World / Europe

Kiev:  Eight miners died yesterday when a methane gas explosion tore through a pit in western Ukraine, in the latest mine disaster in...

Stockholm:  Sweden is to reintroduce compulsory military service, seven years after abandoning it, to respond to global security challenges including Russia’s assertive behaviour...

Kiev: Kiev said yesterday that President Petro Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held two fruitless phone talks about the war in...

Rome: AT least three people were dead, two were missing and several others injured after two avalanches in off-piste sections of the Italian...

Rukla, Lithuania:  German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel yesterday criticised Russia’s military build-up on its borders with the Baltic states as irrational and said...

Ready your umbrellas and your galoshes. The last month of winter in Europe is forecast to bring windstorms, prolonged periods of rain and...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Sweden's left-leaning government is reintroducing a military draft for both men and women because of what Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist calls...

TRENTON, Ont.: A Canadian university was evacuated Wednesday after separate media outlets received the same letter that threatened to detonate bombs targeting Muslim...

PARIS: Conservative candidate Francois Fillon said on Wednesday he would not pull out of the French presidential election campaign despite being summoned by ...

Oslo: A Norwegian appeals court will decide Wednesday whether mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being treated inhumanely in prison by being kept...

ROME: President Sergio Mattarella partially pardoned an ex-CIA agent convicted for her role in kidnapping Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nas in 2003...

BUDAPEST: Hungary will not accept any refugee sent by other European Union countries, a minister in charge of the Hungarian Prime Ministry said...

Villognon, France:  A French policeman accidentally fired his weapon Tuesday, slightly injuring two people at an event where President Francois Hollande was speaking...

ROME: A new breakaway leftist movement holds the balance of power in Italy’s upper house Senate, complicating life for Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni...

BISHKEK: Russia is confident it will be able to resolve a series of disputes with Belarus, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, referring...

Brussels: European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker will on Wednesday unveil his plan for the EU's future after Britain's departure, his spokesman said. Juncker's...

Athens: Greece was back at the negotiating table with the EU and the IMF on Tuesday to secure a deal to keep crucial...

Kiev: Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine on Monday threatened to seize control of enterprises across their territories unless Kiev halts a blockade by nationalist...