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Sat, 03 Jul 2021 10:05:02 +0200
Ukrainian soldiers made to march in high heels during military parade
Ukraine's defence ministry sparked uproar after it published photos of the women marching on its Facebook page.

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 09:29:52 +0200
European nations scramble to vaccinate citizens as Delta variant cases surge
Across Europe, restrictions are being lifted and life is going back to normal.

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 09:17:56 +0200
UN warns of escalating famine in Ethiopia with 1.8m at risk
The UN says the conflict over Tigray in Ethiopia is escalating a humanitarian crisis with 1.8m people at risk of famine

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 21:46:47 +0200
Death toll from Northwest heat wave expected to keep rising
Hundreds of deaths were being investigated as heat related in Oregon, Washington state and British Columbia. The dangerous heat began June 25 and only began to subside in some areas on Tuesday.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:13:12 +0200
France probes claims that retailers used forced Uyghur labour
France is investigating claims that global retailers, including Uniqlo and the makers of Skechers shoes and Zara clothes, rely on forced labour of minorities in China.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 19:29:00 +0200
Aggressive third wave of COVID-19 surges across Africa where most are unvaccinated
New cases, hospitalisations and deaths have been increasing as the more transmissible variant spreads.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 19:05:13 +0200
Swedish teenager arrested after police officer shot dead in Gothenberg
It is the first time an active police officer has been shot dead in Sweden in 14 years.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 18:43:47 +0200
Albanian government official, police officers arrested in major drug trafficking probe
Thirty-eight Albanian nationals including a prosecutor, a government department head and three senior police officers have been arrested for drug trafficking, corruption, abuse of post and money laundering.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 18:30:20 +0200
German Catholics demand radical changes for a more inclusive church
On the back of resounding paedophilia scandals, the German Catholic church is going through a revolution that is unprecedented in Europe. This revolution started in Cologne in Germany. People concerned there give their insight into how things are unf...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:44:18 +0200
Belarusian opposition Twitter accounts suspended 'in error'
Twitter accounts claiming to be "Belarusian People's Embassies" have been mistakenly suspended by the social network.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 16:07:48 +0200
Assa Traoré, sister of black man who died while in custody in France, acquitted of defamation
The sister of a black French man who died in police custody in 2016, has been acquitted of defamation charges brought against her by police officers. Assa Traoré publicly named three policemen, accusing them of having crushed Adama Traore to death.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:41:51 +0200
US hands Bagram Airfield to Afghans after nearly 20 years
The US military left Bagram Airfield and handed it over to the Afghan National Security and Defence Force after nearly 20 years.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:21:58 +0200
Northern Ireland: Murder charges dropped against British soldiers over 1972 killings
Prosecutors decided there was little chance of convictions in two cases where unarmed civilians were killed by the army during Northern Ireland's sectarian conflict.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:11:13 +0200
Viktor Orbán hits back at European leaders over controversial LGBT law
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused European leaders of acting like "colonialists" in their criticism of a controversial new law banning the portrayal of homosexuality.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:48:32 +0200
Chris Whitty: Man charged with 'common assault' of England's chief medical officer
An investigation was launched after Prof. Chris Whitty was accosted by two men in a London park on Sunday evening.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 11:53:46 +0200
Caught on camera: Libyan coast guard shoots at migrant boat in Mediterranean Sea
The German non-governmental group Sea-Watch filmed the incident while flying over the Mediterranean in an observation mission.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 11:13:50 +0200
Greece: Far-right Golden Dawn's number two figure Christos Pappas due in court after arrest
The 59-year-old former lawmaker had been on the run since disappearing before a court sentenced him to 13 years in prison in October 2020.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 10:00:53 +0200
COVID-19: Australia to halve passenger arrivals due to risks of Delta variant
Australia, which already has some of the world’s tightest border restrictions, will reduce its cap on arrivals from 6,000 passengers a week to 3,000 by July 14.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:50:17 +0200
The Slovenian EU Presidency will be a search for Europe's heart | View
A heavy workload awaits the six-month EU Council presidency, with pending files on climate action and enlargement, but also crucial discussions on EU values and the rule of law.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:31:33 +0200
India's COVID-19 death toll passes 400,000, but experts say it's higher
Experts believe India's reported deaths and infections are massive undercounts. They say an untold number of people died during the April and May surge outside of hospitals and before they could be tested for the virus.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 08:44:45 +0200
Merkel aims for UK-Germany relations reset during last visit
Angela Merkel met Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle and Boris Johnson at Chequers during her last official UK visit as German Chancellor.

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 07:16:57 +0200
UK by-election: Relief for Labour opposition as it holds murdered MP Jo Cox's former seat
Labour beat the ruling Conservatives by just 323 votes to win the north of England seat, a relief for embattled party leader Sir Keir Starmer.

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:40:04 +0200
OECD: 130 countries agree on minimum global corporate tax rate
130 countries have backed a global corporate tax rate but Hungary and Ireland were among a small group of countries that did not join the framework.

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:33:28 +0200
Rescue efforts paused in Florida over concerns remaining building could fall
Rescue efforts have been halted in Florida over concerns about the stability of the remaining building.

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:28:51 +0200
Russia rejects Czech appeal for damages over deadly 2014 ammunition depot blasts
The Czech Republic had demanded compensation from Moscow over a deadly 2014 explosion at an ammunition depot, which Prague blames on two Russian GRU agents.

