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The European Commission on Sunday sent two Spanish aircraft to fight the wildfires in Portugal, which had activated the European Civil Protection Mechanism, the EU executive announced. “Portugal activated the European Civil Protection Mechanism to request emergency assistance for the...

After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Madrid was greeted by the LGBTIQ pride march on Saturday with the motto “in the face of hate: visibility, pride and resilience”. Thousands, including activists from more than 100 organisations and cabinet...

Independent Irish lawmakers have been the objects of lobbying in recent days ahead of a vote of no-confidence in the government scheduled for this week. Efforts to gain the support of these lawmakers have come from both the current coalition...

An increasingly crowded field of candidates is assembling to contest the Conservative party leadership ahead of the first votes to whittle down the candidates to replace Boris Johnson to take place this week.  After Ben Wallace, the most popular choice...

Chancellor Karl Nehammer will visit Israel on Monday alongside two ministers to discuss security, energy cooperation, Russia’s war on Ukraine and sign a strategic partnership treaty. A deal with Israel, a historically close partner of Austria, could cover its gas...

Emmanuel Macron, who won the presidential election in April, did so by buying his way through the election, far-right rival Marine Le Pen said on Sunday. “Today, he says ‘now that I’m elected, we’re going to turn off the taps’”,...

French President Emmanuel Macron backed the economic development of US company Uber in France and signed a secret “deal” when he was economy minister between 2014 to 2016, an international media investigation known as the “Uber Files” published on Sunday...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is set to meet NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels this week amid plans to turn a port on the country’s Adriatic coast into an Alliance naval base. This comes just months after work started...

Rome was struck by a major fire on Saturday, the fourth in less than a month, prompting the centre-right, which also criticised the city’s long-standing waste management problem, to call for a state of alert for the city. On Saturday,...

Fuel retailers will have greater leeway in determining how much biofuel they add to their fuels under an amended regulation on renewable sources in transport the government adopted to help keep fuel prices in check. According to the amendment, retailers...

Representatives of the largest opposition party, the liberal Civic Platform (PO), are increasing socially-sensitive policies despite having previously criticised left-leaning social solutions, but many are unconvinced. PO, led by former European Council President Donald Tusk, has 106 deputies out of...

As the war in Ukraine rages on and energy prices increase, most Finns want Russia to face even stricter sanctions, recent polls show. Fifty-four per cent of Finns would be ready to impose even stricter sanctions on Russia, while only...

Policymakers and stakeholders in Germany fear the 10-day maintenance work on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will lead to an indefinite stop in Russian gas flows. Russian state-owned giant Gazprom is set to suspend gas flows through Nord Stream 1...

France's energy-intensive companies are speeding up contingency plans and converting their gas boilers to run on fuel oil as they seek to avoid disruption in the event any further reduction in Russian gas supplies leads to power outages.

Rescuers picked through the rubble of an apartment building in eastern Ukraine searching for two dozen people, including a child, feared trapped after a Russian rocket strike on the five-storey building killed 15 people.

US President Joe Biden on 8 July thanked staff at the headquarters of the CIA for warning the world about Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans to invade Ukraine, and hailed what he called the "quiet bravery" of America's spies.

Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo stormed the president's official residence and his secretariat on Saturday (9 July) amid months of mounting public anger over the country's worst economic crisis in seven decades.

The Berlin government has committed to propping up the world’s largest gas importer, Uniper, which is in trouble due to reduced gas flows from Russia.

While a global food price crisis is gaining momentum aggravated by the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the debate around facilitating Ukrainian grain exports seems to be stuck just as grain trucks are stuck on the borders.