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 ...

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 ...

An Israeli man was killed in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, local authorities said, with the military and first responders saying that two attackers were shot dead. Emergency services said they ...

The halt to US foreign aid is a "ticking time bomb" that could reverse decades of hard-fought gains in the fight against AIDS, the United Nations warned Thursday. Around 31.6 million people were on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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".

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 ...

British police on Thursday arrested three teenagers and a 20-year-old woman suspected of involvement in crippling cyberattacks earlier this year against the retailers Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and ...

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 ...

A leading humanitarian group criticised Greece Thursday after its government announced it would pause for three months all asylum hearings for people arriving in boats from North Africa, to deter a ...