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German police said the deaths, which occurred at the company the man worked for, included a "remarkably high number of heart attacks and cancers"

Almost half of German voters want Chancellor Angela Merkel to quit, according to a new poll, more than those who want her to stay on.

Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have called for the EU's border management agency to be strengthened. The Visegrad Group has pushed for hard-line policies on irregular migration to the EU.

The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) have called for Sweden to hold a referendum on the country's EU membership after the 2018 Swedish general election. SD party leader Jimmie kesson told newspaper Dagens Industri that the EU is a "large web

The chancellor was struggling Monday to head off a mutiny within her conservative bloc.

The foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia (FYROM) have signed a preliminary accord on the latter's name. The deal aims at ending a decades-long dispute.

Mediterranean resorts are having to ban swimming because of plagues of jellyfish, which scientists blame on a complex cocktail of human impacts, from climate change to overfishing.

Austria plans to close seven mosques and may expel dozens of imams in an effort to push back against radical Islam and foreign funding of religious groups.

A major US-led exercise in Poland and the Baltic states has kicked off. It comes amid interest from Poland about welcoming a permanent US military presence on its territory.

Italy's president swears in an anti-establishment government, ending a three-month long political stalemate.

Slovenian voters go to the polls this weekend in a parliamentary election expected to produce no clear winner but could see an anti-immigrant party backed by Hungary's firebrand Prime Minister Viktor Orban make strong gains.

Spain's prime minister Mariano Rajoy was deposed Friday by a no-confidence vote in parliament amid corruption scandals in his center-right The post Spanish Prime Minister deposed. Socialists move in appeared first on DEBKAfile .

Security forces cleared more than 1,000 people from a sprawling migrant camp in the French capital on Wednesday, the latest in a series of episodes that have...

President Macron's commitment to ban glyphosate-based weedkillers within three years remains in place, his government says, even though MPs have thrown out legal moves to

Belgian media say a gunman shot dead two police officers and a bystander in the eastern city of Liege.

Authorities backtrack after comments stir controversy.

Two people are killed and several hurt in a knife attack in central Paris, French media say.

People promoting "hostility" towards a religion or the transgendered online could get much harsher sentences, of up to six years in jail, especial if they have a large online audience, according to new proposals.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an act that Jewish groups praise as helpful in their efforts to reclaim lost property in Poland but which the Polish government says is ...

Juusuf Muhamed Abbudin (10 MVLehti) The Supreme Court in Finland upheld a ruling that said sex between a 23-year-old migrant and 10-year-old girl was not rape. Juusuf Muhamed Abbudin was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse for the assault on the girl. Vo