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Georgia has recorded fewer than 1,000 infections and only 15 deaths among its 3.7 million people.

Croatia’s Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic hailed a “great” re-election victory for his conservative HDZ party as officials results showed them leading parliamentary elections on Sunday.  

France’s cybersecurity agency is encouraging telecom companies not to use Huawei equipment for their 5G networks. However, the country is stopping short of a complete ban on the Chinese group.

Wolfgang Schäuble has called for improved integration in the eurozone. He said the bloc would be "significantly further ahead today" if the EU had established a "prevailing" monetary fund in the 2010 Greece crisis.

After days of stand-off the passengers, who include children, will be taken into quarantine in Sicily.

Austria’s counter-terrorism unit is probing the murder of an ethnic Chechen man near the city of Vienna. Speculation is growing that the killing was a political assassination connected to Ramzan Kadyrov’s region.

Valtteri Bottas kneeled holding the winners’ trophy at Formula One’s season-opening Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday, where the podium trio held up a black T-shirt with “End Racism” written on it.

As people in England get the green light to go abroad again, here’s a look at what’s in store for travellers.

The center-right party is on course to build a new coalition following the parliamentary vote, exit polls suggest. The opposition said voters had been endangered by the early elections amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

Algeria on Sunday buried the remains of 24 resistance fighters returned from Paris after more than a century and a half as it marked the 58th anniversary of its independence from France.

Galicia reinstates curbs on a coastal area, a day after Catalonia imposed a similar local lockdown.

Bars, pubs and restaurants have reopened in England prompting the public to gorge themselves. As large crowds gathered, one police chief warned that inebriated citizens proved they can’t keep their distance.

The coronavirus crisis has hit young people in Spain with full force. An emergency work program is at least in place in some tourist spots to help some through the summer. Jan-Philipp Scholz reports from Andalucia.

Whether in France, Ireland or Germany, Green parties are gaining ground in Europe. Even when they don’t make inroads into national governments, the planet wins, writes DW’s James Jackson.

The 55-year-old woman was attacked in a Siberian tiger enclosure at a zoo in the Swiss city.

Christian, Jewish and Muslim representatives have criticized the European Union’s decision to drop its special envoy for religious freedom. A leading Jewish figure called it "the wrong signal for Europe."

Marseille became the latest French municipality to elect a Green mayor on Saturday, in a wave that has swept the country since local elections at the end of last month.

Italy has authorised charity vessel Ocean Viking to disembark 180 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean in Sicily, ship operator SOS Mediterranee said on Sunday.

The magazine says it was trying to raise awareness after it was accused of using dystopian imagery.

Millions of young Turks will soon be of voting age and President Erdogan wants to win them over. Yet many of the country’s youth feel rebellious and openly reject him.

After multiple suicide attempts over the past few days, migrants aboard the private rescue ship Ocean Viking will be moved to a quarantine vessel in Sicily.

Ex-president Poroshenko sees Russian influence at work in the new administration.

As official LGBT+ Pride events around the world were postponed or went virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of grassroots protesters in Paris turned out to protest racism and police brutality.

Online streaming is one of the few industries to enjoy a boom out of lockdown restrictions, and Turkish TV dramas have found great success, reaching audiences all over the world.

Between 2,000 and 3,000 people turned out Saturday in Paris for a politically engaged Gay Pride march, a week after the officially scheduled event was cancelled because of coronavirus restrictions.

The newest country in the EU is at the ballot box — but young voters are likely to turn their backs on the election.

Shocked Zoo Zurich visitors have witnessed a woman being attacked and mauled to death by a Siberian tiger. Swiss authorities are investigating why the zookeeper and the tiger were inside the enclosure at the same time.

Some 200,000 people living in the northeastern Catalonia region have been given new stay-at-home orders. Spain’s tourism and hospitality sectors are struggling to rescue what remains of the summer season.

The Spanish region re-imposes restrictions on an area west of Barcelona after a surge in infections.

Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region on Saturday locked down an area with around 200,000 residents near the town of Lerida following a surge in cases of the new coronavirus.

Portuguese leaders say the country’s exclusion from a list drawn up by the UK government is “absurd”.

