U.S. President Donald Trump pressed NATO allies to sharply raise defense spending as leaders gathered in Ankara, singling out Spain as a "terrible partner" for refusing to commit to a 5% GDP target by…
Syrian authorities have arrested the cell responsible for twin bombings in Damascus that killed one person and wounded dozens earlier this week, Interior Minister Anas Khattab announced Wednesday. The…
France is grappling with an intense heatwave and widespread wildfires, prompting Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to convene an interministerial crisis cell on 10 July. Nine western departments are un…
An American biotechnology company is developing an implantable weight-loss device as an alternative to weekly injections of GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy. Researcher Adam Mendelsohn, based in…
The European Parliament voted on July 7 to open negotiations on a legal framework for a digital euro, clearing a key legislative hurdle for the proposed central bank currency. Lawmakers in Strasbourg…
Global equities fell sharply and oil prices surged on Wednesday after the United States launched airstrikes on more than 80 targets in Iran and President Donald Trump declared an end to a temporary ce…
Western Europe recorded its hottest June in history in 2026, with an average temperature of 20.74°C that exceeded the 1991–2020 baseline by more than 3°C and surpassed the previous regional record set…
President Donald Trump pressed NATO allies on Tuesday to channel rising defence budgets into American weapons systems, casting a shadow over a summit in Ankara where economic commitments dominate the…
France advanced to the 2026 World Cup semi-finals after a 2-0 victory over Morocco in Thursday's quarter-final, securing a meeting with the winner of Spain vs. Belgium. Kylian Mbappé opened the scorin…
Germany's Standing Committee on Vaccination has dropped its recommendation for a baseline Covid-19 vaccination for healthy adults, saying broad immunity across the population and declining severe outc…
Volkswagen's supervisory board meets on July 9 to consider eliminating up to 100,000 positions worldwide and closing four German factories, a dramatic expansion of restructuring presented by CEO Olive…
A four-year-old girl died on Wednesday afternoon after being bitten multiple times by a dog in Drosa, a village in the municipality of Osternienburger Land in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented each leader attending the NATO summit in Ankara with a loaded revolver engraved with the recipient's name, accompanied by a box of ammunition and a let…
Porsche reported a sharp decline in global deliveries during the first half of 2026, with sales falling 16 percent to roughly 122,300 vehicles compared with the same period last year. The steepest los…
The European Union executive on Wednesday proposed a new sanctions framework aimed at migrant smugglers, human traffickers, and other organized-crime networks operating outside the bloc, marking a sig…
The BMW iX3 and Zeekr 7GT have become the first vehicles to secure five-star safety ratings under Euro NCAP's comprehensively revised 2026 testing protocols, the organization announced on Wednesday. T…
Ukraine has installed 97 onshore wind turbines between 2023 and 2025, far outpacing Denmark's 22 over the same period, prompting questions to Danish Climate and Energy Minister Samira Nawa about the c…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for lethal autonomous weapons to be outlawed under international law, describing them as "morally repugnant" in a speech on artificial inte…
Rivers and lakes across Austria and Germany are entering peak summer at historically low levels following months of below-average rainfall, prompting transport disruptions and environmental alarm. Aus…
Cerebras Systems unveiled plans to build a network of artificial intelligence data centres across Europe, targeting 200 megawatts of combined power capacity by the end of 2027. The announcement, made…
Tadej Pogacar launched a devastating solo attack in the Pyrenees on Wednesday to win the sixth stage of the Tour de France by two minutes and 38 seconds over rival Jonas Vingegaard, seizing control of…
Ukraine's prosecutor general said on July 9 that no evidence has been found of Ukrainian state involvement in the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, rejecting German suspicions that the sabotage was car…
The European Union is weighing a diluted proposal to bar Russian military personnel from entering the bloc after France and Italy pushed back against a broader initial plan from the European Commissio…
Germany has reached an agreement with the United States to acquire Tomahawk cruise missiles, a move Chancellor Friedrich Merz said would close a critical gap in the country's military capabilities. Me…
SAP has averted a potential European Union antitrust penalty by offering binding concessions that make it easier for customers to switch providers or terminate contracts, ending a probe that began in…
The European Parliament has voted to hold an emergency ballot on Thursday over whether to revive a lapsed regulation allowing platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp to voluntarily scan private messa…
Patrick O'Donovan, Ireland's minister for arts, media and sport, has been hospitalised in Brussels after becoming unwell on Tuesday night while attending events tied to Ireland's presidency of the Cou…
MFE-MediaForEurope has sharply raised the synergy benefits it expects from its takeover of ProSiebenSat.1, projecting €160 million in savings this year against an earlier estimate of just €30 million,…
The European Commission has referred Hungary to the Court of Justice of the European Union over its caps on retail price margins, escalating a dispute over rules that Brussels says distort the single…
AI chatbots exhibit significant editorial bias and surface Russian disinformation when retrieving news, according to a study published Wednesday by Agora Digitale Transformation, a Berlin-based think…