US seeks to join Musk’s court challenge to EU digital fine
Washington's request lands in a case where X is already backed by Alliance Defending Freedom International, which accuses the European Commission of trying to pierce…
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Daughter of AfD-adjacent intellectual Götz Kubitschek barred from becoming teacher over links to her father
Alruna Hauser had completed her studies in German and school music in Dresden, in the eastern German state of Saxony.
British police arrest five near air base and evacuate Gloucestershire village
Officers have given no indication of a motive and have not linked the five men to any country, group or cause.
Pope Leo XIV tells UNESCO artificial intelligence cannot answer the search for meaning
The first papal address to the UN body in 46 years came as the European Commission moved to loosen parts of its own AI rulebook.
Brussels insists EU gas supply is ‘stable’ despite depleted reserves
The European Commission has said households are protected even though storage sites are far emptier than usual ahead of winter.
Pope Leo XIV tells Macron right to life is foundation of all other rights
In his first speech on French soil, the Pontiff condemned surrogacy and assisted death in the palace where France's end-of-life law was signed in August.
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Pope Leo XIV’s four-day visit tests France’s secular consensus
The pontiff arrives in Paris for a journey that takes in the Élysée Palace, Lourdes and Metz, the first official papal trip to France in 18 years.
Socialist-run Lleida bans burqa and niqab in public with Junts and Vox votes
The Spanish city has returned to a veto on full-face veils that Supreme Court struck down in 2013, this time framed as a matter of women's rights rather than security.
Peter Thiel calls much of the media a ‘left-wing hate factory’ as Axel Springer honours him in Berlin
The media landscape, he said, was “very, very one-sided” and “nowhere near as free as we would like it to be.”
Firefighters find migrant camp in tunnels under Ceuta university campus
Residents had suspected for weeks that people who entered during the July invasion were hiding underground as numbers on the city's beaches kept rising.
German industry calls for stricter China policy
“Systemic competition with China’s economy is increasingly challenging the open social market economy and requires an appropriate industrial and trade policy…
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To kill a priest: Death in Ukrainian knife rampage at Polish abbey
Police have detained a 31-year-old Ukrainian, identified by prosecutors as Ihor M.
Netanyahu accuses Britain and France of colonial hypocrisy at the UN
Israel, he said, occupied "a tiny sliver of land" equal to about a third of one per cent of the Arab world's landmass.
Macron warns of Leipzig-style Russian attack on France despite unproven Moscow role
The French President said the German airport drone marked a shift from hybrid warfare to war, though no one has been charged and Berlin has not published its evidence.
Meloni government bans burqa and niqab in schools and caps foreign pupils per class
Parents whose children struggle with Italian will also be ordered to attend free language courses, with fines of up to €1,000 for those who refuse.
Italy returns to nuclear power after almost four decades
The law gives Giorgia Meloni's government 12 months to write the rules for a new generation of plants.
EU industry ministers still split over where ‘Made in Europe’ ends
France wants public money kept for factories inside the bloc while Germany, Italy and Spain would let trusted partners such as Britain and Canada in.
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Brussels funds jobs drive for women in Middle East and North Africa as EU unemployment rises
The European Commission put €10 million into a UN Women scheme targeting 500,000 jobs outside the bloc while 13.5 million people were out of work within it.
Mitsotakis rules out British Museum ‘loan’ as Parthenon Marbles talks stall
Athens has refused any deal that would recognise the London museum’s ownership of the sculptures after reports that five years of negotiations had broken down.
Eight far-left activists arrested over the killing of Quentin Deranque in Lyon
Prosecutor Thierry Dran said at least six people took part in the beating.
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Sweden’s Left Party leader plays down Borlänge vote-buying probe as ‘about few votes’
The accusations were "very serious", she said, and the police had to be allowed to work in peace.
Starbucks orders second wave of North American closures in barely a year
The US coffee chain is to shut some 250 outlets in the US and Canada as its chief executive presses on with a costly overhaul of the business.
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Morocco’s PAM wins low-turnout election in shadow of Ceuta crisis
Fewer than four in 10 registered voters took part after a summer in which ministers from the outgoing coalition restated Rabat's claim to the Spanish city.
Blair tells Burnham to put rejoining a reformed EU of nation states at heart of 10-year plan
He wants a Europe "on a credible path to reform, a Europe of nation states, a Europe capable of being a genuine global power".
Starlink ground station hit by suspected arson in Poland
Firefighters have said their preliminary findings point to deliberate ignition, but an electrical fault has not been ruled out.
German NGO asks European Parliament to seek probe of Greens over anti-Semitism
A citizens' dossier of 41 cases from Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands accuses the European Green Party of failing to act against anti-Jewish rhetoric in its ranks.
AfD leads North Rhine-Westphalia on a federal ballot for the first time
The governing CDU-Green coalition would still have a majority. No other two-party deal without AfD would work.
Milei tells UN it has become a ‘useless organisation’ feeding ‘fatally arrogant parasites’
He added the “gender agenda, environmental extremism and unchecked immigration”, along with Agenda 2030.
Die Linke MP in Remmo clan row sought operational detail on anti-clan raids
They asked which operations had taken place, at which places, on which days and at which hours.
Trump rolls out red carpet for Xi as US and China extend trade truce
A senior Republican senator has criticised the "lavish welcome" given to the Chinese leader, who is on his first state visit to the US since 2015.