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AfD politicians barred from video game fair Gamescom
MEP Mary Khan said "With the AfD leading the polls in Saxony-Anhalt, Gamescom will soon discover that political reality is not so easy to switch off".
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German nuclear group files complaint against public broadcaster for inflating atom costs and cheapening wind
Nuklearia e.V. said NDR presented the project as if Warsaw were spending about €45 billion on something a wind park could do for €5 billion.
Serbian Ratko Mladic to be buried with highest state honours
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia convicted him in 2017 of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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…
Bronze Age gold vanishes in four-minute Spanish museum raid
The hoard was found in 1963 by the archaeologist José María Soler in a vessel buried in a dry riverbed.
Google eases EU spam rules on publisher sites after Brussels probe
The company said the change would take effect on August 30, covering the 27 EU member states plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein.
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
German industry pushes Merz towards a harder China line
For years the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the big car, chemical and machinery groups treated China as a market first and a rival second.
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Previously unpublished Novus figures put combined backing for the Social Democrats, the Left Party and the Greens at 85 per cent among Muslim respondents, against…
Crépol suspects shared Snapchat thread laced with anti-France abuse
Fourteen people of the attacking group remain under formal investigation for murder and attempted murder.
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.
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Poland seeks ‘several’ US bases but rules out nuclear warheads
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth unveiled the review at a NATO defence ministerial in Brussels on June 18 and Colby formally launched it on July 27.
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.
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…
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.