The German military says a firefight broke out early on Monday between Afghan security forces and “unknown attackers”. One Afghan security officer was killed and three were wounded.

The French league match was halted when Marseille players refused to restart after chaotic and violent scenes, ignited when Dimitri Payet threw back into the stand a plastic bottle which had been hurled at him.

Tropical Storm Henri made landfall in Rhode Island. Just prior, it was packing maximum sustained winds of nearly 100 kilometres per hour .

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that his country had already taken in enough refugees from Afghanistan.

Angela Merkel said she supported further peace talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine during her "farewell visit" to Kyiv.

Baker is the sixth woman and first Black woman to receive the honour.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announced that he would resign in November to allow his successor to prepare for the 2022 elections.

The Iranian president met Sunday with Japan's foreign minister in the capital of Tehran and the two discussed de-escalation of tensions in the region, Iranian news agencies reported.

The surveillance programme is meant to measure the antibody levels in people before and after a COVID-19 infection.

"The abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours," former UK PM Tony Blair wrote.

At least eight people, including children, died and three were missing after mudslides and flooding, said Cuitláhuac García, governor of Mexico's Veracruz state.

Israel's military bombed Palestinian militant weapons sites in the Gaza Strip early on Sunday.

“This resettlement of vulnerable people is of utmost importance,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. “It is our moral duty.”

The protesters are angry at the Taliban takeover and the fast western withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Potential Islamic State threats against Americans in Afghanistan are forcing the U.S. military to develop new ways to get evacuees to the airport in Kabul, a US official told AP.

Angela Merkel has led Germany for the past 16 years and now is campaigning for the person she hopes will become her successor.

Euronews spoke with several Afghan citizens in Kabul this week as well as Taliban fighters.

Parts of the Northeastern United States could begin to feel the effects of Tropical Storm Henri as soon as late Saturday, as the system that is expected to become a hurricane by the end of the day barrels toward the region.

Sydney has extended its two-month lockdown for another month while Cuba releases two home-grown vaccines. Here's a look at the COVID-19 pandemic around the world.

Western countries are conducting a dangerous evacuation operation at the Kabul airport as they rushed to get people out of the country before US troops leave on August 31.

Hunger and destitution ends in fighting over aid distribution after last week's deadly earthquake in Haiti.

French laboratories and pharmacies tested a record 5.7 million people in a week.

Thousands continue to wait outside Kabul International Airport for a chance to flee the country nearly a week after the Taliban gained control of Afghanistan.

US President Joe Biden said the US mission was to evacuate Americans and their allies from Afghanistan.

China will now allow couples to legally have a third child as it seeks to hold off a demographic crisis.

The army personnel will be deployed to help with logistics as the city of 10 million people asks residents to “stay put” for two weeks.

To get an idea of how Biden's words and actions have gone down in the US, Euronews spoke to its stateside reporter Ray Suarez.

"Whoever I talk to is not optimistic at all. There is no hope for a better future under Taliban control."

Euronews' Masoud Imani Kalesar looks at the small print in Afghanistan's recent history to give us some ways to understand the recent developments.

Turkey will not become Europe's 'refugee warehouse', said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

A Polish humanitarian group has demanded the group, which includes a teenage girl and several sick people, be allowed to claim asylum in their country.

Facebook said this week it had removed over three dozen pages that were spreading online misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.

The sole survivor so far told Spain's Maritime rescue services the boat had left Africa last week carrying 53 people.

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The European Union will accept COVID-19 digital certificates from North Macedonia, Turkey, and Ukraine from Friday.

“I would like to go back to normal, to visit the city and enjoy the summer, but I understand that it is dangerous," Krystsina Tsimanouskaya told Euronews.

Austrian officials have charged a 25-year-old Chechen man with terrorist offenses, linked to the Vienna attack in November.

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.

The foreign secretary, on holiday as the Taliban closed on Kabul, is accused of failing to intervene to try to rescue Afghans who had worked for the British.

"Instead of engaging in pre-emptive panic, the EU should ensure member states ... actually implement existing asylum laws and work together to host refugees."

Israel has reached an agreement with Qatar for the Gulf Arab country to resume aid payments to thousands of families in the Gaza Strip, a step aimed at easing tensions with the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory in the wake of an 11-day war in May.

Three people have been killed and dozens injured after a bomb exploded in Punjab province of Pakistan.

NATO's former deputy assistant secretary-general Jamie Shea says "NATO is going to have to anticipate eventually a shockwave of more terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe."

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.

The German Chancellor met the Russian President in Moscow on the first anniversary of the Kremlin critic's poisoning.

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.