World / Europe

London: A surge in COVID-19 cases in Europe risks becoming a deadly double epidemic of flu and coronavirus infections, EU health officials warned...

Britain is planning to host clinical trials where volunteers are deliberately infected with the new coronavirus to test the effectiveness of vaccine candidates,...

Paris: French judges will soon have the option of requiring electronic tracking ankle bracelets for domestic violence offenders, the government said Thursday, as...

LONDON: England and Wales launch a COVID-19 smartphone app on Thursday, allowing users to trace contacts, check the local level of risk and...

BARCELONA - Weather disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic have simultaneously hit tens of millions of people worldwide this year, making them more vulnerable...

PARIS - France's health minister unveiled a map of coronavirus "danger zones" around the country on Wednesday and gave the hardest-hit local authorities,...

Milan - Italian Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora said Wednesday that plans to gradually reopen stadiums in Italy were set to be approved. "Tomorrow...

ZURICH - Switzerland has quarantined the entire undergraduate body of one of its premier hospitality management schools just days after their return from...

WARSAW - Poles were left shaken and stirred by news that a suspected British agent called James Bond was on Her Majesty's secret...

BRUSSELS - Brussels is close to wrapping up preliminary talks with U.S. vaccine maker Novavax for its potential COVID-19 shot, an EU source...

BRUSSELS: Belgium is ending a requirement to wear masks outdoors and reducing the time people have to self-isolate, in a slight easing of...

HELSINKI: Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country’s main international airport in a four-month trial of an alternative testing method that...

Berlin: German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas quarantined himself on Wednesday after one of his security staff tested positive for coronavirus, a ministry spokeswoman...

Stockholm: Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg said Wednesday the foundation set up in her name would donate 150,000 euros ($175,000) to charities working...

Brussels: The European Commission launched an effort Wednesday to rally sceptical member states around a plan to better share responsibility for settling refugees...

Stockholm: Next month's international friendly between Sweden and Russia will be played in Moscow and not Stockholm as planned after the Swedish government...

PARIS: Paris police briefly evacuated the Eiffel Tower and blockaded the surrounding area Wednesday after a phone-in bomb threat. All tourists inside the...

GENEVA: For all the recent talk of global warming, climate historians hunting for past temperature extremes have unearthed what the U.N. weather agency...