With European sanctions and a possible snap election looming in 2021, Turkey's president says his government is putting the finishing touches on economic and democratic reforms

Health authorities in Florida have reported finding evidence of a case of a newer, apparently more contagious strain of coronavirus which was first seen in England.

There wasn't much time to welcome 2021 in hospitals in Rome, where doctors and nurses continue to care for patients with serious cases of COVID-19.

The presidency is now handed over to Portugal for the next six months.

Central Croatia continued to experience tremors on Thursday morning, as survivors tried to pick up the pieces from Tuesday's deadly earthquake.

COVID-19 submerged Europe's hospitals, tanked the economy, and forced us to avoid other people. One year since it was first reported in Wuhan, here's how the virus changed life in Europe.

Here we compare the coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer/BioNtech, Moderna and Oxford/AstraZeneca.

Krakow has become the first city in Poland to finance an LGBT support shelter.

More ambulance workers than ever are treating COVID-19 patients in England as a new variant of the virus spreads rapidly

EU-based fleets catch up to eight times as many fish in UK waters as British fishermen do in EU waters, according to UK government data. Which is why Brexit made sense for so many British seaside towns.

Viral misinformation surged online in 2020. Here are ten of Euronews' best debunks from the last 12 months.

From talk of flattening the curve to doomscrolling: how the coronavirus pandemic hijacked our vocabulary.

No-one could escape COVID-19 in 2020, but the pandemic was not the only event to have rocked the world in this year.

The European Commission has stated that any decision on this would need the support of a unanimous vote in the European Parliament.

Happy 2021 from all of us at Euronews. Here's how the turning of the year went down across the globe.

Penalties for breaking the rules will be €135 for a first offence and can go up to €3,750 in the event of a repeat offence, the country's Interior Ministry has said.

The first case was confirmed in a man in his 20s in Colorado. He is not believed to have travelled recently.

Police went to Anthony Warner's house after the accusation but he did not answer the door. On Wednesday, the Nashville police chief admitted: "Hindsight is 20/20."

The homeless, including those left on the streets as a result of the COVID-19 slowdown, are helping to repopulate Spain's rural communities.

In the past, Barna Tanczos has called for the culling of 4,000 bears and warned against turning Romania into "the zoo of Europe".

Russia says it has expanded the number of British nationals barred from entering the country in response to "unacceptable and unfounded'' UK sanctions over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country, has been engulfed in civil war since 2014.

Local police say it has been difficult to search for people on the ground due to a danger of further landslides, so most has been conducted by air.

The European Union and China have tentatively agreed on a business investment deal after seven years of discussions. But concerns about the country's human rights record may stand in the way of it being signed off.

The man, in his 20s, is currently in isolation in Denver. Authorities say he has no travel history.

The UK has ordered 100 million doses from AstraZeneca, which can vaccinate 50 million people.

The US president said relief checks for millions of Americans should be increased - but Republicans blocked such a vote in the Senate.

US President-elect Joe Biden said that at the current pace, it would take years to vaccinate Americans.

American Airlines flew a Boeing 737 Max with paying passengers from Miami to New York on Tuesday, the plane’s first commercial flight in US skies since it was grounded after two deadly crashes.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the construction was abandoned and its works of art severely damaged by vandalism.

Twelve species new to science were discovered deep in the Atlantic after five years of study by the ATLAS Project.

The move comes after the EU sanctioned Russian military intelligence officials in October, accusing them of hacking Chancellor Angela Merkel’s emails in 2015.

White caviar, which comes from the rare albino sturgeon, is being produced in Austria and shipped all over the world ahead of New Year's Eve.

Local volunteers from Britain's Polish community tried to help the drivers who were stuck in a traffic jam in Dover for Christmas.

The majority of the UK's fruit and vegetables are imported from Europe.

The vote on Tuesday marked the final hurdle in a long-standing campaign to see abortion legalised in the homeland of Pope Francis.

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Its companion is thought to have died after getting caught in a live overhead line, police said.

Reporters were caught up in the mass arrests that followed the disputed reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus

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New restrictions brought in by the Polish government are in place for three weeks, and they include a ban on moving around on New Year's Eve.

The 1,700 refugees were selected because of their willingness to be moved to the island, which the Bangladeshi government said could accommodate 100,000 people.

The registry, which will be shared with the EU, will not be made public and will be "done with the utmost respect for data protection," the country's health minister said.

If the Senate votes along a similar line to the House, this could mark the first veto override of Donald Trump's presidency.

Investigators are still trying to find a motive for the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville, Tennessee.

The prominent activist, Loujain al-Hathloul, who campaigned to end Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison.

The three soldiers' armoured vehicle was hit by an explosive device.

They were built centuries ago to serve food and wine safely during the plague. Now, amid COVID-19, they are being put to use again.

It's their way of saying "on your bike, 2020!"

Authorities detained the suspects on Sunday after carrying out searches in Kumanovo and Skopje. They also seized a large number of weapons.