German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Wednesday that the European Union will work on imposing further sanctions on Russian individuals in the coming weeks.
September 02, 2026European shares edged lower on Wednesday, pressured by elevated bond yields as escalating tensions in the Middle East stoked
September 02, 2026German police were on Wednesday investigating a second sabotage attempt on the electricity grid within 24 hours, a day after Berlin blamed Russia for an attempted drone
September 02, 2026Fishermen in Italy have shifted from incinerating invasive Atlantic blue crabs to commercializing them
September 02, 2026For the first time in recent history, Danish conscripts have been deployed to Greenland, as Denmark moves to bolster its presence in the Arctic after U.S.
September 02, 2026Joshua Wong has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled Hong Kong’s once-thriving pro-democracy movement
September 02, 2026A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Gregor Stuart Hunter Bond yields are hitting new milestones as fighting resumes between the U.S. and Iran and oil prices surge, sending
September 02, 2026British banks are increasingly pledging higher-risk assets such as loans linked to high-interest store cards and vehicle
September 02, 2026The story of the U.S. is intertwined with its military history, from its creation in 1776 to the expansion of its physical borders to its role in the global political and economic order
September 02, 2026Shabana Basij-Rasikh leads the School of Leadership of Afghanistan that's now based in Rwanda
September 02, 2026Nicaragua's Congress on Tuesday passed a constitutional reform that bans opposition parties from participating in elections and extends the presidential term from six to seven years
September 02, 2026The long wait: Inside the courthouse where Lindsay Clancy’s fate hangs in the balance
September 02, 2026A record-breaking spending spree by English soccer clubs has reached its climax with Manchester City signing midfielder Enzo Fernandez from Chelsea for 125 million pounds ($169 million)
September 01, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov will discuss humanitarian issues in the Ukraine conflict with papal envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi later this
September 02, 2026A Brussels court has ordered Belgian biometrics company Semlex and 13 other defendants to stand trial over alleged corruption,
September 02, 2026Venezuela’s main airport has partially resumed operations nearly 10 weeks after two devastating earthquakes
September 02, 2026Britain said on Tuesday it would provide more than £50 million ($67.56 million) in new funding to support efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
September 02, 2026A Honduran court has dropped charges against former President Juan Orlando Hernandez over fraud and money laundering, judiciary
September 02, 2026Britain's economy is set to grow a bit faster than previously expected in 2026 after withstanding the initial impact of the Iran war but firms remain wary about investment,
September 02, 2026EU antitrust regulators are seeking feedback from publishers on Google's proposal to let them opt out of AI search without affecting their rankings in
September 02, 2026Sweden's Volvo Cars said on Monday it will close its Stockholm office, where 450 people currently work, relocating responsibilities to its Gothenburg headquarters as part
August 31, 2026The Justice Department says it has seized more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency donations intended for Hamas
September 02, 2026Russia's embassy in Germany said on Tuesday that German allegations that Russia was responsible for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle airport last month were an
September 02, 2026Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S.
September 01, 2026The Trump administration won backing from all G20 financial leaders except China's on Tuesday to act against "non-
September 01, 2026The German government has blamed Russia for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month using a drone laden with explosives
September 01, 2026Germany blames Russia for drone attack on Leipzig airport
September 01, 2026USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public
September 01, 2026More than 10 European Union members are willing to contribute resources and people to a planned mission to advise and train Lebanon's armed forces, EU foreign policy
September 01, 2026The German government said on Tuesday that it had concluded that Russia was responsible for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month
September 01, 2026UK husband accused of drugging and sexually abusing his wife stands trial with 12 others
September 01, 2026Alligator on Central Florida highway causes chain-reaction crash, leaving woman dead
September 01, 2026Tesla's supervised self-driving technology recorded 4.1 times fewer collisions than manually driven Tesla cars in the five European countries where it is permitted, the
September 01, 2026A whistleblower told Congress that the U.S.
September 01, 2026Volkswagen's management board plans to propose ending production at four German plants between 2031 and 2034, German business outlet WirtschaftsWoche reported on Tuesday.
