An official from the state electric company Tavanir said the Bushehr plant shutdown began on Saturday and would last "for three to four days.” Without elaborating, he said that power outages could result.

The Qatari Prime Minister said the country is negotiating to buy one million doses to immunise fans who were not able to get a jab at home prior to the World Cup.

Alexander Popov was arrested on Saturday after the body of Catherine Serou, 34, was found in a wooded area near the city of Nizhny Novgorod.

The city council wants to light up the Allianz Arena in rainbow colours to protest anti-LGBT legislation passed in Hungary last week.

Josep Borrell repeated his call for Lebanon to form a new government as a matter of urgency a day after threatening EU sanctions if "obstruction" continued.

Goals by Xherdan Shaqiri and Haris Seferovic gave Switzerland a fighting chance of making it through to the knockout stage while Turkey scored its first and only goal of the contest.

The team marked its 11th straight win in the European Championship and will now play the second-place team from Group C at Wembley Stadium in London.

Astronauts working on the International Space Station have made their second attempt in a week at installing powerful new solar arrays.

The regional elections in France were regarded by some as a testing ground for next year's presidential election.

The supreme pontiff used his Sunday address to call for places of worship to be used as humanitarian shelters amid escalating violence in the country.

Officials from the signatory states of the 2015 nuclear deal have exchanged paperwork and will shortly be returning to their home countries for a final decision, Iran's deputy said on Sunday.

Anti-government protesters have taken to the streets in cities across Brazil as the nation's confirmed death toll from COVID-19 soared past half a million.

Anatoly Antonov had been recalled to Moscow for consultations in March after Joe Biden labelled Vladimir Putin as "a killer" in an explosive interview.

The UN is focusing on greater inclusion for World Refugee Day. Euronews spoke to a Syrian charity worker in the UK on how this could be achieved.

Poland still has a chance to advance in Group F after a second-half equalizer in a game that also set a new record for youngest player on the pitch at the European Championship.

About 100 people descended on Maljevac, Croatia to call for an end to pushbacks and the dissolution of EU border agency Frontex.

Protesters in Madrid end a month-long campaign to demand recognition for the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as tensions rise between Morocco and Spain

Firefighters were battling a huge blaze at the Moscow warehouse on Saturday, which is said to have covered at least 150 square metres.

A year ago Poland's LGBT community faced a backlash from ruling conservative politicians, local communities and the church.

Portugal's Rúben Dias and Raphaël Guerreiro both scored own-goals to put the Germans ahead 2-1 at halftime.

A man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of murdering the 34-year-old former marine, who moved to the country in 2019.

A new museum dedicated to German civilians forced to flee eastern Europe at the end of World War II opens next week after decades of wrenching debate.

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

The opening ceremony on July 23rd is just over a month away, and many Japanese remain sceptical about holding the games amidst a global pandemic.

The human rights organization says Judge Ebrahim Raisi should be investigated for his part in the 1988 mass killings of political prisoners in Iran.

The United Nations has adopted a resolution that calls for a halt to arms sales to Myanmar in response to a violent post-coup crackdown by the military

About 10,000 people have descended on England's first major festival since the pandemic began amid concerns over a rise in Delta variant infections.

The EU's foreign policy chief has castigated Lebanese politicians for not yet having formed a new cabinet since the August 2020 Beirut Port explosion as the country teeters on the brink of financial collapse.

A court in Hong Kong has denied bail to two Apple Daily newspaper executives over allegations of endangering national security.

The Palestinian Authority has cancelled a deal with Israel to receive about one million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines saying the doses are about to expire.

Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi is set to become the first serving Iranian president sanctioned by the US before even entering office.

Both team had chances to score at Wembley Stadium. England defender John Stones hit the post with a header. Scotland forward Lyndon Dykes then had a shot cleared off the line

Guterres seeing building trust as key to tackling some of the world's biggest issues including the coronavirus pandemic and climate change

Montenegrin lawmakers on Thursday ousted a pro-Serb government minister who denied the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica was genocide.

Stefan Löfven has been given an ultimatum: abandon his plans to allow landlords to set their own rents, or face a vote of no confidence.

The Alata family was torn apart once when their father was killed in Syria. Now they are being put to the test once more as half of the family's refugee status in Denmark is being revoked. Where can they go from here?

Fans from abroad were banned several months ago, and organisers are to announce early next week if some local fans should be allowed.

"I was truly startled when our team discovered that, in at least eight European countries, activists are providing women with a ‘treatment’ based on pseudo-science under the nose of regulators."

The boat was approaching the shore of Órzola on the island of Lanzarote on Thursday night when it flipped a few metres from land, throwing the passengers into the water

The countries ahead on vaccinations, relatively speaking, are those outside the EU, like Serbia and the UK. Hungary is the exception, but Budapest has bought doses from Russia and China to boost its stocks.

Montenegro's parliament voted to sack the country's justice minister for expressing doubts about the genocide in Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.

The far-right could capture the presidency of at least one French region for the first time, less than one year before France's presidential election.

He led Armenia's Velvet Revolution in 2018, now some voters won't even shake his hand. What happened to Armenia's Nikol Pashinyan?

Fewer than 50 per cent of the electorate took part in a vote that embattled Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hoped would win him a "mandate of steel".

Kim’s statement indicates he’ll likely push to strength his nuclear arsenal and increase pressure on Washington to give up what North Korea considers a hostile U.S. policy.

Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, said conflict and the impact of climate change were among the leading sources of new movements of refugees and internally displaced people in 2020.

Biden signed into law a bill to make Juneteenth, or June 19, the 12th federal holiday.

Denmark fans rose en masse at 9.59 to give a minute's applause for the midfielder, who collapsed during a game last week and is recovering in hospital. The Belgians, who were in the middle of an attack, stopped to join the applause.

Poots had been leader of the party for less than a month.

Kaunda was the founding father of African nationalism, fought white minority rule across southern Africa, and was a leading member of the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War.