Under pressure over China backers, Mercedes CEO pledges to defend US business
Mercedes-Benz's CEO pledged on Tuesday to shield its U.S. business from a possible sales ban, as concerns in Washington over the German carmaker's Chinese
July 28, 2026Mercedes-Benz's CEO pledged on Tuesday to shield its U.S. business from a possible sales ban, as concerns in Washington over the German carmaker's Chinese
July 28, 2026
Firefighters combating Spain's biggest wildfire on record say they have never seen a fire of such power
July 28, 2026
A court ruling expands the options for corporate accountability efforts against oil companies in France, and it may have repercussions in the US and elsewhere.
July 28, 2026
France was bracing for its fourth major heatwave of the year on Tuesday, as soaring temperatures and tinder-dry conditions across
July 28, 2026
The German economy likely grew modestly in the second quarter, despite headwinds from the war in the Middle East, as its vast industrial sector remained relatively
July 28, 2026
Britain's governing Labour Party has caught up with, or overtaken, Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK in the polls, according to three different surveys
July 28, 2026
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called on Tuesday for an end to xenophobic attacks against Ukrainians in Poland, after a series of hate crimes hit the headlines in recent
July 28, 2026
Mercedes-Benz posted a higher profit in the second quarter helped by tough cost cuts, pushing its shares up on Tuesday, but intense Chinese competition
July 28, 2026
Romania is taking a new approach to drones entering its airspace by shooting them down
July 28, 2026
Lawyers are making closing addresses in the Australian trial of British entertainer Yung Filly on charges that he raped and choked a fan following a music performance two years ago
July 28, 2026
Behind a haze of smoke, dreamlike portraits of queer Muslim life
July 28, 2026
Shares in LVMH slipped 1.5% on Tuesday after the French luxury giant's second-quarter results failed to reassure investors that a broader recovery in luxury demand was firmly
July 28, 2026
Spain's unemployment rate fell back below 10% in the second quarter of 2026, reaching its lowest level since 2008 even as the labour force rose
July 28, 2026
European shares rose for a third straight session on Tuesday, as strong results from Unilever helped lift consumer-focused stocks
July 28, 2026
A decades-long crackdown on Google's business practices in Europe is entering a costly new phase, as the loss of the first case
July 28, 2026
Chinese President Xi Jinping hopes Slovakia will play a constructive role in the development of European Union's relations with China, focusing on properly handling
July 28, 2026
Stellantis has agreed to sell its Free2move car-sharing unit to German investment company Mutares, the automaker said on Tuesday, as CEO Antonio Filosa continues efforts to
July 28, 2026
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched a fresh effort on Tuesday to coax Cyprus' rival sides back into peace talks after nearly a decade of deadlock.
July 28, 2026
The U.N. refugee agency is marking the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention
July 28, 2026
An apartment building in Chekhov near Russian capital Moscow has been hit in a drone attack, regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said in a Telegram post on Tuesday.
July 28, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron has urged fire crews to “stay strong” as they battle to bring a monster wildfire under control, warning that the fight will take time
July 27, 2026
Irish consumer sentiment fell slightly in July on concerns about the cost of living, a survey showed on Tuesday.