September 01, 2026Injuries and three straight losses in warmups have not dimmed hopes for host team Germany at the Women’s Basketball World Cup in Berlin
September 01, 2026A majority of Americans oppose President Donald Trump's moves last week to raise taxes on imported Canadian goods and his order to rename Lake Ontario as
September 01, 2026For the first time on record, Iran has gone about seven weeks without shipping meaningful crude exports through the Strait
September 01, 2026Israeli special forces captured a Hamas militant leader in a raid in Gaza City on Tuesday while Israeli air strikes meant to protect those troops killed
September 01, 2026A submersible vessel has joined the search for 20 people missing for two days following a ferry disaster off the coast of Cyprus
September 01, 2026Germany is set to blame Russia for an attempted drone attack on a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle airport in August and could prepare new sanctions
September 01, 2026Italy's far-right movement led by former army general Roberto Vannacci has overtaken co-ruling Forza Italia in opinion polls, a survey showed on Tuesday,
September 01, 2026More than a month after flames tore through Serbia's Deliblatska Pescara reserve, foresters are facing tough choices as they work on plans to restore
September 01, 2026For more than a century, in cases involving defendants ranging from a 19th-century Chicago bank clerk charged with theft to a Central American dictator accused of
September 01, 2026They were building infrastructure in Nepal. Their families in China want to know what happened to them
September 01, 2026An unprecedented deal for the U.S. to gain access to a fifth of Venezuela's oil reserves - and the central role a Venezuelan businessman
September 01, 2026China has warned of consequences for Taiwan after officials from Beijing and Taipei attended a Pacific leaders summit
September 01, 2026King Haakon VIII of Norway took an oath before parliament on Tuesday following the death of his father, pledging to uphold the
September 01, 2026Russia said on Tuesday it would announce a new ambassador to Britain in due course, weeks after its previous envoy left London at a dire point in bilateral ties
September 01, 2026Euro zone inflation rose back above 3% in August on higher energy costs, cementing an already solid case for another European Central Bank interest rate
September 01, 2026The spike in euro zone inflation since the start of the war in Iran has almost entirely been driven by higher energy prices, justifying the European Central Bank's small
September 01, 2026Russia said on Tuesday it would announce a new ambassador to Britain in due course, weeks after its previous envoy left London at a dire point in bilateral ties
September 01, 2026Growth in the euro zone's manufacturing sector hit its fastest pace in more than four years in August, driven by the strongest rise in new orders since early 2022 and output
September 01, 2026Germany's manufacturing sector accelerated in August, as a jump in new orders drove the strongest production growth since January 2022, a business survey showed on Tuesday.
September 01, 2026A school in Thailand where a student went on a deadly shooting rampage three weeks ago reopened on Tuesday amid heightened security,
September 01, 2026Russia has launched a large aerial assault in and around Ukraine's capital that has killed at least 11 people
September 01, 2026A specialist team from Turkey equipped to search deep waters started work on Tuesday to pinpoint the wreckage of a ferry that capsized off northern Cyprus on Sunday, with
September 01, 2026As Poland builds Europe's biggest army, it is pivoting toward domestic and other central European defence
September 01, 2026A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Europe enters autumn with benchmark gas prices at 3-1/2-year highs and stocks at their lowest ever for the time of year on
September 01, 2026New Zealand and the U.S. will jointly fund a major upgrade of a World War Two port on a Cook Islands atoll, the three governments said on Tuesday, in a
September 01, 2026Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job
September 01, 2026(This Aug 31 story has been republished, with no changes to text.)
September 01, 2026Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial have ended a third day of deliberating without a verdict
August 31, 2026British retailers raised prices by the most in more than two years last month, as higher energy prices pushed up the cost of some processed food and the artificial
September 01, 2026Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submits resignation after tension with Hegseth
September 01, 2026President Donald Trump's administration is planning to spend $4
September 01, 2026The United States' move to welcome Russia back to a meeting of G20 countries on Monday while denying some
August 31, 2026A second-half goal from Bukayo Saka has given Arsenal a 1-0 win over Aston Villa in the Premier League
September 01, 2026The benchmark 10-year U.S.
September 01, 2026State Farm was sued on Monday by Los Angeles County, which accused the largest U.S. home insurer of mishandling claims by victims of the January 2025 wildfires
September 01, 2026The European Commission on Monday said ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox will need to adhere to the EU regulations for very large online platforms and search engines.
August 31, 2026European financial ministers and officials bristled on Monday over Russia's participation at the G20 finance meeting, with Germany's
September 01, 2026Edouard Balladur, who was France's prime minister from 1993 to 1995, has died at 97, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on X on Monday.
September 01, 2026As the WNBA goes on its FIBA World Cup break, no team has more players headed to Germany then the New York Liberty
August 31, 2026The highest-ranking officer in the U.S. military says there are no plans to send troops to polling places during November’s midterm congressional elections
August 31, 2026The jury trial of a Maltese businessman accused of masterminding the car bomb murder of prominent anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia entered its final phase
August 31, 2026Man says attackers shouted anti-LGBTQ, racist slurs before beating him
August 31, 2026Man accused of killing mother before fleeing scene surrenders to police
August 31, 2026France and Sweden have signed agreements for France to supply the Nordic country with four modern frigates
August 31, 2026Sweden signed an order for four Naval Group frigates during a ceremony in Stockholm on Monday attended by French President Emmanuel Macron and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf
August 31, 2026Kalshi permanently banned former U.S. congressman George Santos from its platform on Monday and imposed a penalty of $71,356, citing insider trading.
August 31, 2026Italy said on Monday it would suspend its open-border arrangements with Spain for another 15 days, extending restrictions it imposed after a mass rush of migrants into the
August 31, 2026Germany's largest union, IG Metall, on Monday warned of maximum resistance to any efforts by Volkswagen to unwind a previously
August 31, 2026The party of Kosovo's caretaker prime minister, Albin Kurti, Vetevendosje (VV) and the opposition Democratic League
August 31, 2026Israeli airstrikes killed at least five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Monday, health officials said.
August 31, 2026Volkswagen's workers, management and political leaders must work together to minimise the impact of job and capacity cuts at
August 31, 2026Headmaster Rajendra Dawadi was in his school in Nepal's Bidur last Wednesday when his accountant entered, shouting: "
August 31, 2026German inflation rose in August on higher energy prices due to the Iran conflict, but the increase was less than expected and core inflation stabilised,
August 31, 2026Swiss police said on Monday that they had arrested a 43-year-old suspect in relation to a deadly shooting at a rave in the town of Aarau at the weekend.
August 31, 2026Iceland needs to find new ways to strengthen its security after voters rejected restarting accession talks with the EU, the country's foreign minister
August 31, 2026Burned out cars. Rubble from flattened buildings strewn along deserted streets.
August 31, 2026Italy's population will shrink by almost 4 million by 2050, undermining the sustainability of its economy and welfare system as the proportion of elderly people increases,
August 31, 2026India must uphold a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan it suspended amid bilateral tensions and must limit work on an hydroelectric plant it is building in the Kashmir
August 31, 2026Police investigate after newborn found with umbilical cord attached, brought to fire station
August 31, 2026Police say a suspect has been arrested after a weekend shooting at a rave in northern Switzerland that left one person dead and five wounded
August 31, 2026Thieves steal $4 million diamond necklace in brazen smash-and-grab heist
August 31, 2026Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is due to set a record as leading Italy's longest-serving administration on September 4.
August 31, 2026In a country famed for political instability, Giorgia Meloni is poised to lead Italy's longest-lasting government since World War Two,
August 31, 2026Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government took office in October 2022 and will become the longest-serving administration in the history of the Italian Republic on September 4
August 31, 2026Indonesian legal experts and activists voiced support on Monday for an Indonesian court ruling voiding legal provisions that made insulting the government a criminal
August 31, 2026Police in Switzerland make arrest after deadly rave shooting
August 30, 2026An election in eastern Germany on Sunday could produce the first far-right state governor in the country’s post-World War II history
August 31, 2026Russia sees NATO activity in the Arctic as a direct security threat, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an article published on Monday, as the alliance
August 31, 2026Authorities in Nepal are warning of potential fresh flooding as water levels rise in the Bhotekoshi River
August 30, 2026Plans in one of Texas’ largest counties to use dozens fewer polling location than previous years is drawing protests from Democrats who say the reductions could create confusion in the November midterm elections
August 31, 2026Ukraine's former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov is seeking U.S. investment for a defence technology fund, he said in an interview with the Financial Times that was published on
August 31, 2026German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sunday Berlin was preparing a response to the suspected drone attack on a Ukrainian cargo plane in Leipzig this month in
August 30, 2026At least eight people died and 18 were missing after a ferry carrying around 270 passengers and crew capsized off North Cyprus on Sunday, leaving survivors clinging to its
August 30, 2026A 22-year-old woman has been killed and five people injured, one seriously, in a shooting overnight at a rave in the Swiss town
August 30, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv has risen to 38, with four people still missing
August 30, 2026Swiss police and media say that a shooting at a rave in the northern Swiss canton of Aargau has killed one person and left five injured
August 30, 2026Ukraine's new defence minister said he would outline a "clear vision" for Kyiv's partners of how his country plans to fight Russia, as the government tries to
August 30, 2026Iceland's voters have rejected a referendum to restart negotiations to join the European Union
August 30, 2026At least eight people have died after a ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off the coast of the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus
August 30, 2026A NATO official said on Sunday Russia is stepping up hybrid acts in Europe, but that at this time the alliance sees no imminent threat of attack.
