Only a small number of veterans were able to attend due to COVID-19 restrictions.

At least 138 people died in Burkina Faso in the deadliest attack in the country for years.

Officially the reason for the closure since December is COVID-19 - but many suspect Lukashenko of using the pandemic as a pretext for clamping down on the protest movement against his rule.

A federal judge overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, saying it violated people's right to bear arms.

An exhibition entitled "They're Here to Stay: A Decade of Remarkable Acquisitions and Their Stories," opened virtually in February.

"Who exploits them and who benefits from it? It's here in Europe."

After much bureaucratic delay, two million square meters in the west part of the city are to be restored to their former glory.

Access to Twitter was restricted in Nigeria, a day after the government announced the suspension of the social network's activities in Africa's most populous country.

Veterans of the Normandy landings are gathering on the eve of the anniversary of D-Day, when the Allies landed in France to fight Nazi Germany.

Up to three billion plastic pellets have already been released into the sea from the vessel.

Committing to the pilgrim's path has for centuries been a source of renewal for those willing to put their lives on hold and seek spiritual healing.

The key stories of the week, captured by photographers around the world.

The tourists had planned to sell the contraband on the internet.

G7 finance ministers said they came to an agreement on global tax reform, committing to a corporate tax rate of "at least 15%".

Many poor neighbourhoods aren't properly connected to Brazil's energy grid, making electricity hard to access and expensive to connect to.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo hundreds of children are still missing after being separated from families fleeing a volcano eruption

Mladic is appealing his 2017 conviction for war crimes during the conflict that tore through Bosnia in the 1990s.

Putin also criticised European, U.S. criticism of police crackdown on protesters in Russia and Belarus as hypocritical.

Moldova's new president, Maia Sandu, wants to move her country closer to the EU and away from Russia. Polls suggest that at least two thirds of Moldovans agree with her.

It follows Minsk's move to divert a Ryanair passenger plane and arrest dissident journalist Roman Protasevich last month.

The controversial project aims to deliver Russian gas to Germany.

Are journalists being censored and intimidated in Slovenia? The Prime Minister of the next country to hold the Presidency of the European Council has come under fire for waging a war on the media. Journalists, the authorities, and citizens tell their...

"We believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the highest penalty available."

As he begins what could be a five-year trial at the Hague on war crimes charges, Thaci's political career in Kosovo looks like it is finally over.

"If we succeed, we will have set up a new model of growth and prosperity that may inspire the rest of our international partners," argues MEP Pascal Canfin.

Belgium's government has proposed doubling the maximum sentence for rape after a 14-year-old victim killed herself just days after she was assaulted and filmed in Ghent.

Finance ministers from France, Germany, Italy and Spain say the time has come to reach a deal on an "international tax system fit for the 21st century".

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has been referred to the new European public prosecutor's office over an alleged conflict of interest in office.

A series of explosions have detonated at a military munitions factory near the central Serbian town of Čačak. No injuries have been reported.

"It is very important to come to parades like this, not only to party... but also to protest for our rights.”

Hong Kong had been the last place on Chinese soil where the June 4, 1989, event was publicly commemorated.

Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of plastic pollute the Mediterranean every year. France produces a lot of the region's plastic waste and recycles less than its neighbours. In Marseille, locals are not waiting for the government to make a change, they...

President Joe Biden has announced plans for the US to share an initial 25 million COVID-19 vaccine doses with the world.

Three people have reportedly been killed and at least 16 injured after an explosion at a crowded restaurant in Baghdad, Iraq.

The Norwegian government summoned the US embassy over a bombshell report accusing America of having spied on allies with Denmark's assistance.

Malaysian police have arrested French conspiracy theorist Rémy Daillet-Wiedemann, who was wanted over the kidnapping of a young girl in April.

Portuguese officials say they 'cannot understand the 'logic' of the UK's decision to downgrade the country from green to amber list.

French interior minister Gérald Darmanin said a crisis cell had been opened after the Air France flight which was coming from Chad was evacuated.

Faced with a long wait for a COVID vaccine, some younger Russians living in Finland have been travelling over the border for the Sputnik V jab.

Software failure is being blamed for the breakdown which put emergency phone numbers out of action and is suspected of causing at least three deaths.

Another victim of the pandemic last year, France's festival of dance is now back - and bursting with energy.

More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, the EU’s latest Eurobarometer survey found the majority of Europeans believe the health benefits of COVID restrictions outweigh the economic damage they have caused.

Schools in the UK are receiving free kits to monitor pollution levels, in a drive to clean up the air around schools.

A British court has ruled that the Home Office's decision to house asylum seekers and migrants in "squalid" barracks in Folkestone, Kent, was unlawful.

Denmark passes law to open asylum centres outside of Europe for migrant applicants.

In the video aired on Belarus state TV, regime critic Roman Protasevich claimed opposition protests were pointless and that he had been set up.

Police in North Macedonia say they have "suppressed" a criminal ring that was smuggling Middle Eastern migrants into the country from Greece.

Authorities suspect the fire may have been deliberately caused by arsonists.

Organisers revealed that thousands of volunteers who were expected to take part in the Olympic Games in Tokyo resigned in recent months.

European diplomats have expressed hope an agreement could soon be reached for Iran to comply with the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal.