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PM meets French president in Paris, insisting Brexit impasse can be broken “with energy and creativity”.

The stabbing of a 35-year-old man in Chemnitz last year sparked violent far-right protests.

German steel giant ThyssenKrupp has said the European Commission was "too far-reaching and wrong" in blocking a merger with Tata Steel. ThyssenKrupp has filed a complaint against the Commission’s decision.

A group of tourists was reportedly struck at the peak of Giewont, a popular mountain.

The UK has no system to work out who is legally in the country after a no-deal Brexit, experts say.

The Democratic Party leader calls for a “turning-point” government as an alternative to the right wing.

Research during Ireland’s abortion referendum highlights risks for social networks.

Ahead of his meeting today with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sat down with FRANCE 24 to talk about some of the pressing issues confronting his newly-elected government. He affirms that the Iranian oil tanker detained for a month in Gibraltar and that has sparked a diplomatic row “is not headed for Greece”. Click on the player above to watch the exclusive interview.

The details of the Irish backstop continued to split European leaders as British PM Johnson met French President Macron. Macron called the backstop "indispensable" to a Brexit deal. Johnson said a new deal is possible.

For 25 years Germans have joked that Bielefeld does not exist – so now the city is fighting back.

UK pilots at the airline have begun a two-day walkout in a row over pay and conditions.

Kosovo is headed for a snap election after its lawmakers voted to dissolve the national assembly. Previously, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj resigned to face an inquiry over war crimes.

The robot, named Fedor, will perform daily tasks during its 10 days on the International Space Station.

Italy’s president has begun talks with key players to end political turmoil in the eurozone’s number three economy. But an anti-euro party could soon be running a country that owes European banks a fortune.

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Boris Johnson for Brexit talks Thursday, with Macron saying ahead of the meeting he hopes the British prime minister will offer some “clarification” on his plans for an exit from the EU bloc.

The man used a "strategically placed mobile phone" to secretly film up women’s skirts on public transit. He then uploaded hundreds of the videos to a pornographic website.

Kosovo lawmakers voted Thursday to dissolve parliament, thereby triggering new elections.

The US secretary of state speaks with Denmark’s foreign minister amid a public row over Greenland.

President Donald Trump declared Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s dismissal of his idea to buy Greenland “nasty” and an affront to the United States on Wednesday, a day after shocking Danes by cancelling a Copenhagen visit over the rebuff.

Germany’s top diplomat Heiko Maas said the war in eastern Ukraine "must be stopped." while meeting his Russian colleague Sergey Lavrov in Moscow. The two diplomats clashed on the issue of media freedom.

The case of the teenage Khachaturyan sisters stirs Russian anger over domestic abuse.

The airline won in a bid to stop Ireland-based pilots from striking, but lost the larger UK batt

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday that the UK “cannot accept” the current Brexit withdrawal agreement.

The Italian government has avoided snap elections pushed by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, for now. Activists protesting his anti-immigrant politics welcomed the news but said Italy must hold the far-right to account.

The suspect allegedly uploaded the videos to pornographic websites, getting millions of views.

How are other countries preparing for a possible no deal?

Worried about the possibility of far-right leader Matteo Salvini taking power, Italy’s main opposition party opened the door on talks to form a new government, but it warned that "loyal membership" to the EU is a must.

Greece has told Tehran it will not aid the Iranian flagged vessel by allowing it to dock. The US had suggested anyone cooperating with the tanker’s requests was also assisting Iranian and Syrian campaigns of terror.

The Office for National Statistics says it may have also overstated migration from non-EU countries.

The US president has cancelled a trip to Denmark because they won’t sell him the massive island.

Iain Macnab will lose his job as Burgermeister of a German town as he will no longer be a EU citizen.

Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and his League’s coalition with the 5-Star movement was only ever a means to an end. His inexorable rise to the top spells more bad news for Italy and the EU, says DW’s Barbara Wesel.

France 24’s correspondant in Rome, Philip Willan

Italy began talks on Wednesday on forming a new government coalition after the resignation a day earlier of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who presided over a tenuous détente between the right-wing League party and the 5-Star Movement.

It’s estimated that fewer than 500 people own half of Scotland’s privately-owned rural land.

Eighty-three migrants rescued at sea by the Open Arms disembarked early Wednesday from the charity rescue vessel in Italy’s Lampedusa island, television images showed, after Italian justice ordered they be brought ashore.

Violence and thefts have surged in Barcelona – and officials are struggling to find a solution.

Campaign groups in France are teaching people how to protest effectively, ahead of the G7 summit.

Dmitry and Olga Prokazov also face a criminal case after footage featuring their baby was posted online.

Eighty-three migrants rescued at sea by the Open Arms disembarked early Wednesday from the charity rescue vessel in Italy’s Lampedusa island, television images showed, after Italian justice ordered they be brought ashore.

Eighty-three migrants rescued at sea by the Open Arms disembarked early Wednesday from the charity rescue vessel in Italy’s Lampedusa island, television images showed, after Italian justice ordered they be brought ashore.

Ahead of his meeting with the German chancellor, Boris Johnson has again urged the EU to reopen Brexit negotiations. The silence so far has been deafening. What is Johnson hoping to achieve in Berlin?

A failed nuclear-powered cruise missile test was the cause of a recent explosion at a military facility in northwestern Russia, according to US experts. Moscow has provided little information about the incident.

It’s no longer the stuff of science fiction: Wars could soon be decided by lethal autonomous weapons systems. But a concerted effort to ban "killer robots" through international law at the UN appears to have hit a wall.

Conte has tendered his resignation and launched a blistering attack on Salvini. The far-right League withdrew its no confidence motion against the prime minister after being taken to task by nearly every other party.

Italian prosecutor’s Open Arms order counter to Salvini’s wishes, notes France 24’s Philip Willan

An Italian prosecutor ordered on Tuesday the seizure of the Open Arms migrant ship and the evacuation of the migrants on board, ending a prolonged stand-off between the Spanish charity and the government in Rome.

French authorities have arrested five people suspected of planning an attack on this weekend’s G7 summit in Biarritz. The meeting of world leaders has proved to be a magnet for left-wing protest movements.

Madrid sends navy ship to bring Open Arms migrants to Spain

France 24’s Philip Willan in Rome discusses ‘bizarre scene’ in Italian Senate as Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigns

Around 1,000 thousand police officers have seized drugs and explosives in raids across Germany, Lithuania and Croatia. The web portal xplosives.net has been taken offline.

Spain was Tuesday set to deploy a naval patrol boat to Italy’s Lampedusa island to take migrants off a charity rescue vessel that has been stuck at sea for days as Italy refuses it access.

The fate of Italy’s coalition is set to be decided after weeks of hostility between ruling parties, the nationalist League and Five Star.

The British government said if it were to leave the EU without a deal on October 31, freedom of movement rules would end at the same time, with no transition period. Critics have blasted the move as "reckless.&quot

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in Iceland for talks with leaders of Nordic countries. Climate policy is expected to dominate the agenda, and Merkel has called for ‘humility’ in our treatment of the environment.

A wildfire on Spain’s Gran Canaria has forced thousands of people to evacuate. Some 6,000 hectares have burned so far and the fire has entered the northwestern Tamadaba natural park.

The French and Russian leaders have said the change of power in Ukraine has boosted chances of peace in its east. But they were less in agreement over Syria — and how to deal with protests.

Thirty years ago a “European unity” picnic became an East German exodus from communism.

The cows on this floating farm in the Netherlands are helping find ways of making food sustainably

A woman forced to work in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries makes an emotional return to the country.