August 30, 2026‘We like to mingle with people’: The Italian princess who wants tourists to stay in her palace
August 30, 2026Icelanders voted to stay out of the European Union, referendum results showed on Sunday, as they rejected a government push to reopen
August 29, 2026Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has thrown his weight behind a new global defence bank intended to help allies
August 30, 2026Europe's central bankers are leaving an annual getaway with their U.S. counterparts far from reassured that
August 30, 2026Six months after the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran, the direst economic predictions haven't come true
August 30, 2026Finland's President Alexander Stubb said he did not believe Russia would risk an attack against a NATO country, telling Germany's Bild newspaper it would "make no sense" to
August 30, 2026General Motors plans to assemble a heavy-duty pickup at an Ontario plant as part of a tentative deal with a key union that would pump C$1.1 billion ($791.31
August 30, 2026Mutinous soldiers in Niger attacked the airport and the presidency in the capital, Niamey, early on Saturday, triggering hours of gunfire and explosions and briefly knocking
August 29, 2026Voters in Iceland are deciding whether to resume negotiations to join the European Union
August 29, 2026Six months into the Iran war, Iranian Americans remain divided over what comes next
August 29, 2026Tornado and hail hits northern Italian city, injuring dozens of people
August 29, 2026Trump is staking out extreme positions on White House secrecy, legal experts say
August 29, 2026King Haakon VIII of Norway paid homage to his late father as "such a good dad" in his first address to the nation since
August 29, 2026Record 15-time European champion Real Madrid will start the league phase of the Champions League on September 8 when it hosts Inter Milan
August 29, 2026At least 27 people were killed after a Russian drone strike on a Kyiv-area warehouse sparked a detonation, officials said on Saturday, prompting calls by President Volodymyr
August 29, 2026One of the main players in a struggle to agree a restructuring plan for Volkswagen AG, Lower Saxony state Premier Olaf Lies, said there was heavy pressure on all sides to
August 29, 2026President Donald Trump on Friday announced an unprecedented U.S. push to take control of a fifth of Venezuela's vast oil reserves, betting that American companies
August 29, 2026Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial have ended a second day of deliberations without a verdict
August 28, 2026The federal government has agreed to extend the pause on border construction in Big Bend National Park until mid-September
August 29, 2026British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, who has called for ICE checkpoints at supermarkets in the United States, with summary deportation
August 29, 2026American diplomats and at least some of their family members are beginning to return to U.S. embassies in the Middle East
August 29, 2026Nearly 200,000 people were forcibly returned to Haiti in the first eight months of this year, a U.N. official told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on
August 29, 2026Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, is facing backlash from European soccer leaders over a failed World Cup investment plan
August 29, 2026Argentina's booming beef exports to the United States could face a new test after Washington moved to widen tariff-free access for suppliers, potentially increasing
August 29, 2026Spain asked on Friday for help from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) in processing migrants in the North African enclave of Ceuta almost a month after
August 29, 2026Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic has accused a U.N. court of “uncivilized behavior” for denying early release to former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic
August 28, 2026A ransomware group said on Friday it was putting up for auction a trove of data it stole from Berlin state agencies, and city officials
August 28, 2026A federal judge on Friday declined to immediately block U.S.
