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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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EU trademark office clears way for challenge to Vannacci’s party name
A conservative think tank close to Italy’s governing right has filed the challenge as the former League general faces mounting attacks from figures across Giorgia…
Croatia’s wartime grievances threaten Montenegro’s EU accession timetable
Zagreb has kept blocking key negotiating chapters as Podgorica races to wrap up membership talks with Brussels by the end of the year.
MCC Brussels team launches new think tank after Hungarian funding cut
The group says it is building its own funding and partnerships and is already fundraising. Donations are solicited on the site.
Belgian law opens prison door for Bataclan attacks logistician
Bakkali, a 39-year-old Belgian-Moroccan from Verviers, eastern Belgium, helped with the logistics of several terrorist attacks.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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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.
French TV channel apologises after documentary shows French nuclear missile hitting Tel Aviv
The clip ran in Rafale, drones et canons : la révolution des armes françaises, a documentary on modern French weaponry first broadcast on September 1.
European Parliament calls for front-line anti-drug police to be classed as ‘high-risk’
Parliament wants more money, vessels and legal cover for the officers confronting trafficking networks in European Union waters.
Labour MP apologises after calling for ‘military action’ against Israel
Tahir Ali also wanted the Israeli ambassador barred from the Commons, matching the Speaker’s response when China banned British MPs.