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‘When it exploded, the earth trembled.’

A new survey lists glass eyes, a clown costume and witchcraft paraphernalia as just some of the weirdest items.

I feared my birthday trip would be left in tatters, but I was wrong.

Around 250,000 people turned out across Germany on Saturday in protests against the far-right AfD, which sparked an outcry after it emerged that the party’s members discussed mass deportation plans at a meeting of extremists.

A French court on Friday gave suspended jail sentences to three officers in a rare case of police brutality coming to court, after a black man suffered irreversible rectal injuries.

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed this week to tackle the country’s growing infertility problem as part of efforts to revive the country’s sluggish birth rate, describing the subject of infertility as “the taboo of the century”. More than three million people in France are said to suffer from the condition, making it a major public health issue – but one that has never been treated as such.

Netanyahu publicly rejects US push for Palestinian state Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear to the United States that he rejects the…

It’s been described as a bombshell moment. The upper echelons of Sweden’s government and defence forces last week shocked the nation by explicitly warning that war might come to Sweden, and that each and every Swede should prepare themselves. While some have taken the warning seriously and flocked to the stores to stock up on fuel and survival kits, others have accused the country’s leaders of fear-mongering.

This means Russia could use warships to deter any UK trawlers.

‘I’ll go to work and won’t come home. He will come and kill me.’

Five people were injured by the boiling water as it burst into the sky.

This is the biggest protest in Russia since Putin invaded Ukraine.

France’s controversial new culture minister, Rachida Dati on Wednesday said she plans to run for Paris mayor in 2026, only days after joining President Emmanuel Macron’s reshuffled government. Dati’s arrival was the biggest surprise in last week’s cabinet shake-up that saw 34-year-old Gabriel Attal take over as prime minister.

In a high-stakes discussion at Ukraine House in Davos, Ukrainian MP Yehor Cherniev warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin may not wait for a conclusive victory in Ukraine before launching a potentially ominous attack on other European nations.

France’s top court confirmed ‘complicity in crimes against humanity’ charges against cement maker Lafarge linked to the firm’s past operations in war-torn Syria on January 16, 2024.

France’s top court on Tuesday annulled a lower court decision to extradite Edgardo Greco, a convicted mafia killer-turned-pizza chef who has been on the run since 2006, to Italy.

Europe Briefing – Macron to face the press, Iceland volcano eruption A look at the big stories from Europe today as French President Emmanuel Macron is…

France’s President Emmanuel Macron is to answer questions from the media at a rare press conference on Tuesday as he seeks to turn around his second term with a new cabinet.

Farmers clogged Berlin streets with their tractors on Monday, honking their horns in protest at a plan to scrap tax breaks on the diesel.

The world’s wealthiest five men have more than doubled their fortune since 2020 from $405 billion to $869 billion last year, the charity Oxfam said Monday in a report published as the global elite hobnob at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. Yet since 2020, nearly five billion people worldwide have grown poorer, Oxfam said. Pointing to the level of “staggering, obscene inequality”, Oxfam International Interim Director Amitabh Behar told FRANCE 24’s Yuka Royer that the world is “entering into an era of billionaire supremacy”.

Houses caught fire after a new volcanic eruption sent smoke and lava spewing out near the Icelandic fishing port of Grindavik Sunday, just hours after villagers were evacuated to safety, authorities said.

Here’s the city of dreams.

Lava is flowing towards an evacuated fishing town.

Denmark turned a page in its history on Sunday when Queen Margrethe formally abdicated and her son became King Frederik X, with big crowds gathered in Copenhagen to witness history. 

‘It’s built out of trauma’