August 28, 2026Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland by Danish health authorities for decades were split over whether the practice constituted genocide
August 28, 2026Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Friday that he still saw little sign that the surge in energy prices caused by the U.S.-Iran conflict was creating serious longer-term
August 28, 2026Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said on Friday Russia was greatly concerned about the arrests of opposition figures in Armenia, and reiterated that Yerevan would not be able to
August 28, 2026The European Central Bank should embrace blockchain technology to safeguard its role at the heart of the financial system, ECB board member Isabel Schnabel
August 28, 2026An Israeli strike killed a Hamas operative and two of his accomplices in the West Bank on Friday, the military said, in a rare use of deadly air power in the
August 28, 2026Nepal does not need foreign assistance for search-and-rescue operations following the devastating flash flood that swept through several towns on
August 28, 2026The U.S. dollar saw strong gains on Friday, putting it on track for its biggest daily climb in 2-1/2 months after U.S.
August 28, 2026A campaign of forced contraception in Greenland that ran primarily in the 1960s and 1970s violated women's human rights but did not
August 28, 2026The Cambodian government has claimed a milestone in its fight against the scam industry accused of stealing billions of dollars from victims around the world, with officials saying
August 28, 2026A respected drug and mental health institute in the Netherlands is warning about potentially lethal ecstasy pills shaped like U.S. President Donald Trump's head
August 28, 2026President Donald Trump marks an awkward moment in his second White House term as the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran reaches the six-month mark
August 28, 2026Congo government figures show that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to two new health zones in eastern Congo
August 28, 2026Volkswagen's supervisory board is meeting in a week's time to discuss its biggest ever turnaround plan that has pitted management against unions and the state of
August 28, 2026The U.N. refugee agency has scaled back its budget by 16% and lowered its official headcount by around 3,500 as it adapts to new financial constraints at a
August 28, 2026Haakon — who comes to the throne as two major scandals batter his family — struggled for years to accept his status.
August 28, 2026Seven protesters accused of daubing pro-Palestinian graffiti on U.S.
August 28, 2026Serbia says convicted war criminal Mladić to be buried with ‘highest honors’
August 28, 2026Rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap federal funds during hard times.
August 28, 2026Russia's central bank will continue cutting its key rate, lowering it to 13.5% from 14% by the end of this year, Sberbank's chief economist Alexander
August 28, 2026The countries bordering the Baltic Sea plan to establish a joint task force for drone defence that will allow them to react quickly in the face of the growing
August 28, 2026Norway has a new king
August 28, 2026What's in a cheese name?
August 28, 2026Norway's King Harald, a reformer who emerged from the shadow of his well-loved father over more than three decades on the throne, has died aged 89, the royal palace said on
August 28, 2026Commodity trader Radiant World is under scrutiny as counterparties have stopped doing business with it following news that authorities are investigating a report it provided
August 28, 2026After King Harald V’s death, what comes next for Norway’s scandal-prone royals?
August 28, 2026Italian business and consumer confidence rose in August, data showed on Friday, in a positive sign for the prospects of the euro zone's third largest economy.
August 28, 2026Germany's chemical industry saw a sharp improvement in business sentiment in August, with companies turning positive on current conditions for
August 28, 2026In the pre-dawn darkness on an island in the Taiwan Strait, Taiwanese troops earlier this month pulled long, gleaming 105mm shells from
August 28, 2026Officials in Nepal's Rasuwa district have received a notice saying a lake has broken its banks, two days after a flash flood hit the region, Narendra Pariyar, the most
August 28, 2026The rise in French consumer prices accelerated in August, preliminary data from statistics agency INSEE showed on Friday.
August 28, 2026Mette-Marit was 25, an unmarried single mother and a commoner when she met Norway's then Crown Prince Haakon at the Quart music festival in her
August 28, 2026The number of unemployed people in Germany rose slightly less than expected in August, labour office figures showed on Friday.
August 28, 2026Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has unveiled plans for a national dialogue aimed at easing political tensions, which have risen over a bill that
August 28, 2026(This Aug 28 story has been repeated with no changes to text.)
August 28, 2026French growth flatlined in the second quarter, the national statistics agency said on Friday, revising down a preliminary reading and casting doubt on the outlook for the
August 28, 2026Harald V, the sailing king who epitomized a modern Norwegian royalty, dies
August 28, 2026A tiny nordic nation weighs moving closer to Europe under the shadow of Trump
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