Demonstrators took to the streets to protest the imprisonment of a rapper for a fourth consecutive night in Spain on Friday, as relations strained inside the country’s coalition government over its response to the unrest. Police in the northeastern region of Catalonia,...
A last-minute decision to cancel the reopening of ski resorts in Italy has sparked fury and a rebellion against the restrictions. Italy’s ski season had been scheduled to get under way on Monday, but was postponed by the health ministry until 5...
Commercial TV channels, radio stations and web portals have gone off air in Poland in protest at tax proposals that critics say threaten independent media, a day after Hungary’s leading private radio station lost its broadcasting licence. The European commission on Wednesday...
Journalist Fedor Khudokormov was filming the protest postscript to Tuesday’s jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny when a riot-police officer turned away from beating a young demonstrator to push the reporter away. Mr Khudokormov, who was wearing clearly identifiable yellow...
Supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny have taken to the streets in Siberia and the Russian far east for a second straight weekend despite a sweeping crackdown on his allies and warnings from the police. Rallies are also planned in Moscow...
Emmanuel Macron branded France "a nation of 66 million prosecutors" in a stunning outburst this week. The French president, who appeared rattled during his outburst, was accused of losing it after he bashed his own citizens for daring to criticise him. Opposition...
Medical-grade face masks rather than cloth coverings could become mandatory in a number of European countries to help contain the rapid spread of highly contagious Covid variants first identified in the UK and South Africa. Angela Merkel and the leaders...
The Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has arrived in Moscow nearly five months after a suspected poisoning by Russia’s FSB spy agency left him fighting for his life. Navalny’s plane landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday evening after being diverted from...
Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right party, the CDU, is choosing a new leader this weekend – a decision which will act as curtain raiser for what will be a busy German election year ahead. Mrs Merkel, now 66, has steered Germany, and Europe,...
Italian political leader Matteo Salvini appeared Saturday before a Palermo judge in connection with a 2019 incident during which he blocked migrants at sea while he was the interior minister. Salvini, head of the far-right political party known as the League, is...
