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Top European officials are increasingly alarmed that Russia could stage drone or missile attacks against NATO countries as Moscow steps up its hybrid campaign across the continent.
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Hamas planned coordinated terrorist attacks in Berlin and Vienna to mark the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, according to a 214-page indictment filed by Germany’s federal prosecutor.
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The European Union is calling for global artificial intelligence rules, its top tech official said today, after a viral warning from a former Anthropic engineer said AI could end humanity.
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How Trump took control of Venezuela’s democratic transition
The fixer at the center of FIFA’s meltdown
Iceland has voted against restarting accession talks with the European Union in a referendum held this weekend.
Europe's famed wine and spirits makers have spent years turning their bottles into cultural icons.
But a new EU anti-waste law could send those intricate designs straight to the recycling bin.
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A group of Palestinian students and researchers is unlikely to take up scholarships at Belgian universities this fall due to disagreements in PM Bart De Wever’s coalition government over evacuating people from Gaza.
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Ukraine has intelligence that Russia is planning new ground offensives against Kyiv and Chernihiv — while Moscow ramps up drone strikes on Ukrainian cities.
Since last year, Elon Musk has said Volodymyr Zelenskyy had “terrible judgment” and wanted a “forever war.”
So why did the Ukrainian president award the tech billionaire his country’s Order of Freedom?
Our Daria Zakharova explains 👇
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Tourist authorities want to harness the revival of interest in ancient Greece created by Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster movie The Odyssey.
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EXCLUSIVE: This summer’s extremes show that governments must spend more on beefing up defenses against global warming or face an even steeper bill in the years to come, the EU’s climate chief told POLITICO.
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An ecstasy pill shaped like the head of U.S. President Donald Trump is potentially lethal and should not be taken “under any circumstances,” a Dutch drug institute has warned.
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The U.K.’s Brexit settlement scheme left a woman stranded at a foreign airport after confusing her for her identical twin sister.
The error is the latest in a string of problems caused by the system's design.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is preparing to blame Russia for the attempted drone attack in Leipzig and announce "extensive" sanctions, in what would mark a serious hardening of Berlin's posture toward Moscow.
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A Russian drone strike killed at least 27 people near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this morning.
Scottish scientists are at the forefront of MS research using tiny fish that can regenerate their nervous systems.
But Britain’s post-EU reality is creating bottlenecks for breakthroughs.
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Detonating a riverbed and sinking barges.
Welcome to Europe’s increasingly desperate efforts to keep the Danube River — one of the continent’s most important waterways — working.
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Tomorrow, Icelanders will vote on whether to restart negotiations to join the EU.
A “Yes” result would reopen a path toward membership — and the bloc’s rules prohibiting the killing of whales.
That would spell trouble for the country’s last whaler.
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Russia’s campaign against Europe looks increasingly brazen.
Yet EU leaders remain reluctant to call it what a growing number of security officials say it resembles: war.
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