World / Europe

Stockholm: A Danish court extended yesterday for another month the detention of the daughter of Choi Soon-Sil, the woman at the centre of...

Kiev: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said yesterday he has had two "very effective" conversations with US counterpart Donald Trump and was confident of...

Lisbon: Portuguese police have detained former CIA agent Sabrina de Sousa and are preparing her extradition to Italy, where she has been convicted...

PARIS: More and more people want to join France's unpredictable presidential race — hopefuls who might never win but could garner enough votes...

BUCHAREST: Romania’s governing coalition proposed a new justice minister on Wednesday as part of a cabinet reshuffle it hopes will draw a line...

MOSCOW: The Russian government summoned energy companies last week to give it advance notice about developments that could influence public opinion in the...

Paris:  French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron received a boost Wednesday after veteran centrist Francois Bayrou backed him and offered a pact to prevent...

Nicosia: A planned meeting between rival Cypriot leaders scheduled for Thursday has been called off as a war of words over a nationalist...

Kiev: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday he has had two "very effective" conversations with US counterpart Donald Trump and was confident of...

Berlin: A Berlin court on Wednesday began hearing a case against a former Iraqi soldier charged with war crimes after he allegedly posed...

Paris: A senior Socialist minister said yesterday he might back centrist Emmanuel Macron in France’s presidential election, a blow to his party’s official...

KIEV: A Ukrainian lawmaker who proposed an alternative plan for peace with Russian-backed separatists to U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration told Reuters on...

Baku: Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev yesterday appointed his glamorous wife as first vice-president, the latest move seen as tightening the family's iron grip...

Rome: Hundreds of taxi drivers protested in Rome yesterday as a strike over delays to Italian legislation regulating Uber and car-hire services entered...

Paris: French President Francois Hollande called yesterday on Britain to "accept its responsibility" to take in stranded under-age migrants stuck in France who...

Vienna: An Austrian court approved yesterday the extradition of Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash (pictured) to the United States in a bribery case, overturning...

Brussels: Germany and France want the European Union to weaken its human rights safeguards to allow for deportation of asylum seekers before their...

Vienna: Austria’s coalition government approved new employment rules yesterday to ensure workers already in the country are given priority for new jobs over...