukraine war open and backs halt to arms
The political calculation that kept "that front" open, she said, "does not originate in Europe, but inside NATO, NATO led by the United States".
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Brussels presses Beijing to cap hybrid car exports after imports rise more than tenfold
Trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič is due in Beijing next month with an October deadline for “tangible results”.
Google fined €403 million for EU location-data breaches
Ireland is Google’s lead EU supervisor because the company’s European headquarters are in Dublin.
BBC cuts 11 ‘racist’ Mitchell and Webb sketches from iPlayer anniversary release
Viewers and Reddit users noticed the gaps after the iPlayer upload. Neither Mitchell nor Webb has commented. BBC News said it had asked them.
Infantino offers FIFA governance review after World Cup investment plan collapses
UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation and Concacaf later called for changes to FIFA’s leadership.
German Europe minister says Costa has lost touch with reality on EU budget
Berlin's Europe minister has rejected the European Council President's push for new EU taxes as net contributors demand deep cuts to the European Commission's near-€2…
Kallas calls for tougher action on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ as sanctions renewal stalls
The EU foreign policy chief has said Europe must raise the price Moscow pays for its sabotage campaign, while also asking member states for more warships in the…
Macron and Trump eye diplomatic fixes for Hormuz without ‘global deal’
The French President has also pressed Washington to speed up interceptor deliveries to Kyiv and has backed an energy truce between Ukraine and Russia.
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What is Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ and how does it work?
A network of ageing tankers grew out of the 2022 oil sanctions and carried more than half of Moscow's seaborne oil in August.
US asks Poland to postpone defence minister’s Pentagon visit
Warsaw is sending two deputy ministers to Washington in his place, days after Donald Trump hailed progress towards a permanent US Army base in Poland.
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Italy weighs pulling Red Sea warships from EU command as Rome hits out at Brussels bureaucracy
Defence Minister Guido Crosetto is considering placing Italian naval assets deployed under the EU’s Aspides mission under national command to protect merchant…
White House launches Trump TV as networks boycott pool coverage over press ban
The round-the-clock stream went live hours after the main US television networks stopped supplying shared footage of the President in protest at the exclusion of…
CDU still a ‘people’s party’ despite state parliament wipeout, deputy group leader says
Krings acknowledged "crafting errors" in the federal government and said he was "not satisfied with all aspects of the government reshuffle".
Jet fuel shortfall set to persist in Europe until year-end as Asian imports rise
The third-quarter pattern was similar.
Dutch teenagers’ acceptance of homosexuality drops sharply
Among boys aged 12 to 16, the share with a positive view dropped from 40 per cent in 2021 to 22 per cent in 2025.
Judge sends Pedro Sánchez’s wife Begoña Gómez to jury trial
Gómez is set to answer charges of influence peddling and embezzlement, in a ruling Moncloa has condemned as arbitrary and unjust.
Dutch police to stop hosting iftars as neutrality rules tighten
Officers may still attend events run by others, such as Christmas, Easter, Ramadan, Hanukkah, Diwali, Purim or Holi, provided they do not take part in religious…
Strasbourg mayor says city finances in ruins after one term of Green rule
City debt is put at about €494 million in 2026, against €241 million in 2020. The Eurométropole's is put at €911 million, against €579 million.
Călin Georgescu arrested in early hours with huge police force
Officers of the organised-crime and terrorism directorate and the national police executed five home-search warrants in Bucharest, Mogoșoaia, Ciolpani and Buftea.
CDU crisis: Party leadership closes ranks behind Merz after state election rout
Senior Christian Democrats have backed the Chancellor at a crisis meeting in Berlin while conceding the party must change as Alternative for Germany surges in the…
French debt heads for highest level in nearly half a century
The finance ministry has forecast public debt close to 120 per cent of GDP this year as Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu struggles to get an austerity budget through…
Median-priced homes slip further out of reach for typical US households
A buyer in the United States would need an income 44 per cent above the national median to own the typical home without breaching the standard affordability threshold.
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Meloni announces foreign student cap and burqa ban in Italian schools
Rome says newcomers must learn the national language, understand local culture and follow its rules, as demographic shifts reshape classrooms and the wider population.
Berlin crime boss appears at Die Linke election party after party’s city-wide win
Issa Remmo was “pleased about Die Linke,” that he felt supported by a German party for the first time.
Brussels holds firm on Arctic drilling moratorium despite Norwegian pressure
The European Union's opposition to new oil and gas projects in the Arctic is set to survive a revision of its strategy for the region, despite lobbying from Oslo…
Putin’s United Russia sweeps Duma vote
A Just Russia was on course to drop out of parliament after falling below the 5 per cent threshold, according to partial results.
Merz refuses to change course after CDU is wiped out in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
The Christian Democrats have failed to win seats in a German State parliament for the first time in their history.
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Moody’s downgrades Poland’s credit rating as rearmament-fired debt mounts
Fears of imminent armed conflict are on the rise, while the country is hampered by political gridlock between a government and President engaged in an uneasy cohabitation.
Die Linke wins Berlin election as CDU vote collapses
The far-left party has doubled its support in the German capital and could lead a new city government with the Greens and the Social Democrats.
AfD wins Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as Merz’s CDU crashes out of parliament
The right-wing party has topped the poll in the northeastern German state for the first time, ending almost three decades of Social Democrat dominance.