Europe

For the first time in more than a decade, Greeks will go to the polls Sunday to elect a leader no longer confined to steering the country’s economy from a back seat. Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is seeking a second…

Mohamed Awad and Ahmad Omar, two ​​members of an organized crime group who smuggled over 40 Syrian migrants into the UK, have been jailed. The defendants both pleaded guilty to assisting unlawful immigration. Awad, aged 25, of London,…

Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, UAE’s minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation, met the UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs James Cleverly on Monday for the inaugural UK-UAE Strategic…

A German court on Tuesday convicted five men over the theft of 18th-century jewels worth more than $108.76 million (€100 million) from a Dresden museum in 2019. They were sentenced to prison sentences of between four years and four…

French former president Nicolas Sarkozy lost his appeal against a 2021 conviction for corruption and influence peddling at the Paris Court of Appeals on Wednesday. The court upheld a three-year prison sentence. It said two of those years…

European leaders on Tuesday pledged to hold Russia to account for its war against Ukraine and unveiled a mechanism to track the losses and damage inflicted by Moscow’s forces, convening in Iceland for a two-day summit. German Chancellor…

The UK Home Office is to fast-track the asylum applications of more than 20,000 people from Iraq and Iran in an effort to fulfill a pledge by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to clear a substantial backlog of more than 90,000 claims. A leaked…

France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that his country had “opened the door” to training Ukrainian fighter pilots, even if he excluded sending any war planes to Kyiv. Macron spoke a day after Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky…

There is “no good reason” why the UK cannot train enough lorry drivers and fruit pickers among its own citizens to reduce immigration, Home Secretary Suella Braverman told the National Conservatism Conference on Monday. Britain’s…

Buckingham Palace cooperates with study on British monarchy's ties to slave trade, granting full access to archives and collection. King Charles takes the issue "profoundly seriously," and the study is expected to be completed…