Hungarian prosecutors detain two Orbán-era ministers after immunity vote
Balázs Hankó and Miklós Seszták were taken into custody by a prosecution service that has had no confirmed chief since its last one resigned under pressure from…
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19 months prison for Turkish comedian who ‘insulted’ Erdogan
He was acquitted of praising crime and criminals, a charge added later over a joke about an organised-crime family known as the Daltons.
French charity accused of ‘trafficking’ after children carried to Channel boats
Footage from a beach near Boulogne-sur-Mer shows volunteers in charity tabards leading migrant children towards dinghies bound for Britain.
Nationalist protest halts first Orange Order march through Portadown in 28 years
Northern Ireland's First Minister stood among thousands of demonstrators who occupied the Garvaghy Road hours after a Belfast judge declined to quash the Parades…
MEP Alexander Sell demands APPF scrutiny of European Greens over antisemitism
In a statement issued on September 27 he said EU values “cannot be enforced selectively.”
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Polish prosecutors drop case against Lech Wałęsa on grounds of his lack of literacy
The former president enjoys good relations with the current ruling coalition led by Tusk and very bad relations with the opposition.
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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.
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.
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.