From the Pirate Party to post-election alliances, here's our guide to the Czech general election.

Merkel's unusually partisan speech came during what was likely the last session of the Bundestag ahead of the September 26th election.

A 70-year-old woman had brought the winning scratch card to his shop to be validated.

"This trial won't bring back our daughters," one French couple directly affected by the terror attack told Euronews.

A massive fire raged through an overcrowded prison near Indonesia’s capital early on Wednesday.

The decision annulled parts of the penal code in Coahuila, a northern Mexican state bordering Texas.

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near Acapulco, Mexico on Tuesday night, causing buildings to rock and sway in Mexico City more than 300 km away.

"The epicentre of the cocaine market in Europe has shifted northwards," the Europol report, drawn up in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said.

World-renowned economists Joseph Stiglitz and Mario Monti give their insight into economic recovery in the post-pandemics years.

Pin-digestion? The prisoner had been complaining of stomach pain for days before doctors discovered the Nokia phone.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez strongly condemned the incident and has held an urgent meeting with a commission to combat hate crimes.

There is still a small window of opportunity for the international community to protect the most at risk and vulnerable through concrete measures. This should include maintaining and bolstering UNAMA’s human rights mandate when the Security Council...

The pre-trial hearing will take place on Guantanamo Bay, the Cuban island detention centre where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been held since his capture in 2003.

French police have arrested three suspects after armed robbers stole €10m worth of jewellery from a Paris store on Place Vendome.

The 60-year-old was arrested more than an hour into his equipment-free climb and placed in police custody at midday for "endangering the lives of others".

Mohammad Hasan Akhund will head the new Afghan government, while Abdul Ghani Baradar, the militant group's co-founder who took part in the US withdrawal negotiations, will be the new executive's number two.

Two activists spoke out against the court, accusing it of trying to “change the history of Kosovo’s war" by portraying the war as a conflict “between two aggressors" and not a war of liberation and independence.

"Nothing like this has ever happened before in Hungary," said Hungarian politics expert Róbert László.

The deal comes after Lithuania asked fellow EU member states for assistance against illegal migration.

The steel cable holding the lift broke as the men descended to the bottom of a mine shaft, emergency services said.

Ministers from the second-largest party in the ruling coalition resigned on Monday following the dismissal of Romania's Justice Minister last week.

Berlin says that a hacking network called "Ghostwriter" has been attempting to steal personal data from German MPs and spread disinformation.

There has been controversy recently over whether richer countries should administer booster shots with vaccine coverage so low in some poorer nations.

"Most of the people don't have anything to eat because their cash is in the banks, and the banks have locked their cash."

"The US’ lack of strategic thinking, its transactional diplomacy pursued under Trumpism, and the lasting effects of the events in Afghanistan has undoubtedly damaged America’s former "global leader" image beyond repair."

Two people were reported killed and eight injured following gunfire at a protest against the Taliban regime in Herat, the major city in western Afghanistan.

"What (Bolsonaro) wants is to prevent the disinformation and hate speech he and his supporters spread from continuing to be removed by platforms," said opposition politician Alessandro Molon.

Theodorakis, who died Thursday at 96, is lying in state in a cathedral chapel for three days ahead of his burial on the southern island of Crete.

His death was being investigated as a possible drug overdose, New York City police said.

Brussels and London have been at loggerheads over the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol — which both parliaments agreed to — since their divorce came into force on January 1.

The allegations have been dismissed by the companies named, which include Aldi, Lidl, Hugo Boss and C&A.

Russia's communications watchdog has blocked access to a voting website linked to jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny over its ties to "extremist organisations".

Pele has been in hospital for six days with an undisclosed health issue, according to Brazilian media.

The UN migration agency says it is concerned by “dire conditions” facing migrants who have been stranded for weeks at the border between Poland and Belarus.

Greece has appointed the former Cypriot EU commissioner Christos Stylianides to head the country's new climate crisis and civil protection ministry.

French film star Jean-Paul Belmondo has died at the age of 88

"I saw the wreckage, bodies, personal effects, I could not stop crying until I woke up screaming," said Ria van der Steen, who lost her father and stepmother in the crash

Olga Safronova was barred from competing in the Tokyo Olympics after criticising state authorities over the health of one of her horses.

One of the biggest treasure troves ever found in Denmark has been discovered in the southwest of the country.

The website allowing users to report abortion patients to Texas authorities went offline after hosting company GoDaddy said it violated its terms.

The websites have been hit by what researchers call a “major influence operation”, via reader comment sections on news stories.

Kolesnikova was a key figure of the Belarusian opposition in last year's disputed presidential election.

“Counter-terrorism on its own will not remove an entrenched threat”, said Blair, as he reflected on the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban.

"Of course we have to talk to them because they are the ones one needs to talk to now," said Merkel.

Located north of Kabul, it's the last province not controlled by Taliban fighters after they completed a rapid takeover of the country last month.

The UK faces new border constraints as it struggles with supply shortages, the fruit of the government's rejection of EU rules and overseas labour.

Germany's ambassador to China, Jan Hecker, has died, the German Foreign Office said in a statement.

A man fatally shot four people, including a mother and the 3-month-old baby she was holding.

It houses 40 cows and doesn't need human personnel to process the milk.

The UN chief has called for the "immediate release" of President Alpha Conde.