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A Russian court convicted imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny of extremism charges and sentenced him to 19 years in prison Friday. Navalny is already serving a nine-year term on a variety of charges that he says were politically motivated.

TikTok will face a fine over its handling of children’s data in the EU following a decision made Friday by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).

Gibraltar is one of the UK’s Overseas Territories and, according to its citizens, it’s happy to be one. Often described to be “more British than Britain”, the identity of its younger generation is rooted in the territory’s relationship with Spain. However, there are now fears that Brexit may change its character.

French writer Gilles Perrault, whose “Le Pull-Over Rouge” novel helped spark debate over capital punishment in France, has died, his family said on Thursday. He was 92.

With just one year to go before Paris hosts the Olympic Games, one of the city’s airports suffered an unprecedented breakdown Thursday that led to a mountain of luggage piling up and delayed flights.

The pope said that ignoring the clergy sexual abuse scandal for so long marred the Catholic Church and drove people away from it.

Pope Francis on Wednesday met with victims of clerical sexual abuse, as he began a five-day visit to Portugal for a major Catholic youth festival.

Pope Francis blasted Portugal’s Catholic Church leaders for the “scandal” of clergy sex abuse Wednesday as he kicked off a trip to the European country, saying their actions had helped drive the faithful away.

Reports of new deals to sell French arms to India and Qatar are just the latest sign that France’s defence industry is gaining pace. The news comes as Russian arms exports decline in the wake of the war in Ukraine, leading to speculation that France could soon take its place as the world’s second-largest weapons exporter after the United States.

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Vox is nothing more than a simplified expression of the ideas that were always seen as acceptable by Spain’s conservative hardliners, Antonio Maestre writes.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told Euronews that a road to reconciliation between Armenia and Azerbaijan is possible, but work needs to be done.

UK to keep EU safety mark in Brexit climbdown EU’s product safety symbol will remain on goods in the UK, in a massive post-Brexit climbdown. …

Pope Francis headed to Portugal on Wednesday to open the first post-pandemic edition of World Youth Day, hoping to inspire the next generation of Catholics while coping with the church’s ongoing clergy sexual abuse scandal.

Russian drones attacked port and grain storage facilities in the south of Ukraine’s coastal Odesa region in the early hours of Wednesday, including the inland port of Izmail across the Danube River from Romania. And Kyiv’s military administration said the city’s air defences downed more than 10 Russian drones during an overnight attack. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

Journalists at France’s Journal du Dimanche newspaper ended a 40-day strike on August 1, 2023 over the appointment of a far-right editor in chief.

At five o’clock sharp, Poland paid homage to the heroes of the Warsaw Uprising.

The Russian military said its anti-aircraft units thwarted a Ukrainian “terrorist attack” early on Tuesday and downed drones targeting Moscow, but one drone, sent out of control by its units, struck the same high-rise tower hit earlier in the week. There was no word on potential casualties. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

Despite Paris being one of the world’s most expensive cities, the EUR1 coffee lives on in a few local institutions. With a crowdsourced interactive map revamped in May, the Paris city council is doing its best to make sure it stays that way.

Vienna has retained its crown as the world’s most liveable city, according to Economist’s annual index. But other European cities have not fared well.

Portugal has doubled its 2030 goals for solar and green hydrogen capacity. It’s also helping people to live and travel more sustainably.

The Danish government said Sunday it would explore legal means of stopping protests involving the burning of holy texts in certain circumstances, citing security concerns following backlash over such incidents that saw the Koran desecrated in Denmark and Sweden.

Cypriot leaders on Friday urged members of their rival communities to come forward with information on hundreds of victims from conflicts which swept their island half a century ago, during a symbolic visit to the lab of the UN-backed Committee on Missing Persons.

Explosions from a thwarted drone attack rocked a Moscow business district on July 30, 2023. In Ukraine, an overnight Russian missile strike killed at least one person in the northeastern city of Sumy; a Russian missile strike on Saturday killed two people in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.

The second day of the far-right, Alternative for Germany (AfD) party congress saw 600 delegates from all over Germany gather in Magdeburg on Saturday. Attendees elected incumbent EU Parliament member, Maximilian Krah, to lead the Party’s 2024 European Union election campaign.