Europe

Pope Francis‘s condition “continues to be critical”, the Vatican said Saturday, saying the 88-year-old was alert but had suffered a respiratory attack that required “high-flow oxygen”, and also blood transfusions.…

German politicians made a final scramble for votes Saturday on the eve of crucial elections in which conservatives are favoured to win despite the dramatic rise of the far right.…

One person died and two police officers were seriously injured Saturday in a knife attack in eastern France that President Emmanuel Macron said was an “Islamist terror act”. Prosecutors said…

Mohamed Amra, a French fugitive known as “The Fly”, who was freed by gunmen in a brazen attack against a prison van in May, was arrested in Romania on Saturday, the French interior…

At the heart of Grünheide, a small town in Brandenburg, two places define daily life. First, the Marktplatz, or market square, at the crossroads of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels…

France’s annual agriculture show, Le Salon d’Agriculture, will open its doors on Saturday with more than 600,000 visitors expected at the south-east Paris exhibition space at Porte de Versailles, where…

German police said on Friday that a man was badly wounded in an assault, “possibly with a sharp object”, at central Berlin’s Holocaust memorial near the US embassy. “A man…

Entrepreneur Sebastian Kürten moved to Forst, a small town in eastern Germany, just before the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike the rest of the Brandenburg state, which is experiencing a boom in…

The Baltic Sea region is on alert and the NATO alliance has boosted its presence after a series of power cable, telecom and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine…

Volodymyr Zelensky called for “strong” ties with Washington on Thursday, as he met US envoy Keith Kellogg in Kyiv a day after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian leader a “dictator.” …