Norway’s King Harald, Europe’s oldest reigning monarch, dies at 89
Harald V's death after 35 years on the throne passes the crown automatically to his son, King Haakon VIII, and makes his granddaughter Ingrid Alexandra heir to a…
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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…
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Police raid AfD candidates 10 days before Saxony-Anhalt vote
Among those whose properties were searched are Simon Lansmann and Sebastian Koch, both AfD candidates for the Saxony-Anhalt State parliament.
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…
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.
‘I’ve gotten many death threats, a tremendous amount of hate’, dr. Nathan Cofnas tells Brussels Signal
He published on July 21. UK papers followed. Cambridge opened an investigation. Arday resigned on August 5 and was found dead in his home 9 days later.
US exposes Italy-based tech collective used by violent far-left groups and terrorists
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said far-left terrorism was “a profound threat to the United States and the broader West”.
France threatens aid cuts to African states over Mayotte migration
The countries concerned are the Comoros, Burundi, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Somalia and Kenya.
National emergency: Gun violence in Brussels outpaces the institutions meant to contain it
Federal and regional authorities agreed on 40 extra police officers, 20 mobile cameras and an additional infantry platoon at a security council.
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.
Berlin police has difficulties recruiting German-speaking officers
The German test, a dictation plus grammar, remains the main filter. About 40 per cent of applicants fail it.
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.
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Annalena Baerbock moves from UN presidency to Columbia University
The three-year, full-time appointment is a practice-oriented professorship rather than a research chair.
Armenian court remands former president Kocharyan in pre-trial custody
The Anti-Corruption Court ruled in his absence after the opposition leader was taken to hospital for a second time.
Belgium’s biggest wildfire in a century probably caused by government contractor
The fire broke out around midday on August 14 in the High Fens, a Natura 2000 protected peatland reserve on the Liège plateau near the German border.
Trial of alleged 9/11 ‘mastermind’ slips to June 2028
The case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has stalled for more than two decades over evidence gathered in secret CIA prisons, three of them on European soil.
Spanish police shield Ceuta migrant camp from residents
Officers fired warning shots on El Trampolín beach as demonstrators pulled down tents at a settlement the city government has asked Madrid to clear.
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Online campaign stoking Polish-Czech border row bears hallmarks of a fake
Polish security services and experts reportedly suspect that Russia may be behind the current campaign, although there is currently no definitive confirmation of…
Nearly three-quarters of Britons oppose entry for men from countries where women lack equal rights
Opposition ran at close to six to one in polling commissioned by the Women's Policy Centre.
Meta settles US child-safety claims for up to €15.5 billion
The deal resolves litigation originally filed by 29 states in 2023 and later joined by additional states and territories.
Driver kills two after ramming crowd outside French railway station
Prosecutors in Caen have opened a murder investigation after a car was driven into pedestrians waiting near a tram stop.
Jerusalem court acquits settler over attack on French nun, orders psychiatric detention
Prosecutors said he recognised the woman by her habit, ran at her, pushed her to the ground and kicked her.
Nepal flood death toll climbs as hundreds remain missing, among them scores of Europeans
Ukraine reports the largest European group unaccounted for as Brussels activates its Copernicus satellite service and Nepali police warn the toll will rise significantly.
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Kelin’s exit predates the drone row used to explain Moscow’s London vacancy
Retirement, a thin bench of candidates and a pattern already seen in Brussels and Vilnius may explain more than retaliation.
Netanyahu rules out deal with Iran’s ‘savages’ as US sanctions target Tehran’s helpers
The Israeli prime minister has welcomed Washington's decision to squeeze third countries and firms still trading with Tehran.
Le Maire proposes six-country federation to counter European Commission
Former French economy minister argues that the EU's 27-member structure has become too cumbersome to respond effectively to growing competition from the US and China.