Europe

A 40-year-old Iraqi man who is suspected of being a member of the Islamist terrorist group ISIS was arrested in Athens, Greece on Thursday. The man was originally arrested on December 7 for a series of crimes, including creating false...

The Italian Senate voted to ban all fur farms and shut down mink farms on Wednesday. The Budget Committee of the Italian Senate decided in favor of shutting down every last one of the country's 10 mink fur farms, as...

Malta became the first EU country to legalize cannabis for personal and at-home use on Tuesday. Malta's parliament approved a legal reform that gives citizens the ability to grow and possess specific amounts of marijuana. Citizens 18 and over can...

Greece is leading the world in its response to Covid-19. A new study on crisis management and resilience during the pandemic published by the Bereslmann Foundation on Friday has ranked Greece amongst the top ten in multiple categories. The researchers analyzed...

European leaders issued warnings on Friday that the Omicron variant will likely become the dominant strain of Covid-19 in less than a week. "We expect it to overtake Delta within days, not weeks," First minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon told...

A study published on November 17 found that there are 600 million fewer birds in Europe than there were just 40 years ago. The study was led by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), which looked at...

31 migrants drowned on Wednesday while attempting to reach the shores of the United Kingdom. The group was discovered in the English Channel, the passage between the UK and France. The International Organization for Migration (IOM)'s Missing Migrants Project tragedy...

On Wednesday night, German political parties announced the conclusion of negotiations and the formation of a coalition government that will officially mark the end of Angela Merkel’s sixteen years as Chancellor. On September 26th, 2021, the center-left German party, the...

The World Health Organization's Regional Director for Europe, Dr. Hans Kluge, said on Tuesday that the continent is facing a grim outlook for the future of the Covid-19 pandemic. WHO Europe expects 700,000 more people to die from coronavirus across...

A Covid surge across Europe has instigated a new series of lockdown measures and vaccine mandates across the continent. Austria initiated a national lockdown on Friday as France's Industry Minister Agnes Panniere-Runacher also announced that they were "very cautiously"...