Europe Today
Top stories from across Europe: breaking news, analysis and what matters today.
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Why Meloni has hit back hard against Trump and his ‘made up’ photo claim
With her popularity flagging and a general election looming, the Italian PM sees a strategic advantage in the rupture If Giorgia M…
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US lifts export controls on powerful AI models, Anthropic says
Anthropic will restore global access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the US Department of Commerce lifted security restri…
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Russia arms civilian gas ship with machine guns in ‘hostile message to Nato’
Estonia reveals startling images of Russian natural gas carrier, the Marshal Vasilevskiy, mounted with weaponry and sandbags
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Watch: Mount Etna eruption creates trail of bright orange lava
A stream of thick orange lava was seen trailing from Europe's biggest active volcano, Mount Etna in Italy, snaking through the mou…
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Putin has admitted Russia is facing problems in Ukraine war – are there signs he may be cracking?
Russia’s president has made a rare acknowledgement his country is suffering from fuel shortages because of Ukrainian drone strikes…
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Cancer-stricken mother fighting to bring home Indian student held in Ukraine after joining Russian army
Delhi court orders urgent action as student's captivity exposes recruitment of Indians into Russia’s war with Ukraine
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Russian soldiers ‘surviving average of 20 minutes when they reach frontline due to drone attacks’
GCHQ estimates that half a million Russian troops have been killed - and increasingly this due to drone warfare on the frontline
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France sweep past Sweden, Mexico advanced while Belgium prepare for Senegal test
Kylian Mbappé scored twice, and Bradley Barcola added a third as France beat Sweden 3–0, reaching the World Cup last 16 with Mexic…
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Record-high ocean heat could fuel sea level rise and extreme weather on land
New Copernicus data reveals that daily global sea surface temperatures have broken records for the time of year.
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Ukraine war briefing: Swedish defence maker Saab signs deal to deliver 16 fighter jets to Kyiv
Defence maker Saab signs contract to deliver 16 Gripen E fighter aircraft to Ukraine in $24.6bn deal. What we know on day 1,589 …
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France sets presidential election date as Macron finishes final term
France will hold the first round of its next presidential election on April 18, 2027, with a run-off set for May 2, an executive s…
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US-EU Bosnia envoy clash rooted in Trump pipeline deal
A transatlantic dispute over a $1bn no-tender gas pipeline for a Trump-linked firm has paralysed the appointment of Bosnia's top i…
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Death toll from Venezuela earthquakes climbs to 1,943
UNICEF has estimated that around 1.8 million people, including 680,000 children, require humanitarian assistance following the qua…
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Brent posts biggest monthly decline since March 2020 as traders monitor U.S.-Iran talks
The moves come as oil traders monitor the prospect for U.S.-Iran talks in Doha on Tuesday.
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Firefighters struggle to contain deadly Greek wildfire
More than 100 firefighters are fighting a fire near Thessaloniki which has claimed at least two lives.
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France's Emmanuel Macron speaks out against global rise in executions
"The death penalty has never made a society safer," Macron said during a speech at the ninth World Congress against the death pena…
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'Putin doesn't care about Russians' quality of life', expert says as pessimism reaches 20-yr high
Russians are more pessimistic about the state of their economy than at any time in the past 20 years, and a majority say living…
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Prosecutors conduct Europe-wide raids over alleged misuse of funds by defunct far-right EU group
Raids were underway in France, Spain, Italy and Belgium as part of a probe into the alleged misuse of European parliament funds by…
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'Absolute madness': Row over plan to demolish Nazi bunker under Berlin
City officials want to build flats on the city centre site but others say it should be preserved as part of Germany's history.
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Manhunt launched after Monaco blast targets Ukrainian-born oligarch
Police in Monaco and France were searching for a suspected bomber on Tuesday after three people were wounded by an explosion in th…
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More than 1 million migrants apply for Spain's mass regularisation
More than one million undocumented migrants in Spain have sought legal status under a scheme that has defied a European crackdown …
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Crimea back in play? Russia feels pain of Ukraine long-range strikes
A couple of weeks back, we asked if the tide was turning in Ukraine. The short answer: a little, but it's hard to cut through the …
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WhatsApp to replace phone numbers with usernames - what does this change mean for users?
WhatsApp says the new feature will be released over the coming months and that it will notify users when it is available in their …
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Euroclear launches lawsuit to block €220 billion Russian frozen assets ruling
A Moscow arbitration court ruled Euroclear had to pay damages worth about €220 billion for the freezing of the assets