Three million Afghans could return to their country this year, a UN refugee official said Friday, warning that the repatriation flow is placing intense pressure on an already major humanitarian crisis ...

Moscow sweltered on Friday in a heatwave with temperatures topping 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the Russian weather service, breaching a municipal record registered nearly ...

French police are investigating claims that social media network X, formerly known as Twitter, skewed its algorithm to allow "foreign interference", the Paris prosecutor said Friday. Investigators ...

Ratings agency S&P upgraded Bulgaria's long-term sovereign credit rating to 'BBB+' from 'BBB' on Thursday, citing the country's formal approval to join the eurozone on January 1, 2026. European Union ...

Britain and France took a key step to underpin Europe's security by agreeing to tighten nuclear cooperation, as the region frets over the US commitment to its defence and Russian ambitions. In ...

Italy's competition watchdog said Thursday it had opened an investigation into UK online bank Revolut over "misleading" messages to customers about its investment services. The Competition and Market ...

The threat posed by Iran in the UK has "significantly increased", with Iranian spies behind more than a dozen attempts to kill or kidnap British-based individuals since 2022, parliament's intelligence ...

In jihadist-threatened north Benin, the army is waging a campaign away from the front -- a programme of social projects, including free veterinary care, to tempt locals away from extremism. Located ...

Ukraine said that one of its security service members was killed Thursday in central Kyiv, in what appeared to be the most recent targeted attack on security personnel since Russia invaded. Moscow has ...

A UK parliamentary committee on Thursday blamed Iran for at least 15 attempts to kill or kidnap British-based individuals since 2022, saying the threat from Iran had "significantly increased".

A man injured during a huge explosion at a petrol station in a Rome suburb last week died on Wednesday, a local administration official told AFP. The 67-year-old, who worked at the gas station in the ...

A Belgian state watchdog has warned the country is drowning under a flood of small packages from China, as the EU grapples to control the influx. Belgium's Central Economic Council said the number of ...