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At least 21 people are killed with more trapped under collapsed buildings after the 6.8 quake.

Meijer Nieweg was murdered in August 1942. It has taken decades for details of his death to emerge.

A woman has been taken to hospital and gardaí described the deaths in Newcastle as ‘unexplained’.

A Russian consular official and a trade representative were ordered to leave Bulgaria as the latest spy scandal increased tensions between Sofia and Moscow. Previously, three Russians were charged with attempted murder.

Four others remain missing after a snowmobile ride on a Quebec lake went disastrously wrong.

Ever more pesticides, many illegal, are being used in Turkey, according to a new Greenpeace study. Yet the tainted produce keeps ending up on European dinner tables, setting off alarm bells about serious health risks.

Police believe the attack at a restaurant in Rot am See was related to a family dispute.

Media giants such as Google have been outspoken opponents of the legislation.

Anastasia Shevchenko has been under house arrest for a year and has found a spy-camera in her flat.

Police believe the unnamed Briton fell off a cliff after a night out on Thursday.

The government says changing the pension system is the only way to guarantee "intergenerational justice." Negotiations with labor leaders are set for next week.

Portuguese diplomat Joao Vale de Almeida is set to serve as the EU’s top envoy in London after the UK leaves the bloc, EU authorities have said. The diplomat has represented the EU in Washington and at the UN.

The German chancellor has signaled the government’s intention to provide funds for "this humanitarian action." Turkey’s leader has proposed building shelters for refugees displaced by fighting in Syria’s Idlib province.

The two airlines have confirmed the deal, which will allow the combined entity to serve 20 million passengers a year. LOT’s owner has insisted a €380 million German government bridging loan will be repaid.

The highly secretive American founder of white supremacist group The Base is tracked to Russia.

The deal formally ending UK membership is signed by EU leaders in Brussels.

For the first time since Irish independence, a general election will be held on a Saturday.

The heads of the EU Commission, the EU Council, and the UK government have signed off on the Brexit deal negotiated with the UK. Here’s what else needs to happen before Britain leaves the bloc at the end of the month.

The firm says it plans to build up to 15 of the mini reactors, which can be delivered by a lorry.

“The world would be a better place if they weren’t in power,” Mr Soros said at Davos.

During a brief visit, Chancellor Merkel plans to address multiple topics with President Erdogan, from regional conflicts to human rights issues. German politicians believe continuing dialog is crucial.

The woman boasted about taking medicine to bring her temperature down in order to clear customs.

Matteo Salvini is hoping to cause a political shock by winning a traditional stronghold of the left.

The finding marks the first time that scientists have verified the process of vitrification. The black brain fragment has captivated researchers since its discovery in the 1960s.

The lower house, the Sejm, has approved a bill that analysts fear could be used to stifle judges critical of government legal reforms. The new legislation has been heavily criticized by the European Union, among others.

Muslim and Jewish leaders have together offered memorial prayers at the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz. Muslim leaders have described the visit as "both a sacred duty and a profound honor."

The family-run operation was conducted on the outskirts of Madrid, where the dogs were found in dire conditions. Authorities said they found the corpses of two dogs.

Experts say the man’s brain, found in the Roman town of Herculaneum, was affected by extreme heat.

The final formality for the withdrawal bill was confirmed when Queen Elizabeth II gave royal assent. PM Boris Johnson yesterday praised the legislation, saying "we have done it" after it was ratified by UK lawmakers.

Lithium, a vital component of batteries contained in mobile phones, computers and electric cars, is a prized metal. In Portugal, which sits on vast, untapped deposits, it’s also a divisive topic. The Socialist government wants the country to become the number one European supplier of the metal, with plans to create thousands of jobs. But not all Portuguese are happy about this new mining business and its environmental impact. Our correspondents report.

Chancellor Merkel, in Davos, has said the conflict in Libya must be stopped before another refugee crisis begins. She added that a global decrease in diplomacy was making regions like the Sahel more unstable.

Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power and at least 13 people were killed.

Olga Lyubimova knows about film and TV production, but once apparently admitted loathing many art forms.

