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Nina Bahinskaya was again among dozens of women detained at a rally against Belarus’s president.

Scuffles have broken out between police and people protesting coronavirus restrictions in London. Officers said they ordered the crowd to disperse after demonstrators failed to follow social distancing rules.

Hundreds of women calling for the authoritarian president to step down protested in Belarus’ capital on Saturday, continuing the large demonstrations that have rocked the country since early August.

Spain’s health minister urges more restrictions in Madrid, stoking a political row as cases spike.

Dutchwoman Anna van der Breggen becomes a double world champion by winning the women’s road race at the Road World Championships.

The suspected assailant told French police he wanted to target Charlie Hebdo to avenge the publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons. Two people were wounded in the knife attack, and seven suspects are in custody.

Two people were seriously injured in the attack near the Paris ex-offices of the satirical magazine.

A group of eastern EU leaders has rejected the EU Commission’s new migration policy proposals. The carefully constructed plans to deal with asylum-seekers have collapsed before even being built, says Bernd Riegert.

As EU member states attempt to agree on a new migration pact, refugees in Lesbos have been moved to a new site that they say is abysmal. From Lesbos, Marianna Karakoulaki reports on conditions at the camp.

The aircraft, carrying air force cadets, was on a training flight when it came down near Kharkiv.

Names of powerful Russians often feature in revelations about secret payments. The FinCEN Files are no exception — some of them are President Vladimir Putin’s closest friends.

The global death toll from COVID-19 could double to 2 million before a successful vaccine is widely used and could be even higher without concerted action to curb the pandemic, an official at the World Health Organization said on Friday.

Russia has claimed that Germany is obstructing a probe into the case of poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. The 44-year-old lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner continues to recover in Berlin.

A military transport plane carrying air force cadets crashed and burst into flames near a highway in northeastern Ukraine on Friday evening, killing at least 22 people on board, officials said.

There is mounting pressure to have two of France’s best-loved poets reinterred in the Paris Pantheon.

The population of Barga in Tuscany is usually swelled by visits from Scottish Italians every summer.

The EU has said respect for international law is "not optional," referring to UK threats to renege on parts of the withdrawal agreement. The UK has recognized it would be breaking international law by altering the deal.

The chief medical officers met to discuss the rise in coronavirus cases in Donegal and the north west.

A Ukrainian military plane carrying aviation school students burst into flames after crashing, killing 26 people on board. The cause of the crash is not yet known.

Cardinal Becciu managed a controversial deal to buy a luxury London property with church funds.

The French interior minister said the attack wounding two people was "clearly an act of Islamist terrorism." It coincided with the start of a trial for the alleged accomplices in a 2015 attack on the magazine’s offices.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu has hit back at Pope Francis, after the Holy See announced his resignation on Thursday. The now-former head of the Vatican’s saint-making body says the pontiff pushed him out over fraud claims.

“We’re all in this together” says the European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides. This as she calls on EU member states to take “immediate measures” to prevent the spread of Covid-19 to avoid new full lockdowns.

A Serbian MiG-21 crashed into a village near the Bosnian border, with both pilots losing their lives and at least one local resident injured. The outdated Soviet-era jets are normally used for combat training.

A Norwegian court on Friday approved an extradition request from France for a suspect linked to an attack in a Jewish neighbourhood in Paris in 1982.

A team of researchers has revealed a pioneering model that aims to predict the rate of propagation of Covid-19 in each country in Europe.

A special committee of the European Parliament is set to detect and combat foreign cyberattacks. The EU has confirmed that targeted disinformation campaigns are on the rise — partly relating to the coronavirus pandemic.

EU court ruling that the tech giant does not have to pay hefty back taxes to Ireland goes back to court.

More than 100 Polish regions have declared themselves "LGBT-ideology-free zones." Pressure is mounting for European lawmakers to take concrete action — but will that make any difference for those facing discrimination?

French prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation after two people were wounded in a knife attack in Paris on Friday near the former offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The suspected perpetrator, as well as six other men, have been taken into custody.

