From his prison cell, where he is spending the first anniversary of his poisoning, Navalny wrote that corruption is "almost invariably one of the main causes of the global challenges that face the west".

The ban will start Oct. 1 and is the result of requests from banking partners and companies that handle financial transactions, a spokesperson said.

Merkel's visit to Putin comes as the chancellor is nearing the end of her almost 16-year-long leadership of Germany.

Experts fear Afghans who worked for NATO countries will be subjected to "torture and execution".

After meeting with his Libyan counterpart in Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia was ready to withdraw its troops from the country, heeding a call from the UN.

The British Ministry of Defense agreed today to begin talks with the Nepalese Embassy over pensions for Gurkha veterans of the British Army .

Raffaele Imperiale has been wanted by Italian police since two stolen Van Goghs, thought to have been bought with criminal cash, were found in a farmhouse he owned outside Naples.

"Once the West begins to pressure the new regime in Kabul, it is very likely that the Taliban will allow al-Qaeda to set up a firm presence in the country again. Then it is just a matter of time before we see attacks emanating outwards."

Afghans fearing for their lives under Taliban rule continue to look for ways out of their home country. Many cross the border into Pakistan while anxious traders at the checkpoint worry about insecurity

"Everyone is vulnerable in the country where the rate of unemployment is 60% and the only source of employment has also come to a standstill," says Ashraf Haidari.

Suspect surrenders to police after bomb threat near US Capitol

A Dutch journalist was the target of a Molotov cocktail attack in the northern city of Groningen, police said.

Lithuanian authorities have launched multiple investigations following the death of 16 people found to have consumed homemade alcohol.

The world held its breath 30 years ago when a group of senior Communist officials attempted to oust Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and flooded Moscow with tanks. The August coup collapsed after just three days and precipitated the breakup of the Sov...

A teenage suspect has been arrested in Sweden after a man was stabbed and seriously injured at a school in Eslöv.

The rave was shut down on Thursday after several controversies and amid anger from locals.

Another artwork that "looks too much like the original" in another corner of the country has caused a bit of tension.

The local prosecutor said that "it was a motorbike with two people armed with at least one assault rifle — Kalashnikov type — who fired (...) in the street."

The Latvian government is planning to make vaccination compulsory for many professions and is debating whether to allow employers to fire workers who refuse to be vaccinated. A vote on the issue could come this week.

Poland has deployed hundreds of troops and is laying barbed wire along its border with Belarus to stop the arrival of migrants seeking to enter the country.

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The incidence rate in Guadeloupe now stands at more than 1,900 infections per 100,000 population.

The seven pro-democracy activists were in court on Thursday charged with organising and inciting others to take part in an unauthorised assembly held in 2019.

The Taliban have been conducting "targeted door-to-door visits" of individuals they want to apprehend and their family members, a UN report says, despite their promise not to seek revenge on opponents.

The quake followed by a tropical storm wiped out many of the sources of food and income that many depend on for survival in Haiti, already struggling with COVID-19, gang violence and assassination of its president.

Euronews spoke to Afghan journalist Fazel Qazizai, who has years of experience covering the Taliban’s moves in the country

One man was killed and another injured when a ferry smashed into a small boat entering the port of the Spanish island of Ibiza.

Authorities in Gibraltar seized 2.6 metric tons of cannabis resin with a street value of €15 million after a high-speed chase at sea.

The drama has sparked fears about whether the insurgents will govern Afghanistan in the manner they claim.

Many ruling Conservative Party MPs castigated the government over the chaotic events in Afghanistan, but the prime minister insisted the UK had no choice but to withdraw its troops.

The Netherlands had scheduled two charter flights to land in Kabul earlier this week, but both were cancelled due to unsafe landing conditions following the Taliban's takeover of the country..

MPs approved the border fence earlier this month after a surge in the number of migrants arriving at Lithuania's frontier from Belarus.

A former Afghan employee of the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL) told Euronews she is hiding in her basement over fears the Taliban may kill her for being a "traitor".

Belarus police searched and detained employees of the independent news agency belaPAN in an escalating crackdown on the media.

Pakistan's Ambassador to the European Union, Zaheer A Janjua, spoke to Euronews on the regional impact of a Taliban administration, and the accusation, increasingly made by the former Afghan government, that Pakistan has funded the militant group.

"This bothers and annoys me," said Germany's health minister Jens Spahn. "But it does not lead to me turning away from my belief or the church."

Hundreds of firefighters have been deployed to tackle the blaze which has now burnt through 5,000 hectares.

Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech will stand trial after being formally indicted for the 2017 murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has challenged Twitter to delete his own account after the platform labeled several national media outlets as "state-affiliated".

"We cannot tolerate this bold provocation," said Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė

Euronews rounds up the latest weather dangers across the continent.

Greece’s fire department said 370 firefighters, including 143 from Poland, were deployed at the Vilia fire Wednesday, along with 130 vehicles, eight helicopters and three planes.

“Vaccination is a simple but profound way of promoting the common good and caring for each other, especially the most vulnerable," Pope Francis said in a new video promoting COVID-19 vaccines.

An anti-Taliban protest was violently broken up in the east on Wednesday, while Western evacuations continued from Kabul. Afghanistan's ousted President Ghani has addressed his people from the United Arab Emirates.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will introduce the scheme to MPs on Wednesday but it has already been criticised for not going fr enough by multiple lawmakers.

Some former soldiers in the West have questioned the purpose of the enormous military sacrifices in the 20-year campaign, as troop withdrawals enabled the Taliban to take control.

"An attack on LGBTIQ people is never just that. It always coincides with broader implications for human rights and democracy more broadly," writes Paul Jansen from OutRight Action International.

It comes amid concern the swift Taliban takeover of the country will reverse progress made over the last two decades.

Miles Routledge is no longer in Afghanistan after he was able to get a space on a British army flight, along with hundreds of others fleeing the country.

Poland has told the European Union that it will shut down a chamber at its Supreme Court devoted to disciplining judges, which the EU's top court said was illegal.