The EU must tear down bureaucratic barriers that prevents ICU professionals from working across member states and learning from one another, write professors Maurizio Cecconi and Elie Azoulay.

Tong Ying-kit, 24, was convicted of inciting secession and terrorism for his part during a pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong in July 2020.

Friday sees the start of track and field events at the Tokyo Olympics, with one medal up for grabs today in the men’s 10,000 meters.

Japan is facing a record-breaking surge in coronavirus infections as it hosts the Olympic Games in the capital.

Israel is leading the world in its vaccination drive, and soon those over 60 who are already vaccinated will be offered a booster jab.

A newly arrived Russian science lab briefly knocked the International Space Station out of position when it accidentally fired its thrusters.

Some people love it, others hate it, but one thing is certain, working from home might be a COVID-19 trend that is here to stay. Some experts are now calling on companies to create conditions for hybrid working models.

A German federal court has criticised how Facebook has moderated hate speech content that violates their policies.

Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked by Pope Francis over the sexual molestation of children and adults, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in the 1970s.

The group allegedly destroyed limestone formations with hammers to extract the molluscs, which can sell for as much as €200 per kilo on the black market.

The probe said that Maltese authorities had created a "culture of impunity" that led to her killing.

US President Joe Biden has spoken of his support for Belarusian pro-democracy forces after a White House meeting with the country's main opposition leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

It will connect Dubrovnik with the rest of the country and allow north-south travellers to avoid going through Bosnia.

Poland's National Broadcasting Council has suspended the extension of the licence of the independent TVN24 television channel prompting fears over independent media in the country.

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The hackers, both from Belarus, connected electronic devices to cash machines to get them to release thousands of euros.

Two cars fo the train derailed when the train hit the truck in Kolbaskowo, a village on Poland’s border with Germany.

France's Europe Minister blasted the UK's decision to keep a 10-day quarantine for French travellers as "excessive and frankly incomprehensible from a health point of view."

Tokyo reported 3,177 new cases on Wednesday, up from 2,848 on Tuesday, setting an all-time high and exceeding 3,000 for the first time.

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The offending poster portrays Macron in the uniform of Nazi leader Hitler, with a small moustache, a lock on his forehead and the acronym of the presidential movement LREM turned into a swastika. A message reads: "Obey, get vaccinated."

The man who carried out the burglary left the Chaumet shop near the Champs-Elysées on an electric sccoter.

A woman has been convicted of using "sleight of hand" to steal diamonds worth around €4.9 million from a high-profile London jeweler in 2016.

A man on an electric scooter had burst into the shop carrying a handgun, police said.

A Syrian doctor has been charged in Germany with crimes against humanity for allegedly torturing people in military hospitals in his homeland.

Hungary's LGBT vote isn't democracy but the tyranny of the majority, writes Maria Sjödin.

Attempts to play down or deny what happened at Srebrenica in 1995 prompted Bosnia's foreign peace envoy to last week pass the nation's first law prohibiting genocide denial.

German politicians have warned that anti-mask demonstrators could be exploiting the country's flood-damaged areas and spreading disinformation.

An infant child was found alive in a garbage bag by passers-by near the French city of Lyon.

Renewables accounted for significantly more electricity generated in the first six months of this year compared with the first half of 2019.

A Turkish-born American has reportedly surrendered to police over a secret messaging app he owns, which has been linked to Turkey's failed 2016 military coup.

A German court has ruled that women should be allowed to take part in Fischertag, a traditional fishing event in the Bavarian town of Memmingen.

Lithuania's border guard service said it detained 171 people caught illegally crossing from Belarus into Lithuania on Tuesday night, the largest number in a single day in 2021 and bringing the total number of migrants detained so far this year to 3,0...

Paris carried out 193 nuclear tests in French Polynesia between 1966 and 1996 as part of its nuclear weapons development programme.

Police in Russia raided the home of the chief editor of an investigative media outlet that was recently designated as a “foreign agent,” the latest step by authorities to raise pressure on independent media ahead of the country's September parlia...

Gitenstein, 74, is a lawyer who served as the US ambassador to Romania from 2009 to 2012.

It's the deadliest clash since the end of last year's war between the two countries in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Today at the Olympics: Europeans make a splash in rowing

Ecuadorian authorities say Assange’s naturalization letter had multiple inconsistencies, different signatures, the possible alteration of documents and unpaid fees, among other issues.

Slipknot would become one of the bands credited with keeping hard rock alive and vital in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with grunge-era bands aging and fading.

The US congressional panel investigating the deadly Capitol insurrection opened with emotional testimonies from police officers who responded to the assault.

A former Iranian official will face trial in Sweden over his suspected role in mass executions of political prisoners during the Iran-Iraq war.

A Brussels spokesperson has told Euronews: “In order to provide the necessary space to reflect on these issues and find durable solutions to the implementation of the Protocol, we have decided, at this stage, not to move to the next stage of the in...

Russia’s health officials have given a go-ahead to test a combination of the Oxford-AstraZeneca and the Sputnik V vaccines.

Nature has taken over much of the 130-year-old site.

Bosnian Serb politicians have pledged to block decision-making in the country’s institutions in protest over a recent move by a top international envoy to outlaw genocide denial.

The first person to be tried under Hong Kong's sweeping national security law was found guilty of secessionism and terrorism.

Instead of fixing the world we live in, we may simply have to learn to adapt to it.

An explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies in Germany has killed at least five people.

'Our government should be doing this', say firefighters, as blaze rages.