July 28, 2026
Average prices at British retailers rose by an annual 0.9% this month, the smallest increase since December 2025, as the men's soccer world cup triggered supermarket
July 28, 2026
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July 28, 2026
A federal judge on Monday rejected Chobani's bid to dismiss a lawsuit by the parent of rival U.S. yogurt brand Dannon for allegedly copying the
July 28, 2026
Thinking of traveling to Spain or France? Here's what to know
July 28, 2026
U.S. diplomats walked out as their French counterparts spoke at the United Nations after the European ally criticized the Trump administration’s human rights record
July 28, 2026
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena and Banco BPM advisers are exploring a merger that would mix cash and shares as a possible alternative to Intesa Sanpaolo's offer for Monte Paschi,
July 27, 2026
Baker Hughes said on Monday it expects annual global spending by oil and gas producers to decline modestly this year, with growth in Latin
July 27, 2026
The U.S. walked out as France addressed a United Nations Security Council meeting on Ukraine on Monday, accusing its longtime ally of "disingenuous grandstanding"
July 28, 2026
His lawyer says Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Wu Chi-wai has been granted permission to stay in the U
July 28, 2026
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is drawing moviegoers to Prague for its rare 70 mm IMAX experience
July 28, 2026
Germany's interior minister announced a security overhaul on Monday after a deadly vehicle attack near Berlin's Pride celebration
July 27, 2026
Austria's coalition government plans to extend military service to nine months from six to adapt to a security landscape changed by the war in Ukraine,
July 27, 2026
A former Hong Kong opposition leader has been granted permission to remain in Britain with his family for six months after the authorities withdrew an order limiting his
July 27, 2026
Romania's foreign ministry said on Monday it had expelled a diplomat at Russia's embassy after repeated violations of its national airspace by drones, saying it had
July 27, 2026
Firefighters sought on Monday to take advantage of more favourable weather conditions to subdue massive wildfires threatening the
July 27, 2026
Sales at luxury giant LVMH edged higher in the second quarter as strong demand from affluent U.S. shoppers helped offset weaker spending in Europe, where
July 27, 2026
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan asked Russian President Vladimir Putin during a phone call on Monday to help resolve a dispute over Russian restrictions on Armenian exports
July 27, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and new U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham have discussed joint drone projects and Ukraine’s urgent need for ballistic missile interceptors during a visit to a British naval base
July 27, 2026
The Iran and Ukraine wars are colliding on the world’s biggest lake. Here’s what to know
July 27, 2026
Poland asked the U.S. on Monday to extradite fugitive former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, who faces 26 charges mainly related to the alleged misuse of money from a
July 27, 2026
French police detained a man on Monday after he attacked three women with knives before bystanders pinned him to the ground and an off-duty police officer
July 27, 2026
Britain's new prime minister, Andy Burnham, welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as his first international visitor on Monday, in a move that underscores
July 27, 2026
Tadej Pogacar’s record-equaling fifth Tour de France title puts him among the greatest cyclists in the sport
July 27, 2026
A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its towering smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said
July 27, 2026
A majority of U.S. companies operating in Europe now expect stable transatlantic trade and investment relations, a marked improvement from their
July 27, 2026
The private equity arm of Goldman Sachs has agreed to acquire control of Italian medical equipment maker Numantec from White Bridge Investment, the companies said, betting
July 27, 2026
The 21-year-old suspect in a weekend attack on the Berlin Pride celebration in which one person was killed and more than two dozen wounded was shot dead by police on Sunday
July 27, 2026
Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who generated both fascination and revulsion around the globe with his “Body Worlds” exhibits of preserved human corpses, has died
July 27, 2026
Elon Musk's Tesla on Monday won its bid to revive a London lawsuit brought against U.S. technology firm InterDigital and a patent licensing platform, seeking a patent
July 27, 2026
Saab has received an order for two GlobalEye surveillance aircraft from a country in the Middle East region worth 10.1 billion Swedish crowns ($1.04 billion), with deliveries
July 27, 2026
German luxury carmaker Porsche will cut around one in five jobs by 2035, with 9,000 positions to be axed in total, as parent Volkswagen
July 27, 2026
Bernard Arnault, the billionaire chairman of French luxury group LVMH, has dismissed media reports of a bitter succession battle among his five children,
July 27, 2026
British retailers reported the smallest downturn in sales in six months in July but remained gloomy overall due to continued cost pressures, the Confederation of British
July 27, 2026
Immo Feldmer continues the ancient tradition of charcoal burning in Germany's Harz Mountains
July 27, 2026
The European Central Bank will need to raise interest rates at least once more to contain inflation and a deterioration in the outlook could warrant more tightening than
July 27, 2026
A second suspect detained in connection with a deadly car-ramming attack on Berlin's Pride celebrations over the weekend has been released, the German federal prosecutors'
July 27, 2026
The centre of the modernist Baltic port city of Gdynia, built almost from scratch during the two decades between World War One and World War Two, was added to UNESCO's
July 27, 2026
European shares ended little changed on Monday as losses in technology stocks, led by ASML, stifled a rally fuelled by easing U.S
July 27, 2026
German business morale grew more than expected in July as the outlook for companies improved across sectors, a survey showed on Monday, although they
July 27, 2026
The Kremlin said on Monday that it had not seen any specific information regarding new proposals for a peace settlement in Ukraine ahead of a meeting in Washington between
July 27, 2026
Ukraine wants a prototype for a European anti-ballistic system codenamed Freyja to be ready within the first half of next year, a senior official said, as Kyiv
July 27, 2026
German authorities say the suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that killed one person and left 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation in a suburb of the city
July 26, 2026
The Ukrainian capital Kyiv came under ballistic missile attack from Russian forces early on Sunday, local
July 26, 2026
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday a Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel "cannot go unanswered".
