Europe

Russia launched a record number of drones at Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian air force said Tuesday, damaging buildings and “critical infrastructure” in several regions. Moscow and Kyiv have been escalating…

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced on Tuesday she will not seek a third term in 2026, ending her tenure as the first woman to lead the French capital. “I will…

Ambassadors from Ukraine and NATO’s 32 members meet Tuesday in Brussels over Russia’s firing last week of an experimental hypersonic intermediate-range missile. Russia on Thursday carried out a strike on…

Germany’s former chancellor Angela Merkel gives a spirited defence of her 16 years at the helm of Europe’s top economy in her memoir “Freedom”, released in 30 languages on Tuesday.…

Most polls predicted Calin Georgescu to win less than 10% of the vote in the first round of Romania‘s presidential election. However, the 62-year-old obscure far-right populist shook the country’s…

The deadliest place for women is at home and 140 women and girls on average were killed by an intimate partner or family member per day last year, two U.N.…

French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen was on Monday holding talks with Prime Minister Michel Barnier as her party intensified warnings it was prepared to topple his government in a…

A Romanian hard-right NATO critic and centre-right opposition party leader will likely face each other in a Dec. 8 presidential run-off vote, results showed, in an unexpected outcome that threatens…

G7 foreign ministers on Monday are meeting near Rome for two days of talks with regional counterparts on the Middle East, before turning to Russia and the war in Ukraine.…

With evidence over in the trial of a man who drugged his wife for years so he could invite dozens of strangers to abuse her, French prosecutors will from Monday…