As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, FRANCE 24’s Jerusalem correspondent sat down with Dita Kraus, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp in Poland.

Vladimir Putin has had a new constitution crafted to ensure he controls Russia for as long as he pleases. The new Russian government has been put in place to make sure that happens, writes Konstantin Eggert.

The French designer has said goodbye to his 50-year runway career in Paris but says he will not stop working.

A man who shot three men whom he believed were drug dealers to death has become something of a folk hero in Croatia. That says more about the government’s priorities than the man or the people who are celebrating him.

The German government Wednesday handed three works of art stolen during the Nazi occupation of France back to descendants of their original owner, the collector and Jewish lawyer Armand Dorville.

Last week, Vladimir Putin proposed sweeping changes to Russia’s constitution. Now the parliament has voted in favor of the new measures. Analysts called the fast-moving events in Russia a "sting operation."

Authorities banned a neo-Nazi group that saw itself as "Adolf Hitler’s task force" and had links to the murder of a German politician. Police also conducted raids against the group in six states.

The Turkish foreign minister has aimed heavy criticism at the EU, claiming that the bloc failed to pay billions of euros promised in a refugee pact. The criticism came ahead of a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Poland’s president has snubbed an Israeli event to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Two women imprisoned in eastern Ukraine for distributing pro-Ukrainian leaflets in separatist areas were part of a major prisoner swap last month. They spoke to DW about living behind bars, their hopes and their plans.

At the World Economic Forum, he asked: “Do we want to go down in history as the people who did nothing?”

The head of Italy’s 5-Star Movement stepped down as party leader Wednesday, following a string of parliamentary defections, falling poll numbers and questions about the movement’s future.

FRANCE 24 commemorates the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with “The Last Ones”, a series of portraits of the camp’s last survivors by documentary film-maker Sophie Nahum. 

French President Emmanuel Macron berates the security for not leaving a Jerusalem basilica.

Monty Python star Terry Jones has died at the age of 77, his family said Wednesday, after a long battle with a rare form of dementia.

Marine foam brought ashore by Storm Gloria floods streets in Tossa de Mar.

German prosecutors have raided 10 business premises as part of a probe into suspected diesel emissions cheating involving Mitsubishi cars, the latest fallout from the so-called “dieselgate” scandal.

Greece’s parliament on Wednesday elected the first woman president in the country’s history, a senior judge with  expertise in environmental and constitutional law.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday assailed environmental “prophets of doom”, delivering an uncompromising message in Davos after Swedish teenage campaigner Greta Thunberg slammed government inaction on the climate crisis.

Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday slammed global inaction on climate change in front of the world’s top business leaders, as the annual Davos forum faced up to the perils of global warming while bracing for an address from US President Donald Trump.

Eleven people including 10 Uzbek workers died when a fire ripped through a one-storey wooden shack in a remote village in the Siberian region of Tomsk, officials said on Tuesday.

The starkly opposed visions of US President Donald Trump and Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg on climate change will clash in Davos on Tuesday as the World Economic Forum tries to face up to the perils of global warming on its 50th meeting.

France’s bioethics reform reaches the Senate floor on Tuesday, three months after lower-house lawmakers passed the controversial legislation. The bill, which has been considerably amended by senators in committee, could yet change, with the lesbian couples and single women poised to gain legal access to medically assisted reproduction potentially seeing social security coverage for the procedure withdrawn.

A large part of Turkey is located in an active seismic zone, where earthquakes are recorded every day. Twenty years ago, the city of Izmit saw one that killed more than 17,000 people. Since then, local authorities in the economic capital Istanbul have been working to prepare the city and its 16 million residents for the next big quake, which experts say could take place in the very near future. Our correspondents report.

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto hits back at claims of fraudulent use and mismanagement of EU funds. In November, Hungary agreed to pay a €1.6 billion penalty for alleged mismanagement of European funding. Meanwhile, The New York Times has published claims from a former Hungarian state secretary that PM Viktor Orban used Common Agricultural Policy money to enrich his family and friends. Szijjarto says his government is “ready for any kind of investigation” and claims the former state secretary has “personal” motives for speaking to the media.