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe had to go, now Jean Castex will step in as his replacement. President Emmanuel Macron is under pressure and has only two years to create a new political profile for himself.

England takes its biggest steps yet towards resumption of normal life on Saturday as people are finally allowed to drink in a pub, get a haircut or have a meal in a restaurant for the first time in over three months.

Resorts on Spain’s southern coast are hoping for tourists to save their summer.

Two ex-aides of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are among 20 on trial in absentia for the killing.

One person attempted to hang himself while others tried to jump into open waters. The Ocean Viking has been stuck south of Sicily after requests to dock at seven ports rejected or ignored.

Hours after Philippe’s resignation, an inquiry is launched into the government’s handling of Covid-19.

Lionel Messi is disillusioned with many aspects of life at Barcelona at the moment – and it throws his future at the Nou Camp into doubt.

Air France confirmed plans to cut some 7,500 jobs including 1,000 at sister airline Hop! on Friday, as staff protested over its response to the collapse in travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Authorities reportedly sealed off roads to the factory after family members rushed to the site in search of loved ones. The blast could be heard 30 kilometers away.

France’s new prime minister, Jean Castex, warned on Friday that the coronavirus pandemic was not over and an economic crisis was already making itself felt, as he took the helm of President Emmanuel Macron’s government.

A French court is opening an inquiry into former prime minister Édouard Philippe and two other ministers over their handling of the coronavirus crisis, a prosecutor said Friday.

Ex-Amnesty Turkey chief gets six years in ruling condemned as an “outrage”.

French President Emmanuel Macron has named Jean Castex the country’s new prime minister after the resignation of former PM Édouard Philippe’s cabinet. Rather unknown to the public, Castex “comes from the mainstream right-wing party Les Républicains and is best known as “Monsieur Déconfinement” (Mr Post-lockdown) since April, when he was put in charge of organising France’s gradual exit from lockdown, something that has so far met some success”, FRANCE 24’s Christopher Moore reports from the Élysée Palace.

Father Sergiy is refusing to leave a convent near Yekaterinburg after seizing it with armed guards.

The verdict came three years after Peter Steudtner and 10 other human rights activists were arrested in Turkey on terrorism-related charges. Four others in the case were handed jail terms.

French President Emmanuel Macron has named Jean Castex the country’s new prime minister after the resignation of former PM Édouard Philippe’s cabinet. Rather unknown to the public, Castex came to some prominence in early April when appointed to head the government’s strategy for ending coronavirus lockdown measures. “This is about strategy”, Andrew Smith, professor of philosophy and French politics at Chichester University, tells FRANCE 24.

French President Emmanuel Macron named senior civil servant Jean Castex – who coordinated France’s reopening strategy after almost two months of Covid-19 lockdown – the country’s new prime minister on Friday as part of an expected cabinet reshuffle. 

French President Emmanuel Macron has named Jean Castex the country’s new prime minister after the resignation of former PM Édouard Philippe’s cabinet. Rather unknown to the public, Castex once served as deputy general secretary for the Élysée Palace under Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency and came back to the public light in early April when appointed to organise the government’s strategy to end Covid-19 lockdown measures. 

French President Emmanuel Macron’s government resigned, just before a French court said it would investigate ministers over their coronavirus response. Top civil servant Jean Castex is France’s new prime minister.

Angela Merkel has said Europe is in one of the "most difficult situations in its history" as it attempts to strike a deal on a coronavirus economic response. She and Ursula von der Leyen called for a rapid agreement.

Hundreds of arrests have taken place after a secret chat application used by criminals was busted.

He demands respect for Russia on the world stage, so what makes him tick?

Three hundred towns and villages were hit by flooding, and climate change and logging are blamed.

Russians are voting on constitutional changes that would mean he could stay in office until 2036.

After a three-month closure due to coronavirus, the monument in Granada has once again opened its doors.

Most LGBT Pride events were cancelled or moved online because of coronavirus, but not all.

It’s been out of the headlines for the past few months, but Brexit is back on the political menu.

The Italian coastguard cut the trapped sperm whale free off the coast of Lipari, north of Sicily.