At least 18 of the suspects have already been detained, Anadolu Agency reported. It was not immediately clear why the warrants were issued six years after the demonstrations.

In 2017, winemakers Domaine de la Bouche du roi decided to plant a vineyard in the Paris suburb of Versailles. The wine project is now starting to bear fruit, helped along by a partnership with the most iconic Parisian brand of all: The Eiffel Tower.

A powerful Vatican cardinal caught up in a real estate scandal resigned suddenly on Thursday and gave up his right to take part in an eventual conclave to elect a pope, in one of the most mysterious episodes to hit the Holy See in years.

Lack of training is restricting access to abortion in Germany, but students are trying to change that.

Some people, including scientists, believe the hard lockdown measures can be confusing.

A team of 15 specially trained sniffer dogs has started work at Finland’s biggest airport.

Russian authorities seized Alexei Navalny’s Moscow apartment while the opposition leader was still in a coma, Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said Thursday and linked the move to a tycoon with ties to the Kremlin.

Ski enthusiasts visiting Austria’s resorts would need to forego the so-called "apres-ski" parties, said Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. The country is still dealing with the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak in Ischgl.

Christof Gramm has faced criticism for his efforts to tackle links between the army and extremism.

Authorities are warning parents in Belarus that they could lose custody of their children if they take them to anti-regime protests. But not everyone is deterred by this warning.

Avoid hospitals from being overrun again. Avoid a second lockdown at all costs. France but also Spain, the UK and others are all asking one simple question: how to live with Covid-19? In two weeks, the number of French Covid patients in hospital has doubled. So why are citizens in some of the hardest hit areas like Marseille so angry at new restrictions that include the shutting of bars, restaurants and gyms?

Russia’s key opposition figure, recovering from a poisoning, has had his assets frozen, his team says.

Officials who "rigged" Belarus’ election and launched a crackdown on anti-government protesters are to be sanctioned by the British government. The US and Canada are working together with London on the measures.

Italy on Thursday allowed a rescue ship with 125 migrants aboard to dock in Sardinia to escape rough seas and said the migrants could eventually disembark in Italy before being sent to other European countries.

Russian authorities imposed an "arrest order" on Alexei Navalny’s Moscow apartment and froze his bank accounts while the opposition leader was in a coma, his spokeswoman said. The move is linked with a 2019 court order.

Seven EU countries are of “high concern” because of rising virus death rates, with worrying trends in several other countries, the EU’s disease control agency warned on Thursday.

Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki and the Czech Republic’s Andrej Babis shot down the EU’s planned migration reform ahead of scheduled talks. The Visegrad group rejects asylum-seeker quotas.

Record-breaking surfer Maya Gabeira on why she “wasn’t ready to give up” after almost drowning.

The German NGO that organized Alexei Navalny’s evacuation from Siberia to Berlin says the Russian dissident is determined to return to his home country — but that it’ll be at least another month before he’s fit to do so.

Madrid has requested urgent help to hire hundreds of foreign doctors to reinforce hospitals in the Spanish capital and police to enforce quarantines and issue fines, as the coronavirus pandemic’s second wave hits the city hard. Madrid accounts for more than a quarter of new Covid-19 cases in Spain, where the number of daily deaths and infections is now at levels not seen since May.

Demonstrations have continued in Belarus since the president declared victory in last month’s election.

Young stars have been criticised after announcing they were abandoning efforts to combat the virus.

The European Union refuses to recognise Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president after his inauguration that lacked “democratic legitimacy” and Brussels is reviewing its relations with Minsk, the EU’s diplomatic chief said Thursday.

The UK’s future relationship with the EU remains uncertain – but some things will be different in 2021.

Russia’s top opposition figure has left hospital but it was his colleagues who gathered the evidence.

Her career spanned eight decades and she charmed audiences in France and beyond.

A glimpse behind the scenes of the challenges in reporting from the remote Yakutia region of Siberia.

An investigation by BBC News Arabic has found that Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich, controls companies that have donated $100m to an Israeli settler organisation.

The hurricane-like storm swept across Greece trapping hundreds of people.

Women want to hold to account the masked people picking protesters off the street in Belarus.