Discipline and determination result in another great day for Japan at the Judo World Championships in the Hungarian capital Budapest.

The CEOs of six airlines argued that "with world-leading vaccination programmes in both the UK and US, there is a clear opportunity to safely open up travel between these two low-risk countries".

The operation to seize cryptocurrency paid to the Russia-based hacker group is the first of its kind to be undertaken by a specialised ransomware task force created by the Biden administration Justice Department.

Australian police said criminal gangs thought the encrypted app called ANOM was safe from snooping when, in fact, authorities for months had been monitoring millions of messages about drug smuggling, money laundering and even planned killings.

Riad Salameh, who has been at the helm of the Banque du Liban for close to 30 years and is now at the centre of the country's financial crisis, is being investigated by both Swiss and French authorities.

Trade unions say plans to increase the women's retirement age in Switzerland will deepen inequalities in the country, where women earn on average 20 percent less than men.

It raises questions about whether the agency should have had its budget and responsibilities expanded to such an extent.

"The honest truth is the best way for us to get our freedoms back... is for everybody to come forward and get the jab."

“There is no justifiable economic need to continue to break our promise to the world’s most marginalised people."

"We are with the Belarusians who are fighting for freedom, fighting for the rule of law, fighting for democracy,"

Stefan Yanev, a close ally of President Rumen Radev, is currently serving as Bulgaria's interim prime minister until next month's elections.

Kent County Council has given an ultimatum of June 17 before it pushes for judicial review, saying its services dealing with lone migrants have reached "breaking point".

Artin was 18-months-old when he and four family members died crossing the English Channel, police say.

Denmark approved amendments to the legislation on Thursday - so will changes take effect straight away? What has been the response?

"While it's true that an intellectual property waiver alone won’t fix shortages, it will be a crucial first step in ramping up the dispensation of vaccines."

More than 24,000 plaintiffs in 141 different countries have sued the Biden administration over their 'Diversity Visa' applications.

Google said it had agreed on changes to improve its online ad market after being fined by France's competition watchdog.

A Dutch court is due to start hearing evidence in the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over war-torn Ukraine in 2014.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party will have to rely on votes from its allies in the Workers Party and Green Party, but together they were expected to capture between 265 and 292 seats in the 500-seat chamber.

Two express trains collided in southern Pakistan early Monday. According to railway officials, about 1,100 passengers were on board the two trains.

Israeli police arrested 23-year-old Muna al-Kurd who has led protests against attempts by Jewish settlers to evict Palestinian families from their homes. She was later released.

Pope Francis expressed his pain over the discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous students.

It comes as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact Peru where it has exacerbated inequalities.

Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born on Friday, June 4 in Santa Barbara, California.

A thick layer of slime has engulfed boats moored in the Sea of Marmara, to the south of Istanbul. Warm water temperatures and industrial waste have been blamed for this record build up of algae

The Fudan University campus is being built with a €1.3 billion loan from China despite local opposition.

In a wide-ranging interview with Euronews, EU envoy Miroslav Lajcak also said that it is up to the states of the Western Balkans to prove that they will be functioning and effective members of the European family.

At least 11 people were killed, including three children, after a minivan was hit by a roadside bomb in northwest Afghanistan, according to an Afghan official.

Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU won 37%.1 of the vote, final results showed, in regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt seen as a last test before the national election in September.

The building was put up on land belonging to a Bosniac Muslim woman without her permission, and authorities spent years ignoring her request to remove it

Only a small number of veterans were able to attend due to COVID-19 restrictions.

At least 138 people died in Burkina Faso in the deadliest attack in the country for years.

Officially the reason for the closure since December is COVID-19 - but many suspect Lukashenko of using the pandemic as a pretext for clamping down on the protest movement against his rule.

A federal judge overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, saying it violated people's right to bear arms.

An exhibition entitled "They're Here to Stay: A Decade of Remarkable Acquisitions and Their Stories," opened virtually in February.

"Who exploits them and who benefits from it? It's here in Europe."

After much bureaucratic delay, two million square meters in the west part of the city are to be restored to their former glory.

Veterans of the Normandy landings are gathering on the eve of the anniversary of D-Day, when the Allies landed in France to fight Nazi Germany.

Up to three billion plastic pellets have already been released into the sea from the vessel.

Committing to the pilgrim's path has for centuries been a source of renewal for those willing to put their lives on hold and seek spiritual healing.

The key stories of the week, captured by photographers around the world.

The tourists had planned to sell the contraband on the internet.

G7 finance ministers said they came to an agreement on global tax reform, committing to a corporate tax rate of "at least 15%".

Many poor neighbourhoods aren't properly connected to Brazil's energy grid, making electricity hard to access and expensive to connect to.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo hundreds of children are still missing after being separated from families fleeing a volcano eruption

Mladic is appealing his 2017 conviction for war crimes during the conflict that tore through Bosnia in the 1990s.

Putin also criticised European, U.S. criticism of police crackdown on protesters in Russia and Belarus as hypocritical.

Moldova's new president, Maia Sandu, wants to move her country closer to the EU and away from Russia. Polls suggest that at least two thirds of Moldovans agree with her.

It follows Minsk's move to divert a Ryanair passenger plane and arrest dissident journalist Roman Protasevich last month.

The controversial project aims to deliver Russian gas to Germany.