Several influential Bitcoin accounts on Weibo have been blocked in recent days as Beijing escalates its crackdown on cryptocurrency trading.

Biden first travels to Britain to attend the G7 summit and then Brussels for a NATO summit. He will cap off his week with a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva.

It takes the number of opposition pre-candidates for the Nov. 7 elections detained in the past week to four.

The Bełchatów power plant releases more than 30 million tonnes of CO2 a year but under the Lodz region's new plans, could see its operations curbed by 80 per cent by 2030.

The Russian sports federation said Ukraine's Euro 2020 kit went against UEFA guidelines, while Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiyy has come out in support of the design.

The move is seen as confirming the British unionist party's return to its traditionalist roots. It comes as the EU warns the UK to respect Brexit trade obligations.

The news will be welcome to workers coming from the United Kingdom, who would otherwise have faced a 14-day quarantine period on arrival in Germany.

The new body will be tasked with investigating major cases financial and banking cases, as well as the alleged failures of the state's own anti-corruption institutions.

Macron, who was on a visit to a Drôme hospitality school, was struck in the face while shaking hands with a member of the public.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed into effect a law tightening sanctions against protesters taking part in unauthorised rallies and increasing penalties for "extremism".

The body of 33-year-old Sarah Everard was found in Ashford, Kent on March 10 a week after she disappeared in south London.

UN judges upheld Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladić's life sentence for war crimes on Tuesday.

US health officials have approved the first drug that they say may help slow Alzheimer's disease. Many experts are unconvinced.

Stamp auction: British Guiana One-Cent Magenta stamp goes under the hammer

Police say four members of a Canadian Muslim family were killed after the driver of a pick-up truck deliberately mounted the pavement in London on Sunday.

The verdict in Mladić's appeal case will effectively conclude UN prosecutions for crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian War.

Discipline and determination result in another great day for Japan at the Judo World Championships in the Hungarian capital Budapest.

More than 6,700 passports were issued by Cyprus over its investment-for-citizenship programme's 13-year run but over half of them were issued not to the investors themselves but to family members or top company executives.

The operation to seize cryptocurrency paid to the Russia-based hacker group is the first of its kind to be undertaken by a specialised ransomware task force created by the Biden administration Justice Department.

Riad Salameh, who has been at the helm of the Banque du Liban for close to 30 years and is now at the centre of the country's financial crisis, is being investigated by both Swiss and French authorities.

Trade unions say plans to increase the women's retirement age in Switzerland will deepen inequalities in the country, where women earn on average 20 percent less than men.

It raises questions about whether the agency should have had its budget and responsibilities expanded to such an extent.

"The honest truth is the best way for us to get our freedoms back... is for everybody to come forward and get the jab."

“There is no justifiable economic need to continue to break our promise to the world’s most marginalised people."

"We are with the Belarusians who are fighting for freedom, fighting for the rule of law, fighting for democracy,"

Stefan Yanev, a close ally of President Rumen Radev, is currently serving as Bulgaria's interim prime minister until next month's elections.

Kent County Council has given an ultimatum of June 17 before it pushes for judicial review, saying its services dealing with lone migrants have reached "breaking point".

Artin was 18-months-old when he and four family members died crossing the English Channel, police say.

Denmark approved amendments to the legislation on Thursday - so will changes take effect straight away? What has been the response?

"While it's true that an intellectual property waiver alone won’t fix shortages, it will be a crucial first step in ramping up the dispensation of vaccines."

More than 24,000 plaintiffs in 141 different countries have sued the Biden administration over their 'Diversity Visa' applications.

Google said it had agreed on changes to improve its online ad market after being fined by France's competition watchdog.

Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 but Kyiv considers the move to have been illegal. The peninsula is regarded as occupied Ukrainian territory by the majority of governments worldwide.

A Dutch court is due to start hearing evidence in the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over war-torn Ukraine in 2014.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party will have to rely on votes from its allies in the Workers Party and Green Party, but together they were expected to capture between 265 and 292 seats in the 500-seat chamber.

Two express trains collided in southern Pakistan early Monday. According to railway officials, about 1,100 passengers were on board the two trains.

Israeli police arrested 23-year-old Muna al-Kurd who has led protests against attempts by Jewish settlers to evict Palestinian families from their homes. She was later released.

Pope Francis expressed his pain over the discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous students.

It comes as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact Peru where it has exacerbated inequalities.

Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born on Friday, June 4 in Santa Barbara, California.

A thick layer of slime has engulfed boats moored in the Sea of Marmara, to the south of Istanbul. Warm water temperatures and industrial waste have been blamed for this record build up of algae

The Fudan University campus is being built with a €1.3 billion loan from China despite local opposition.

In a wide-ranging interview with Euronews, EU envoy Miroslav Lajcak also said that it is up to the states of the Western Balkans to prove that they will be functioning and effective members of the European family.

At least 11 people were killed, including three children, after a minivan was hit by a roadside bomb in northwest Afghanistan, according to an Afghan official.

The building was put up on land belonging to a Bosniac Muslim woman without her permission, and authorities spent years ignoring her request to remove it

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.