July 26, 2026
A raging wildfire in southwest France has forced the evacuation of 55,000 more people overnight
July 26, 2026
Berlin police shot dead the suspect being sought over the Pride attack in the German capital, they said on X, after he tried to attack them with a bladed weapon at an
July 26, 2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will propose that conservative parliamentary director Steffen Bilger replace Patrick Schnieder as transport minister as part of an ongoing cabinet
July 27, 2026
German police said a 21-year-old man with a record of Islamist extremist activity was shot dead on Sunday, a day after he
July 26, 2026
Wildfires advanced towards the outskirts of the historic French city of Bordeaux, at the heart of the country's winelands, on
July 26, 2026
An international cargo vessel sank off the coast of Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa on Sunday, a week after Ukrainian officials said it had been struck by Russian forces.
July 27, 2026
Five Bosnian climbers died on Russia's Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe, after being caught in a violent storm, but the bodies of three people have not yet
July 26, 2026
Laura Loomer became infamous for spreading conspiracy theories online
July 26, 2026
Elvira Menéndez knows how lucky she is that her house is not a charred ruin like so many others in Spain and France, devastated by raging wildfires
July 27, 2026
A fatal attack on Berlin’s Pride festival has left locals wondering how their city will recover
July 26, 2026
Romania has shot down a suspected Russian drone after it crossed into its airspace
July 26, 2026
Deep underground, the Nazis built a city for thousands of soldiers. Now it’s a tourist attraction
October 18, 2025
Lando Norris ended an eight-month wait for a Formula 1 victory with strong pace and a dose of good fortune to win the Hungarian Grand Prix
July 26, 2026
Russian ballistic missiles struck Kyiv early Sunday, igniting fires and wounding at least three civilians
July 26, 2026
Ukraine sees highest civilian casualties since 2022
July 26, 2026
Concerned for her kids’ safety, she traded the hustle of Las Vegas for life on a sleepy Italian island
July 26, 2026
Members of Berlin's LGBTQ community and others voiced grief, anger and solidarity on Sunday after a vehicle rammed into crowds at the city's annual
July 26, 2026
Firefighters battled to control wildfires threatening the French city of Bordeaux on Sunday, while authorities evacuated increasing numbers of
July 26, 2026
A sanatorium designed to foster a soothing environment to help tuberculosis patients recover was among a series of sites by Finnish architect
July 26, 2026
The Normandy D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, to fight Adolf Hitler's Nazi troops and go on to liberate France have become a UNESCO protected world
July 26, 2026
A Romanian F-16 fighter jet pilot shot down a Russian drone over the Black Sea, the defence ministry said on Sunday, the latest in a series of breaches of the NATO
July 26, 2026
One person has been killed and 17 injured, with some in life-threatening condition, after a vehicle mowed down a crowd
July 26, 2026
Germany has seen a series of vehicle-ramming incidents since a 2016 attack on Berlin's Breitscheidplatz Christmas market, prompting repeated security alerts around public
July 26, 2026
A van has slammed into people gathered for Berlin’s famed LGBTQ+ event, killing one person, injuring at least 16 others and prompting police to call off the celebrations and a concert in the German capital hours after they had begun
July 26, 2026
A suspected perpetrator of the apparent car attack on Pride celebrations in Berlin on Saturday night has been identified as a member of the city's "Islamist scene" but he
July 26, 2026
Nikki Hiltz survived a three-way sprint finish to win a fourth successive outdoor U.S. national
July 26, 2026
A car drove into a crowd near Berlin's Pride celebrations on Saturday evening, injuring several people, Berlin police said.
