Investigators are looking into whether political leaders - among them Olaf Scholz - pressured Hamburg's municipal tax office into waiving tens of millions of euros in tax fees.

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The 24-year-old Hadi Matar is accused of stabbing Rushdie, the famed author of Midnight's Children, at a conference Friday in nearby Chautauqua.

In a statement following a monetary policy committee meeting, the country's national bank said it decided to reduce the policy rate from 14% to 13%.

The two leaders met with the Ukrainian president in the western city of Lviv in an attempt to find a way to end the war, but little progress has been reported.

Seattle-based Starbucks was one of the most visible of the wave of foreign companies that pulled out of Russia in response to Russia's war in Ukraine. Local entrepreneurs now reopened the closed stores under a new name.

The group of 11 men were sentenced to life for gang-raping a pregnant woman in 2002 during religious turmoil in the state of Gujarat.

Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo met in Brussels for another EU-mediated attempt to resolve lingering issues between the two wartime rivalling states that have spiked tensions in the Balkans.

An iconic lighthouse in the northern German city's port is in danger of collapsing.

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Two members of the group "Ultima Generazione", stuck themselves to a famous statue in the Vatican Museum.

In some areas of Italy, winds reached the speed of up to 120 km/h.

The Russian missile strike on Wednesday night killed at least seven people and injured 20 others.

The annual World Robot Conference opened in Beijing on Thursday with barista robots and dancing dog robots, among other things

It was for international correspondent Anelise Borges' on-the-ground coverage of the Afghanistan crisis following the Taliban's takeover of the country.

Ukrainian soldiers are receiving urban combat training at military bases in England as part of a programme to train 10,000 recruits, many of whom have little military experience.

The blockage occurred at a time when ships are already facing record low water levels on the river amid a drought.

The leaked video shows the prime minister at a private party with friends, singing to Finnish pop hits and dancing - but there's also a cocaine reference heard in the background.

Visiting Ukraine, the Turkish and UN leaders say an attack on the Russian-occupied nuclear plant risks "suicide" and a "new Chernobyl", as Moscow rejects an IAEA mission: today's latest updates.

Winds of up to 224 kilometres per hour were recorded in some areas of the Mediterranean island.

Beijing has said it wants to take relations with Moscow "to a higher level", despite international condemnation over the war in Ukraine.

On 11 August, two paddleboarders had a unique encounter with 12 whales on Argentina's Atlantic coast.

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Jaroslav Nad', Slovakia's defence minister, wants to hand over the country's MIG-29 fleet in the autumn for €300 million.

Tens of thousands of rail workers are staging more strikes from Thursday, in the biggest industrial action for three decades.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack which happened during evening prayers on Thursday.

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Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti met in Brussels on Thursday, in talks facilitated by the EU.

The city's mayor previously said he would offer dinner to anyone who could locate the duo for making a "mockery" of his city.

Turkey and Israel agreed to restore full diplomatic relations on Wednesday, as ties gradually improve after more than a decade of friction.

The alleged bribery, totaling around €370,000, is believed to be linked to sponsorship of the games, and products related to the Olympics

Three firefighters were injured on Wednesday north of Valencia city, the day after a train driver took evasive action to avoid the flames. 10 passengers were hurt in the panic.

Vehicles and commuters struggle to make their way through flooded streets in Myanmar's Yangon.

A small boy surprised audiences at the Pope's weekly audience.

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Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison over her Twitter activity, the longest sentence to be handed down to an activist, according to human rights groups.

Near Pavlohrad in central east Ukraine, 4,000 workers are employed at the so-called "Heroes of the Cosmos" mine, of whom 800 have been mobilised into the Ukrainian army.

Military experts analyse blasts at key Russian sites in annexed Crimea, Kyiv vows to take down Putin's flagship bridge, and life for Ukrainian nuclear plant workers "under the barrels of Russian guns": today's key updates.

12-year-old Honduran boy takes on barber job to help family

Palestinians gather during a protest at the northern Gaza Strip's Falluja cemetery in Jabalia.

ICE Industrial Services, a company in the Czech Republic, is hoping that it can help renew the damaged infrastructure in Ukraine by building homes using its 3D printing technology.

According to critics, the book says that no one loves children who are conceived via IVF.

"For us Germans, in particular, any relativisation of the singularity of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable," said Scholz.

Much of southern France is on "orange" alert for more bad weather after thunderstorms struck overnight, while Paris was lashed by heavy rain on Tuesday.

It's such a problem that some Facebook users don't even bother hiding their intentions: one profile was called 'I sell guns' in Kurdish.

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Sixteen people were killed and dozens more injured during two days of terror in 2017.

Hambullah Mohib, a senior aide to Afghanistan's Former President, Ashraf Ghani speaks to Euronews International Correspondent Anelise Borges and relives the fall of Kabul one year on.

Syria's government had already received Ukrainian grain taken from Russian-occupied territory amid Moscow’s war on Kyiv even before this new shipment, brokered under a UN deal, arrived.

The Tesla boss said on Tuesday in a tweet that he was buying the English Premier League side - but it's all just a joke.