The pact will enable Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines and will see the country scrap its Attack Class Submarine Programme with France in favour of a deal with the UK. Paris has reacted angrily.

The French leader described the killing is a "major success" in the fight against terrorist groups in the Sahel.

Travelling throughout Europe only by train has its difficulties, but the EU and its members are highlighting the environmental virtues of this form of transport with the 'Connecting Europe Express', a train that is currently crisscrossing the contine...

"We attacked France, we targeted the population but it was nothing personal," the only surviving attacker told a Paris courtroom.

Bulgaria already held parliamentary elections in April and July this year, but the country's largest three parties failed to produce a working coalition government.

Salih Mustafa has been accused of murder and torture during Kosovo’s 1998-99 war for independence from Serbia.

Ukraine's Security Service has launched a terror investigation after a man and a woman were killed in an explosion in Dnipro.

Serbia kicked off Unity Day with a display of military power and calls for all Serbs in the Balkans to unite under one flag.

Maria Soledad Iparraguirre Guenechea was found guilty of "crimes against the Crown" and sentenced to an additional 15 years in prison.

The man had sold confidential information about the Swedish truckmaker Scania to a Russian diplomat.

Pope Frances refused to accept the resignation of the Archbishop of Hamburg, who offered his resignation in March after reported mishandling of sexual abuse cases.

Scientists, hoping to find new ways to prevent urine from polluting the earth, have managed to potty train cows in two weeks.

The 29-year-old journalist was fatally shot while observing riots and police clashes near the Irish border in April 2019.

"The money found came from senior leaders of the previous government, such as Amrullah Saleh" according to the statement of the Afghan Central Bank.

The leader of the ruling party says Poland's future is in the European Union, but that the country wants to remain "sovereign".

Germany has more Afghans than any other country in Europe.

Spain’s prime minister and Catalonia's leader met on Wednesday to restart negotiations hoping to find a solution to the ongoing political crisis over separatist demands.

Dominic Raab faced strong criticism last month for delaying his return from a holiday in Greece as the Taliban took over Afghanistan. He is replaced by ex-trade minister Liz Truss.

Voters will decide on September 26 whether to allow terminations within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy.

Since the boy's release from hospital, his paternal family in Italy and his maternal family in Israel have been fighting over his custody.

The comments came as Merkel was in the Western Balkans meeting heads of government from Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.

According to the UN, four million Afghans are facing “a food emergency”.

As new heavy rainfall threatened the area Wednesday, the emergency service for the Gard region said rescuers were searching for at least one person reported missing on Tuesday evening.

US transport safety authorities are investigating Tesla after a series of high-profile crashes involving self-driving cars and emergency services vehicles.

Some 2.7 healthcare and emergency workers had until September 15 to get vaccinated against COVID-19, or face being suspended from their jobs.

The Czech Republic has 54.6% of its population fully vaccinated, below the EU average of 60.3%.

After the #MeToo movement swept China, authorities responded with legal changes that activists and legal experts say have not yet led to real change on the ground.

The Chinese ambassador was due to attend a reception in the House of Commons organised by a cross-party parliamentary group on China.

It wasn't clear if the prosecutor's removal would have any impact on the case, or if he was officially removed before he made the request to the judge to charge the prime minister.

Police violence and racism: Macron outlines French plan for greater transparency over abuses

The booster shots, which will be rolled out beginning next week, were approved a day after the government also backed plans to offer one vaccine dose to 12-15 year olds.

Frans Timmermans said the costs of not transitioning economies to renewable energies are not measured in economic terms, but in 'human terms'.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus appealed again for drug companies to prioritise the UN-backed COVAX initiative designed to share vaccines globally.

The star item is a brick from Dismaland, the British artist's 2015 parody of Disney theme parks which was dismantled after its creation.

Moscow has been increasing the pressure on big tech companies, accusing them of not properly moderating their content ahead of this month's parliamentary elections.

The pope met visited a Roma settlement where he urged greater integration with Slovak society, the day after atoning for Christian complicity in the Holocaust.

Fifteen years after the case was first lodged, during which the founder died, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled Russian courts had not had a strong enough case to ban radical anti-Putin group the National Bolshevik Party.

Police are appealing for information after a foil balloon caused a power outage around the eastern city of Dresden.

Only 17% of people in the Faroe Islands consume whale or dolphin meat - so why are thousands of animals still dying?

PM Pedro Sánchez said that his government intends to scrap a 7% tax on power generation, among other measures.

The Kremlin has stated that Putin has tested negative for the virus but will be self-isolating for a "certain period".

The crackdown in Belarus may have stopped public dissent, but as these hackers suggest, it could be just driving it underground.

Germany's justice ministry said it had so far paid out nearly €860,000 in 249 cases.

"While lying prone on the snowy ground with his hands cuffed behind his back, officers had fired bullets either side of his head to get him to reveal information on the location of certain smuggled merchandise."

Chemours, a spin-off from DuPont - which was featured in the Hollywood film Dark Waters - is being sued in the EU Court of Justice.

Haim Geron, a former senior official at Israel’s ministry of communications, and his wife were killed in the crash on Monday.

Timothy Garton Ash had accused Orban of having his cake and eating it in terms of Hungary's relationship with the EU.

Nearly 480,000 flights took last month in the EU, compared to 696,000 in August 2019.

The government says the "revised timetable will give businesses more time to adjust to new processes". Its critics argue post-Brexit red tape issues need resolving.

Germans are the most pessimistic of a dozen EU countries surveyed, with 52% seeing their nation as a declining power.