July 26, 2026
France is using a massive cargo aircraft to dump flame retardants on a wildfire near the wine country city of Bordeaux
July 25, 2026
Iran's Foreign Ministry condemned on Saturday a Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, saying it resulted in an explosion that killed one sailor and
July 26, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Russia wanted to bring in 30,000 North Korean troops to take part in its more than four-year-old conflict and was
July 25, 2026
Wildfires on the coast of southwestern France moved inland towards Bordeaux on Saturday, forcing the
July 25, 2026
Ukrainian forces attacked holiday camps in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region, killing 12 people, including four children
July 25, 2026
After being ‘bamboozled by Russian propaganda,’ Laura Loomer says she’s all in for Ukraine
July 25, 2026
Israeli forces arrested dozens of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, after at least four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed
July 25, 2026
Less booze, more moves: Inside the UK’s new Gen Z social scene
July 25, 2026
The global battle for Italian citizenship rights just got a potential lifeline
July 25, 2026
The Alpine farmers who make one of Switzerland's most famous cheeses are seeking to fill the hole in
July 25, 2026
Winds will pick up in Spain on Saturday, with gusts of up to 60 kph (38 mph), complicating the fight against out-of-control wildfires west of Madrid, the Interior Ministry
July 25, 2026
Supporters of the International Criminal Court are trying to chart a course forward following the removal of the global institution’s chief prosecutor over allegations of sexual misconduct
July 25, 2026
Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said he has offered Mykhailo Fedorov, recently sacked as Ukraine's defence minister, a role as an adviser in Italy.
July 25, 2026
Ukraine is still fortifying its border with Belarus more than four years after Russia used the country to launch its assault on Kyiv
July 25, 2026
Massive forest fires are raging out of control in southwestern France and central Spain, forcing authorities to evacuate around 200,000 people
July 24, 2026
A suspect in two stabbings on New York City streets has been arrested on attempted murder and other charges
July 25, 2026
Member states of the International Criminal Court voted to dismiss prosecutor Karim Khan for serious misconduct, the ICC said on Friday.
July 24, 2026
ICC member states vote to dismiss chief prosecutor Khan
July 25, 2026
The U.N. General Assembly on Friday voted overwhelmingly to extend the term of U.N.
July 25, 2026
A Russian ballistic missile strike on Friday in Ukraine's Kyiv region killed 10 people and injured close to 100 at the site of a defence industry event that President Volodymyr
July 24, 2026
Protesters in Kyiv on Friday announced an open-ended rally demanding that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reappoint ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov
July 25, 2026
Tens of thousands of people fled wildfires in southwest France by car and boat on Friday, and
July 24, 2026
Karim Khan became one of the best-known international prosecutors in May 2024 when he announced he was seeking arrest warrants for Israeli
July 25, 2026
The European Central Bank still considers the current inflation shock to be medium-sized, which requires some policy action but not aggressive moves, and it will get
July 24, 2026
Residents began entering the southern Lebanese town of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh on Friday, some inspecting damaged homes
July 24, 2026
An autopsy found no signs of violence in the death of modelling scout Daniel Siad, who had ties to the late convicted U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, French prosecutors
July 24, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy are scheduled to meet in Washington on Tuesday, a White House official said on Friday.
July 24, 2026
Schools in Estonia's Tartu, where children have already experienced a drone heading towards them from the Russian border, are putting protective
July 24, 2026
Commerzbank Chairman Jens Weidmann on Friday invited UniCredit to open talks on the terms of a merger, as the German lender abandoned its
July 24, 2026
Germany has hired Jürgen Klopp to coach its national team, giving the ex-Liverpool manager a daunting task to turn around the fortunes of a squad which failed yet again at the World Cup
July 24, 2026
It's all about central banks this week and rising energy prices will likely keep rate-setters as distant as Tokyo, Washington and London on their toes even if they welcome
July 24, 2026