Europe

“We must face the fact that there are serious challenges regarding security and defence in the Arctic and North Atlantic,” Denmark‘s Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said in a statement.…

Britain‘s foreign office on Monday said it had sanctioned six Belarus individuals and three defence sector firms, a day after a “sham election” in which autocrat Alexander Lukashenko won a…

A fire overnight Sunday to Monday ravaged the roof and bell tower of a town hall in one of Paris‘s districts, police and firefighters said. Nobody was hurt in the…

France placed swathes of Brittany in the west of the country on red weather alert Monday as a violent storm brought flood levels not seen in decades. The “Herminia” depression…

The Swedish coast guard chased and intercepted a Bulgarian ship after a fibre-optic cable under the Baltic Sea linking Sweden to Latvia was damaged, its owner said on Monday. Latvia…

Click on the player above to watch the ceremony live. Auschwitz survivors were being joined by world leaders on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the…

In his Holocaust memoir, “The Truce”, Italian prisoner Primo Levi recounted his first contact with the Red Army soldiers when Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated. “The first Russian patrol came…

Latvia said it had dispatched a warship on Sunday after damage to a fibre optic cable to Sweden that may have been “due to external factors”. The navy said it…

Belarus’s autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won re-election Sunday in an election without real competition and slammed by the EU as a “sham”, a state exit poll said.…

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday in favour of a 69-year-old Frenchwoman, identified as H.W., whose husband had obtained a divorce by citing her refusal to…