World / Europe

MOSCOW - The mayor of Moscow urged businesses on Friday to get more people to work from home as Russia's daily tally of...

LONDON - Facebook Inc on Thursday said it had dismantled three networks of fake accounts that could be used by Russia's intelligence services...

FRANKFURT - Pfizer's German development partner BioNTech on Thursday joined other leading COVID-19 vaccine developers in ruling out participation in British plans to...

The U.K. reported the highest number of new coronavirus cases in a single day since the start of the pandemic, breaking a record...

Paris - A Paris court on Thursday convicted 10 people, including seven former staff of French luxury house Hermes, for making and selling...

ABOARD 'ARCTIC SUNRISE': Like many of her generation, Mya-Rose Craig feels strongly that adults have failed to take the urgent action needed to...

KYIV, Ukraine: Over 360 more people have been detained in Belarus during protests against the country's authoritarian president, who was unexpectedly sworn into...

LONDON: British finance minister Rishi Sunak announced a new jobs support scheme on Thursday that would help firms employ people on shorter hours,...

MADRID: Spain's Madrid region on Wednesday requested urgent help to hire hundreds of foreign doctors and reinforce police as they registered 1,290 new...

Minsk: Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday responded defiantly to the European Union and the United States which refused to recognise his inauguration...

LONDON: Britain’s top treasury official plans to announce a new program to help workers hurt by the coronavirus pandemic Thursday, responding to pressure...

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...