An old video has been shared on social media, falsely claiming to show French police applauding protests against new COVID-19 restrictions.

"The latest confrontation between Warsaw and Brussels is more than a judicial disagreement: it marks a key moment in the fight between the rule of law and autocracy that threatens to very essence of the European project."

Half of Australia's population is under lockdown because of soaring COVID-19 cases.

"The recent violence in Tbilisi against a planned gay pride parade and some journalists reporting the event, one of whom has now died, show just how far Georgia still needs to go to adopt EU and UK values."

Jamal Hijazi came to the UK with his family in October 2016 as part of the UK government's Syrian refugee resettlement programme.

Italian media said some beachgoers instinctively dived into the sea for cover when they heard the loud crash.

This year alone, the French pilots have accumulated over 500 flight hours over the Mediterranean searching the sea for migrant boats in danger.

The Netherlands’ Data Protection Authority has fined TikTok €750,000 for not offering an understandable privacy statement for users in Dutch.

The five members of the General Association of Hong Kong Speech Therapists were detained in connection with a series of books about sheep, which police said were thought to be allegorical.

Germany’s national weather service said that regions hit by deadly floods last week could see more heavy rain this weekend.

The Iranian province of Khuzestan has experienced internet outages amid demonstrations over a water shortage, NetBlocks says.

Nine people were killed and dozens of others were injured after a gunman with far-right views opened fire in a Munich shopping centre in 2016.

"Burkinis" -- a swimsuit that covers the whole body except the face -- have been outlawed by several French municipalities since 2016, arguing the costumes violate the country's secular values. But activists have argued that the ban is rooted in Isla...

On July 22, 2011, right-wing extremist Anders Breivik set off a bomb in the capital, Oslo, killing eight people, before heading to tiny Utoya island where he stalked and shot dead 69 mostly teen members of the Labor Party’s youth wing.

Spanish authorities said it constitutes one of the largest arrivals in recent years.

The man wore a niqab covering his face and carried fake IDs and a negative PCR test result.

Director Kentaro Kobayashi was accused of using a joke about the Holocaust in his comedy act, including the phrase “Let’s play Holocaust."

The equivalent of a year's worth of rain in three days swallowing up an underground line and turning streets into rivers.

It comes after Germany and the United States announced a deal to allow the completion of Nord Stream 2.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven and Astrid Hoem, leader of the Norwegian Labour Party's youth wing, laid flowers on Wednesday at a memorial to the 69 mostly teenaged victims of the terror attack.

About 1,500 demonstrators gathered in Syntagma square as the Greek government introduced a new bill to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for care home staff.

A British man was arrested in Spain over his alleged role in the high-profile Twitter hack last summer that targeted US politicians, celebrities and tech moguls.

A councillor for Italy's far-right League has been placed under house arrest on suspicion of fatally shooting a man in a public square.

Norway's PM said she was "sad and furious" about the vandalism.

Two inmates broke into a staff room and are holding two guards hostage, demanding a helicopter and 20 pizzas.

Police in 26 EU member states seized 15.4 tonnes of sub-par food and 1.7 million litres of counterfeit booze from alleged criminal gangs.

The UK wants a major rewrite of the rules. “Put very simply, we cannot go on as we are,” Brexit minister David Frost said on Wednesday in the House of Lords.

A teenager has been arrested in the French investigation into the intentional power cut that affected a vaccination centre in Audincourt.

Survivors and experts say that hate speech and the far-right ideology that inspired the massacre of 77 people still prosper.

Because of Brexit, new drivers from Europe can no longer come to work in the UK as easily as before. Many went home during the COVID pandemic and have not returned.

Ten people suffered minor injuries after a gun was fired at a seaside nightclub in Taranto, southern Italy.

The Games will go back to Australia 32 years after the popular 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Hungary's Viktor Orban will hold referendum on anti-LGBT law.

At least 171 people were killed in Germany when small rivers swelled quickly into raging torrents after persistent downpours last week.

Designated Prime Minister Ariel Henry, a neurosurgeon and former Cabinet minister, has promised to form a provisional consensus government to lead Haiti until elections are held.

Hundreds of thousands of people were forced from their home after Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, was hit by 20 centimetres of rain in just an hour.

Varosha, a fenced-off derelict area under Turkish control, has been left deserted since the 1974 invasion that split Cyprus.

German investigators say the suspect in a knife attack in Würzburg has been sent to a psychiatric hospital and may not be held criminally responsible for his actions.

No, the beds in the Olympic village are not designed to be anti-sex - they’re just eco-friendly.

A man and a teenager have been convicted of arson in the Netherlands, after setting fire to a coronavirus testing facility in January.

Researchers estimate the total number of excess deaths may be between 3 and 4.7 million since the start of the pandemic.

The draft bill is another milestone in the government's aim to heal divisions over Franco's place in Spanish history but is likely to re-ignite the debate over freedom of expression.

China claims the island which is officially known as the Republic of China and rejects any use of the "Taiwan" name on the international stage.

"If my mother tongue, the Macedonian language, is the reason we can’t move closer to the EU, then the EU is not really what we thought it was – a community of values."

The new rules see refugees given temporary rather than permanent residency in Sweden as a rule of thumb, while new arrivals must wait at least three years before they can apply to stay permanently in the country.

Only 2% of the governments' projected Covid-19 recovery spending is earmarked for clean energy transitions, the International Energy Agency has warned.

The President of Turkey threw his weight behind a two-state solution for the Mediterranean island during a controversial visit to mark the 47th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

European nations will not be credible to others if they cannot agree at home, and third countries will instead bank on the proposals being watered down.

The Israeli-made spyware is believed to have been sold to authoritarian regimes, with French and Hungarian journalists on the potential target list.

“Best day ever,” Bezos said after the capsule touched down on the desert floor at the end of the 10-minute flight.