The WHO Director-General warned on Friday that the second year of the pandemic could be deadlier than the first and said vaccinating at-risk groups worldwide should be the priority.

China’s first Mars landing follows its launch last month of the main section of what will be a permanent space station and a mission that brought back rocks from the moon late last year.

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The news was welcomed on Twitter by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Karl-Erivan Haub was one of the richest men in the world as head of retail group Tengelmann.

The choice for leader was a race between long-standing MP Jeffrey Donaldson and Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots.

Viral photos of Croatian politicians have been circulating on social media and it's all over a rule of law dispute.

Petr Arenberger has come under criticism for his previously unknown supplementary income.

European diplomats have voiced serious concerns about how the World Health Organization has handled sex abuse allegations involving its own staff during an outbreak of Ebola in Congo.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to push forward with a second referendum on Scottish independence from the UK once the COVID crisis is over.

Barcelona are undefeated this season. But Chelsea can count on the coaching experience of Emma Hayes.

The Supreme Pontiff called on the Italian government to create new opportunities for young people after the population shrank by more than 350,000 last year. But he's not the only religious leader making a case for increased fertility...

With a valid PCR test, performed 72 hours before departure or a rapid self-test, EU, UK, US, Serbian and Israeli residents can visit Greece without quarantine.

All of the country's 17 million mink population were culled last year over risk of spreading a COVID-19 variant.

Teenagers are getting the COVID-19 vaccine in Hungary - the first EU nation to allow it from the age of 16. Children from 12 are getting it in Canada, Israel, UAE and US.

Around 30 EU citizens including Greek, Italian, Bulgarian and Spanish nationals are thought to have been detained in the UK in the past week due to confusion over visa requirements.

The Royal British Legion will recreate the moment of its creation at an event at the Cenotaph. "Since that moment in May 1921, the Legion has been working tirelessly for the rights of the armed forces community in Britain," Royal British Legion spoke...

Beyond issuing statements urging calm, can European diplomacy have an actual impact in defusing the recent surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence?

Azerbaijan denies the accusation from Armenia. France, Russia and the US have urged the two countries, which fought a deadly war last year, to de-escalate.

Fully vaccinated people in the US can stop wearing masks, authorities announced on Thursday. The guidance still calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters.

This week's violence between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers has killed at least 103 Palestinians, including 27 children, and wounded 530 others.

Protesters in Glasgow cheered as two men detained by immigration officials were released on Thursday after an hours-long standoff between demonstrations and police officers.

The move comes days after Viktor Medvedchuk was charged with treason, with the Opposition Platform - For Life party chairman denying the allegations against him.

Synagogues have been attacked and Israeli flags burned in protests in Germany.

Pharmaceutical companies received millions from European taxpayers to help them develop vaccines. Now they must turn that knowledge over to the developing world.

Andrii Derkach was one of several Ukrainian politicians promoted by a network of fake Facebook accounts booted off the social media platform last month.

A 40-page study alleges that climate change misinformation is being systemically spread by Facebook. The social media giant denies the claims.

Greek politicians have been asked whether they are opening too early. They argue that 2020 is not 2021.

According to Viasna, the musician had blocked traffic by waving a red and white flag and encouraged demonstrators to clap their hands.

At least 126 people have been killed, including 31 children and 20 women in Gaza so far; in Israel, seven people have been killed, including a 6-year-old boy and a soldier.

Nepal has granted a record 408 permits to climbers who want to scale the 8,849-metre mountain this spring.

The German government has adopted a new ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 'net zero' by 2045, five years earlier than initially planned.

Chelsea and City fans will able to buy tickets to attend the final in person as UEFA releases 6,000 seats to each club.

Several German states are already preparing to reopen to domestic tourists. Four trial projects in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein have already been welcoming them back.

The holy day marking the end of Ramadan began in muted fashion on Thursday against the backdrop of COVID-19 and the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Both Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna used mRNA technology for their COVID-19 jabs.

Most countries were "too slow" in their response to COVID-19, an independent panel commissioned reviewing the handling of the pandemic has found.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and the first African to serve as the WTO Director-General, gives her insight into multilateralism, global order and how sectors have been impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Danish lawmakers have agreed to set up a task force to look into a 1990 ferry fire that killed 159 people, one of Scandinavia's worst peacetime maritime disasters.

A jury convicted Derek Chauvin, 45, of second and third degree murder and manslaughter on 20 April in George Floyd's death.

Official statistics show that foreign-born citizens elderly citizens in Sweden and Norway are much less likely to have received a COVID-19 vaccine.

The Bosnian Serb leader was convicted of war crimes over the Srebrenica genocide and the siege of Sarajevo.

Egyptian authorities have impounded a massive cargo vessel that blocked the Suez Canal last month amid a financial dispute with its owner, the canal chief said.

Both the aircraft manufacturer and the airline have stated that they will appeal the decision.

The head of La République En Marche! has criticised one of its own candidates, Sara Zemmahi, after she was pictured wearing a headscarf in a campaign poster.

Many local residents have left candles, flowers and toys at a makeshift memorial set up outside the school gates after Tuesday's horrific incident.

India confirmed 4,205 more coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, a daily record for the country.

Scores of dead bodies have been found floating down the Ganges River in eastern India amid a ferocious surge in coronavirus infections in the country.

Ten people, including a priest and a mother of eight children, were killed at the height of 'the Troubles' in 1971.

China's ruling Communist Party (CPC) has been using fake fans to boost profiles on Twitter, a study has found.