Europe

The right-wing AfD is to stay, and will constrain Merkel's leadership - but less so than in neighbouring EU countries. AfD co-chair Frauke Petry speaks at the closing event for the party's local elections campaign in Hanover on September 10 By:Thorsten Benner @thorstenbenner Thorsten Benner is director...

A Malian man in France has been hailed a hero and granted French citizenship after he scaled an apartment building to rescue a child dangling off a balcony. French President Emmanuel Macron announced that Mamoudou Gassama, an undocumented migrant, would become a "naturalised French" national and join the fire service, the...

PARIS—Political newcomer Emmanuel Macron will be France’s next president, pollsters projected Sunday night, delivering a resounding victory to an unabashedly pro-European former investment banker and strengthening France’s place as a central pillar of the European Union. A crowd outside the Louvre museum at a Macron...

By Brian Love | PARIS Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen took a fishing-boat ride on Thursday as two polls suggested the underdog had made a more impressive start to the last lap of campaigning than the favourite, centrist Emmanuel Macron. Since last Sunday's opening...

Qatar and Russia announced the new agreement, which will see closer trade ties, during a visit by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the Gulf Nation on Wednesday. Lavrov made the commitment after a meeting in Doha with his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed bin...

A further worsening of relations between Moscow and the United States is in the interests of neither side, Nikolai Patrushev, the Secretary of Russia's Security Council, was quoted as saying on Tuesday. "As recent history shows, relations between Russia and the USA will sooner or...

By : Anadolu Agency More than 64.1M people registered to vote to elect president, parliamentarians for next 5 years Millions of voters started heading to the polls in Türkiye as the country's presidential...

By: Anadolu Agency Millions of voters started heading to the polls in Türkiye as the country’s first-ever presidential runoff election began Sunday at 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT). More than 64.1 million people...

Government hopes two-year social experiment will cut red tape, reduce poverty and boost employment Finland has become the first country in Europe to pay its unemployed citizens a basic monthly income, amounting to €560 (£477/US$587), in a unique social experiment that is hoped to cut...

'We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands' says the German chancellor, the day after a G7 summit. German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday urged European Union nations to stick together in the face of emerging policy divisions with the US, Britain's...