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The chief negotiators on both sides have held talks about the post-Brexit arrangements for NI.

Thirty-three people fall ill in an outbreak traced to a herbal remedy in Denmark.

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel hold talks on Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a show of support for the former Soviet state, which fears a Russian invasion.

Dozens of entities are targeted over attacks including alleged interference in the 2020 elections.

The boss of Europe’s biggest holiday company thinks successful vaccine programmes can prevent another washout.

France toughened its age of consent law as the country’s parliament approved a legislation that characterizes sex with children under the age of 15 as rape. The legislation was passed unanimously.

A meeting to mend broken relations between Greece and Turkey rapidly descended into open confrontation between the two countries’ foreign ministers.

The US has published a vast trove of amount of information about Russian intelligence activities.

Authorities in Denmark are investigating after a salmonella outbreak that was linked to herbal medicine products. Three people with the specific bacterial strain have died.

Two years since the fire, workers are preparing for the reconstruction phase of the Paris landmark.

The key Brexit trade deal now stands a better chance of being ratified in Brussels.

MPs vote to widen protection for children, including extending time limits for reporting abuse.

An email from the French embassy warns of “serious threats” after anti-blasphemy protests.

Lyubov Sobol is a close aide to the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks of the “collective pride” of the reconstruction efforts.

Officials also say they are on track for more than 80% of people to be offered a Covid-19 vaccine by June.

Oxford scientists said COVID-19 patients were eight times more likely to develop rare blood clotting from the coronavirus than the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Polish animal welfare officers responding to a call discover the creature is in fact a pastry.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joe Biden spoke by phone, discussing the security situation in Afghanistan and Ukraine, as well as the COVID pandemic.

President Biden’s proposal for a summit with Russia’s leader means the risk of an escalation has faded.

Real Madrid’s three first-leg goals are enough to knock Liverpool out of the Champions League after a goalless draw at Anfield.

History buffs will be able to roam the ruins of Rome’s “Area Sacra”, perhaps catching a glimpse of Julius Caesar’s ghost, after the site becomes an open-air museum next year.

Social media posts by Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky are being boosted with likes paid for on promotional sites. This also appears to be the case with other Russian political accounts, as DW has discovered.

France’s highest court has cleared Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of charges that he covered up the sexual abuse of children by another priest.

Five years ago, France banned the purchase of sex — but not the sale of it. The prostitition measures aimed to decrease the number of sex workers. The result, however, has seen services pushed into clandestine routes.

Is it a case of Putin putting Biden to the test over Ukraine? With two US warships headed to the Black Sea in response to a Russian troop build-up at the border, Moscow is announcing live fire drills in the same waters while Ukraine trumpets land manoeuvres for its military. We ask about a neighborhood that’s getting crowded and the timing of the sudden spike in tensions less than three months into the Biden presidency.

The EU has announced plans to buy 1.8 billion doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine through 2023. The bloc is also bringing forward shorter-term Pfizer deliveries after suspending orders for the Johnson & Johnson jab.

Sexually exploited women and girls make up the majority of human trafficking victims in the EU. Brussels is now boosting its response against smuggling networks.

Seven years after Ukraine launched an “anti-terrorist operation” against Russian-backed separatist forces, fighting has never really stopped in the country’s restive east. FRANCE 24’s correspondent Gulliver Cragg visited the front line, near the government-held port city of Mariupol.

Two big names in Hungarian football, both based in Germany, have spoken out and one has been fired.

Denmark on Tuesday announced it would stop using the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine altogether, becoming the first European country to do so over suspicions of rare but serious side effects.  

Europe wants to enhance its partnership with India against COVID-19 and climate change. Delhi is pushing for an intellectual property waiver to facilitate vaccine production. 

Brexit, paramilitaries and the fallout from an IRA man’s funeral lie behind rising loyalist tension.

The Czech Republic has among the world’s highest COVID-19 deaths per capita. One of the biggest contributing factors? Widespread obesity.

Fair Isle is one of the UK’s most remote communities – but every adult has now had a second vaccine.

People aged under 60 who have been given a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in Germany will receive a different jab for their second dose, federal and regional health ministers agreed Tuesday. 

US President Joe Biden told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to ease mounting tensions with neighboring Ukraine Tuesday, joining a pushback against a build-up of troops along their border which has raised alarm among NATO allies.

France is suspending all flights to and from Brazil to curb the spread of a new Covid-19 variant found in the South American country, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Tuesday.

The Istanbul Criminal Court sentenced Fabien Azoulay to 16 years and eight months in prison in 2017. His lawyers and relatives have been fighting ever since to have him repatriated to France. They have now decided now to publicise his case to put pressure on the French government.

NATO has vowed to back Ukraine amid tensions in the in eastern Donbass region. The Kremlin accused the US and NATO of turning Ukraine into a "powder keg."

The director dedicated the film to his daughter, Ida, who died four days into filming.

The Guinness World Records rabbit Darius has been stolen from his home. But who did it?

Top US officials are in Europe this week seeking to shore up allied support on countering Iran and China as well as recent Russian moves at the Ukraine border. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Berlin on his inaugural tour of Europe while Secretary of State Antony Blinken went to Brussels on Tuesday for talks on Ukraine and NATO troops in Afghanistan.

Zero asylum seekers — that is essentially the Danish government’s ultimate goal. Now, it is ordering Syrian refugees to return to Damascus, which Copenhagen says is safe.

Europe passed the grim milestone of one million coronavirus deaths on Monday, as the World Health Organization warned that infections are rising exponentially despite widespread efforts aimed at stopping them. 

An anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine movement with ties to the far right has recruited hundreds of children.

As nonessential businesses reopen, DW talked to business owners and patrons in North London to see if this lockdown will really be the last.

One firefighter has died and two are seriously hurt after a massive blaze at a historic factory in St Petersburg.

BBC Weather presenter, Owain Wyn Evans, explains the chilly temperatures and teaches us a new word.

A mixed bag of vaccine strategies that determine who gets which vaccine prevails across the EU and the UK following revelations of possible links between AstraZeneca and blood clots, prompting calls for a “coherent” policy amid fears of growing confusion and lagging public confidence over vaccination rollouts.

The jailed Kremlin critic has lost several kilograms since starting a hunger strike at the end of March. Navalny’s allies say he has been refused access to his personal doctor.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s authoritarian regime is doing its best to prevent a revival of the protests that marked the second half of last year. Opposition leaders are in jail or in exile. New so-called “anti-extremist” laws make it dangerous to even show the protest movement’s red and white colours. Buildings that happen to be in those colours are being repainted. Many opposition supporters are struggling to keep up morale, but others are doing just that by finding inventive new forms of activism.

A spectacular fire gutted a historic factory in Russia’s second city Saint Petersburg on Monday, sending clouds of black smoke over the former imperial capital.

Police reporter Giorgos Karaivaz died after ten bullets hit him in the head and chest. The nation is in shock as politicians in Athens react.

An independent commission is set to investigate the dealings of former British Prime Minister David Cameron with collapsed financial firm Greensill Capital.

An unidentified gunman calmly shot dead a man and badly injured a woman outside a Paris hospital on Monday before fleeing the scene on a scooter, police and witnesses said.

A shooting has taken place in the French capital outside of a hospital owned by the Red Cross. One victim is said to have succumbed to his injuries.

The BBC speaks to the woman who, as a child, witnessed Yuri Gagarin’s return to Earth 60 years ago.

The crew were forced to abandon ship when the sea got really rough.