EUROPE

Europe’s largest active volcano erupted late Friday, spewing ash high into the air and closing two nearby airports. A mighty eruption of Sicily’s Mt. Etna sent molten lava 1.5 kilometers down one side of the […]

British Airways and German airline Lufthansa, two of Europe’s largest airlines, announced Saturday to suspend flights to Cairo for unspecified security reasons. British Airways announced that the flights are suspended “as a precaution to allow […]

Around 1.3 million persons seeking protection received humanitarian residence permit and thus recognized protection status in Germany in 2018, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) announced on Thursday. This was 129,000 more than in the previous […]

Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen was elected to be the next president of the European Commission on Tuesday with a slim majority. She made history as the first female chief executive of the European Union. […]

The Bulgarian government on Monday decided to propose the National Assembly to ratify the contracts on the acquisition of eight new F-16 Block 70 fighter aircraft worth nearly 1.26 billion U.S. dollars. The four contracts […]

Three people were arrested and war weapons seized in a counter-terrorism operation launched against far-right activists here, Italian authorities said on Monday. The operation was coordinated by prosecutors in the city of Turin in northwest […]

Nine people were killed in a plane crash just outside Umea in northern Sweden on Sunday afternoon, Swedish News SVT reported. A light plane crashed into a small island just two kilometers south of the […]

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said British diplomats should keep speaking “without fear” after Britain’s Ambassador to Washington Kim Darroch resigned over leaked messages that criticized U.S. President Donald Trump. In messages intended to be […]