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:02:46 +0200
Istanbul Convention: Turkey officially withdraws from treaty protecting women
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ended the country’s participation in the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention through a surprise overnight decree in March.

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 16:53:23 +0200
Murder of Austrian teenage girl sparks row over deportations policy
A 13-year-old girl was allegedly drugged, abused, and killed in Vienna last weekend by four Afghan nationals.

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 16:53:14 +0200
How did the 'Green Wave' suddenly lose momentum for the upcoming German elections?
The Greens raced to a shock lead in the polls following their nomination of Annalena Baerbock for chancellor - but amid accusations of plagiarism, CV embellishment, and a coordinated advertising attack campaign, their lead has vanished.

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:48:31 +0200
Sweden political crisis: Conservatives fail to form majority government
The failure means that the ousted Social Democrat prime minister Stefan Löfven has been tasked again with forming an executive.

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 14:53:19 +0200
WHO issues fresh warning to EURO 2020 fans travelling in COVID-19 pandemic
The World Health Organization says the number of COVID-19 cases in Europe has risen by 10% in the last week.

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 14:20:45 +0200
Burglary gang jailed in France for theft from Paris celebrities
Seven men and one woman have been convicted of targeting high-profile figures in Paris, including footballers Thiago Silva and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting.

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 13:27:34 +0200
Allen Weisselberg: Trump Organization finance chief surrenders ahead of expected tax crime charges
Weisselberg was seen walking into the courthouse in lower Manhattan around 6:20 a.m. with his lawyer.

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 09:19:18 +0200
EU leaders shouldn't rely solely on the Commission to act against Hungary’s anti-LGBT law | View
"EU leaders have to realise that once things turn nasty it is not enough to solely rely on a guardian of the treaties which they practically castrated over the past couple of years."

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 08:09:10 +0200
China will not be bullied, Xi Jinping tells Communist Party centenary crowd
Those who try to bully China will end up with "broken heads and bloodshed", President Xi Jinping told a mass gathering in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 23:27:48 +0200
Prison officers in Italy suspended after video of beating of inmates released
Surveillance videos published by the Il Domani newspaper showed club-wielding officers beating, kicking and punching inmates at the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison in Naples.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:47:25 +0200
Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who oversaw Iraq war, dies aged 88
Donald Rumsfeld, who served four US presidents, oversaw the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 and was blamed for the long and costly war that followed.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:01:47 +0200
Bill Cosby freed from jail after sex assault conviction overturned by Pennsylvania court
The highest court in the state of Pennsylvania found an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented the disgraced actor from being charged.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:15:36 +0200
Dancing from Delhi to Dubai
Famous dancer and choreographer, Anup Bhardwaj, discusses his life and love of dancing and what he's looking to do in the future.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:12:59 +0200
Two former allies of ex-Serbian President Milosevic convicted of war crimes by UN court
A United Nations court has convicted two former allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic of aiding and abetting crimes committed during the Bosnian war.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:00:49 +0200
China's Communist Party celebrates its 100th anniversary, looks to cement its future
The week-long celebrations focus on the party's early struggles and recent achievements, discarding decades of mismanagement.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:36:03 +0200
Euro 2020: Who is in the quarter-finals and how did they get there?
Euro 2020 has already been a hugely exciting tournament - and there are still seven games to go. Here's how the quarter-finals have shaped up

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:19:50 +0200
Italian police accused of racism over viral video of arrests in Milan
A group of black youths were beaten and arrested by the carabinieri in a central area of ​​Milan on Sunday morning.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:43:34 +0200
Kim berates North Korean officials for 'crucial' virus lapse
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated top officials for failures in coronavirus prevention that caused a “great crisis".

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:07:17 +0200
Lampedusa: Seven dead, nine missing after migrant boat capsizes off Italian island
A migrant boat carrying an estimated 60 people overturned off the island of Lampedusa just as rescue crews were arriving, authorities said.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:54:45 +0200
Sweltering heatwave linked to sudden deaths in western Canada and US Northwest
The heat wave is caused by what meteorologists describe as a dome of high pressure and worsened by human-caused climate change, which is making such extreme weather events more likely and more intense.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:41:56 +0200
Biden to visit site of Florida building collapse as death toll rises to 16
149 people remained unaccounted for on Tuesday evening. No one has been pulled out alive from the ruins since the first hours after the building fell last Thursday.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 09:49:00 +0200
NASA and ESA to test nudging asteroids off collision course with Earth
It's World Asteroid Day! And to celebrate, Euronews looks at two missions launching into space that will see how potentially dangerous asteroids could be nudged off course by flying a spacecraft into them.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 08:01:46 +0200
Post-Brexit residency: Many EU citizens face uncertainty as UK deadline arrives
Wednesday is the deadline for applications for the UK government's post-Brexit "settled status" scheme for EU nationals living in the country.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 07:29:28 +0200
G20 talks in Italy yield pledge to fight hunger in Africa and climate change
G20 foreign and development ministers agreed to boost efforts to fight hunger and climate change but there was discord over vaccine policy.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 06:42:33 +0200
Russia targets investigative journalists with raids amid independent media crackdown
Police raided the homes of journalists from the Proekt online outlet. The website was investigating the wealth of Russia's interior minister.



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