Portuguese wildfires encircle Algarve resort town
AFP | Hundreds of Portuguese firefighters and soldiers battled ferocious forest fires that threatened to engulf an Algarve resort town Tuesday as meteorologists warned of...
Iraq sentences two Europeans to life for IS membership
AFP | An Iraqi court on Monday sentenced a French man and a German woman to life in prison in the latest punishments handed down...
Spanish paedophile jailed in Germany for ‘buying’ boy online
AFP | A German court on Monday jailed a Spanish man for 10 years for repeatedly sexually abusing a young boy whose mother and stepfather...
European losers in new Iranian sanctions game
AFP | US President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran and reimpose a raft of...
WWII vintage plane crashes into Swiss mountainside, 20 dead
AFP | Twenty people died when a vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountain at the weekend, police said Sunday, as an...
More than 1,500 migrant deaths in Mediterranean this year: UNHCR
AFP | More than 1,500 refugees and migrants have died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in the first seven months of this...
Three dead in Spain as Europe wilts under record heatwave
AFP | Three men have died from heatstroke in Spain as Europe sweltered in a record heatwave Friday, with temperatures hitting a scorching 45 degrees...
Massive corruption scandal rocks Belarus healthcare
AFP | A massive corruption scandal has rocked the health service of ex-Soviet Belarus, leading even officials in the country dubbed "Europe's last dictatorship" to...
France adopts law on asylum, immigration
AFP | France's parliament Wednesday signed into law a controversial asylum and immigration bill -- despite opposition on the left which decried an effort to...
Spain taxi strike against Uber to continue
AFP | Taxi drivers across Spain were set to keep striking on Tuesday against ride hailing competitors such as Uber and Cabify, which they say...
Hungary PM says does not want a European Union led by France
AFP | Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday said in an interview he did "not want a European Union led by France", adding that...
Armenia grants arrest warrant for ex-president over vote rigging
AFP | An Armenian court on Friday granted prosecutors an arrest warrant for former president Robert Kocharyan on charges of "overthrowing constitutional order" by rigging...