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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the European Union unveils its long-term spending proposals next week, it will kick off the bloc's biggest budget battle in recent history. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has a mammoth task on her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...