Dominic, a young Swedish player, represented his country in this year's Football for Friendship programme.

"It is very important to come to parades like this, not only to party... but also to protest for our rights.”

Hong Kong had been the last place on Chinese soil where the June 4, 1989, event was publicly commemorated.

Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of plastic pollute the Mediterranean every year. France produces a lot of the region's plastic waste and recycles less than its neighbours. In Marseille, locals are not waiting for the government to make a change, they...

President Joe Biden has announced plans for the US to share an initial 25 million COVID-19 vaccine doses with the world.

Three people have reportedly been killed and at least 16 injured after an explosion at a crowded restaurant in Baghdad, Iraq.

Greece is facing questions over its reported use of sound cannons at the border to deter asylum seekers seeking to enter the country.

The Norwegian government summoned the US embassy over a bombshell report accusing America of having spied on allies with Denmark's assistance.

Malaysian police have arrested French conspiracy theorist Rémy Daillet-Wiedemann, who was wanted over the kidnapping of a young girl in April.

Portuguese officials say they 'cannot understand' the 'logic' of the UK's decision to downgrade the country from 'green' to its 'amber' list of destinations related to COVID-19.

French interior minister Gérald Darmanin said a crisis cell had been opened after the Air France flight which was coming from Chad was evacuated.

Faced with a long wait for a COVID vaccine, some younger Russians living in Finland have been travelling over the border for the Sputnik V jab.

Software failure is being blamed for the breakdown which put emergency phone numbers out of action and is suspected of causing at least three deaths.

Another victim of the pandemic last year, France's festival of dance is now back - and bursting with energy.

More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, the EU’s latest Eurobarometer survey found the majority of Europeans believe the health benefits of COVID restrictions outweigh the economic damage they have caused.

Schools in the UK are receiving free kits to monitor pollution levels, in a drive to clean up the air around schools.

A British court has ruled that the Home Office's decision to house asylum seekers and migrants in "squalid" barracks in Folkestone, Kent, was unlawful.

Denmark passes law to open asylum centres outside of Europe for migrant applicants.

In the video aired on Belarus state TV, regime critic Roman Protasevich claimed opposition protests were pointless and that he had been set up.

Police in North Macedonia say they have "suppressed" a criminal ring that was smuggling Middle Eastern migrants into the country from Greece.

Authorities suspect the fire may have been deliberately caused by arsonists.

Organisers revealed that thousands of volunteers who were expected to take part in the Olympic Games in Tokyo resigned in recent months.

European diplomats have expressed hope an agreement could soon be reached for Iran to comply with the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal.

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Centrist Yair Lapid and ultranationalist Naftali Bennett said they reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, which also includes a small Islamist party.

Flights were suspended on Tuesday and Wednesday amid escalating tensions between Russia and the West after Belarus diverted a passenger jet to arrest a dissident journalist.

Oulu won with a project promising “cultural climate change”, focussing on the participatory nature of art and culture.

Athens has faced criticism for not including asylum-seekers earlier in its vaccination campaign.

Parents of children allegedly killed by police or the local mafia have been using street art to campaign for justice and warn other youngsters to steer clear of crime.

The pandemic is not just a public health crisis. It is also a job crisis that has pushed millions of workers into poverty, a new report warns.

A date had been set for a meeting between Kosovo’s new prime minister, Albin Kurti, and Serbian President Aleksander Vucic.

Iranian officials offered no cause for the incident, which comes after a series of mysterious explosions targeting ships in the region since 2019.

Isaac Herzog has been elected as the new President of Israel, as opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu try to reach a last-ditch agreement on a new coalition government.

"It has become evident that greater public health risks are currently associated with B.1.617.2, while lower rates of transmission of other lineages have been observed," the WHO said on Tuesday.

Efforts to tow the container vessel carrying nitric acid and other chemicals out to sea have failed, threatening marine life and Sri Lanka's famed beaches.

The US President said he had "come to fill the silence" about one of the nation’s darkest — and long suppressed — moments of racial violence.

Opponents of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are racing against time to finalise a coalition government ahead of a midnight deadline on Wednesday.

A Hong Kong museum commemorating the 1989 killings in China’s Tiananmen Square was shut after three days, as Chinese authorities continue to tighten control on the city.

Millions of tons of conventional and chemical munitions have been dumped into the sea after the 20th century world wars. As the shells being to rust, their deadly contents start entering the seawater - and marine food webs.

China's Sinovac coronavirus vaccine "meets international standards for safety, efficacy and manufacturing," the UN health body said on Tuesday.

“The fishmeal and fish oil industry, and all governments and companies supporting them, are basically robbing local populations of livelihoods and food," said Dr Ibrahimé Cissé, senior campaigner at Greenpeace Africa.

The Catholic Church is changing its laws to explicitly criminalise sexual abuse of adults by priests, and to include laypeople who hold church office in sanctions for similar crimes.

They fled war and poverty, now they're bringing a taste of home to Italy: Meet the female refugees carving out a new career in the kitchen.

The coronavirus variants widely known by the name of the country in which they were first discovered - such as the Indian, Brazilian or British variants - have been renamed by the WHO.

Carrying just her passport, money and a few essentials in her handbag, Arina Malinovskaya fled for the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

The leader of a movement seeking independence from Morocco has testified in a Spanish investigation into allegations against him of torture and genocide. The court's decision to keep him free is likely to infuriate Rabat.

Despite the successful vaccination campaign in the UK, there are fears a third wave of COVID-19 may have already begun.

The move follows Minsk's intervention last month forcing a Ryanair flight to land in Belarus to arrest dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.

Peru more than doubled its official COVID-19 death toll on Monday, after the government updated the figures.

Air pollution in North Macedonia is said to kill hundreds of people a year. The country is trying to conform to EU standards when it comes to legislation to minimise pollution, but the quality of air in the capital is still a major problem.