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The discovery of a series of murders has shocked Cyprus. According to police a 35-year-old army officer has confessed to killing five women and two little girls. He apparently convinced the victims - most of them domestic workers from Asian countries - to meet up with him in online chats. The police now fear the man may have killed more women. Critics accuse the authorities of not being thorough enough in their investigations.

The European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that the EU-Canada free trade agreement, and its controversial dispute settlement mechanism, is in line with the bloc's rules.

The devolved Scottish and Welsh parliaments have separately declared climate emergencies, citing the threats of climate change, just as Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party is expected to push Westminster to do the same for the whole of the UK.

The mechanism for the resolution of disputes between investors and States provided for by the free trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA) is compatible with EU law

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Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to restart EU-brokered talks on better relations, amid ongoing disagreement, in the region and beyond, on a land-swap deal.

Sweden Democrats are now not set to join a new Salvini-lead far-right group in the European Parliament, party leader, Jimmi Akesson told Dagens Nyheter. "I am disappointed," he said, to not have been invited. His party could however not work with "Russia friends from France" - a reference to Marine Le Pen, he added.

Five candidates discussed what they would do if they were the next president of the European Commission. But the big absentee of the evening was the candidate of the European People's Party.

US President Donald Trump, three of his children and seven of his companies filed a federal lawsuit Monday (29 April) against Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp to block the banks from complying with federal subpoenas investigating his financial dealings.

Carles Puigdemont is set to take legal action to defend his rights as European Parliament candidate and for voters' right to cast a vote for him. He could go so far as to challenge the outcome of the May elections.

Higher numbers of severe obesity and overweight cases were reported in Southern European, according to a new study from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Treatment and management options are still having a limited impact.

With the jihadists behind the bloodshed in Paris and Brussels able to criss-cross European borders at will, anti-terror chiefs have been forced to come together to seek a common response to a global threat.

US president Donald Trump and several members of his family on Monday sued Deutsche Bank to stop it from handing over financial records to congressional subpoenas investigating his companies' financial dealings. Trump's lawsuit contends that demands for records by Democrat-controlled House committees have "no legitimate or lawful purpose" and were issued to harass him as president. Deutsche Bank started providing financial records to New York state's attorney general last week.

"The case of Danske Bank is not closed for us," EU's justice commissioner Vera Jourova has told the Financial Times. The commission's pledge to follow up on the money-laundering scandal came despite a vote in the European Banking Authority on 16 April rejecting that its supervision of Danske Bank had failed, and shelving an investigation into the €200bn Danske Bank scandal linked to illicit Russian money.

Kosovo and Serbia have agreed at a summit in Berlin to resume talks, after the leaders of France and Germany warned the bitter foes that resolving their dispute was crucial to future ties with the European Union.