The CGT union has warned of "a health catastrophe" should medical staff no longer be allowed to work

The Czech Republic has 54.6% of its population fully vaccinated, below the EU average of 60.3%.

After the #MeToo movement swept China, authorities responded with legal changes that activists and legal experts say have not yet led to real change on the ground.

The Chinese ambassador was due to attend a reception in the House of Commons organised by a cross-party parliamentary group on China.

It wasn't clear if the prosecutor's removal would have any impact on the case, or if he was officially removed before he made the request to the judge to charge the prime minister.

Police violence and racism: Macron outlines French plan for greater transparency over abuses

The booster shots, which will be rolled out beginning next week, were approved a day after the government also backed plans to offer one vaccine dose to 12-15 year olds.

Frans Timmermans said the costs of not transitioning economies to renewable energies are not measured in economic terms, but in 'human terms'.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus appealed again for drug companies to prioritise the UN-backed COVAX initiative designed to share vaccines globally.

The star item is a brick from Dismaland, the British artist's 2015 parody of Disney theme parks which was dismantled after its creation.

Moscow has been increasing the pressure on big tech companies, accusing them of not properly moderating their content ahead of this month's parliamentary elections.

The pope met visited a Roma settlement where he urged greater integration with Slovak society, the day after atoning for Christian complicity in the Holocaust.

Fifteen years after the case was first lodged, during which the founder died, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled Russian courts had not had a strong enough case to ban radical anti-Putin group the National Bolshevik Party.

Police are appealing for information after a foil balloon caused a power outage around the eastern city of Dresden.

Only 17% of people in the Faroe Islands consume whale or dolphin meat - so why are thousands of animals still dying?

PM Pedro Sánchez said that his government intends to scrap a 7% tax on power generation, among other measures.

The Kremlin has stated that Putin has tested negative for the virus but will be self-isolating for a "certain period".

The crackdown in Belarus may have stopped public dissent, but as these hackers suggest, it could be just driving it underground.

Germany's justice ministry said it had so far paid out nearly €860,000 in 249 cases.

"While lying prone on the snowy ground with his hands cuffed behind his back, officers had fired bullets either side of his head to get him to reveal information on the location of certain smuggled merchandise."

Chemours, a spin-off from DuPont - which was featured in the Hollywood film Dark Waters - is being sued in the EU Court of Justice.

Haim Geron, a former senior official at Israel’s ministry of communications, and his wife were killed in the crash on Monday.

Timothy Garton Ash had accused Orban of having his cake and eating it in terms of Hungary's relationship with the EU.

Nearly 480,000 flights took last month in the EU, compared to 696,000 in August 2019.

The government says the "revised timetable will give businesses more time to adjust to new processes". Its critics argue post-Brexit red tape issues need resolving.

Germans are the most pessimistic of a dozen EU countries surveyed, with 52% seeing their nation as a declining power.

Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia on Monday expressed concerns about the war games, saying Russia has not been transparent about them.

Johnson is expected to say that mask-wearing, work-from-home advice and social distancing rules that were lifted in July could return if cases climb further.

Antony Blinken hit back saying the Trump administration had left Biden with a deadline for withdrawal, not a plan.

After Serbia, Merkel travelled to Albania where she meet the leaders of five other Western Balkan states that are striving for EU membership.

Croatia is planning to begin using the Euro as its currency on the 1st of July 2023. According to a recent study by the Croatian National Bank, 45% of people in the Western Balkan nation say they support the move.

Antonio Guterres told a donor conference in Geneva the poverty rate is "spiraling", basic public services are nearing collapse, and a severe drought is jeopardising the upcoming harvest.

The left-wing opposition in Norway has won the country's general election, according to projections released as polls closed on Monday.

Local authorities have said that the behaviour is "highly reprehensible and extremely inappropriate".

False claims have suggested that citizens need a COVID-19 health pass to vote in this month's federal election.

Closed for a year and a half due to the pandemic, the feathered cabaret will reopen on September 16, two days before its 75th anniversary.

Exports stopped because a new law in Russia meant French producers had to remove "champagne" from their bottles and replace it with "sparkling wine".

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet cited "multiple" allegations of the Taliban seeking out former government officials and their relatives, who then turn up dead.

Europe is hoping to retain the Ryder Cup against the United States at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin later this month.

The next available winter games to bid for are in 2030

A former security aide to President Emmanuel Macron has gone on trial on a dozen charges, including voluntary violence, illegally wearing a police badge, and carrying a weapon.

Judges in Amsterdam said the legal relationship between Uber and its drivers has "all the characteristics of an employment contract".

The agreement in 2015 saw world powers promise to end international sanctions in return for Tehran ending some of its nuclear work. But the US, while under President Donald Trump, decided to pull out of the deal in 2018,

Some 56% of Greece’s residents have been fully vaccinated, while the average rate in the EU is just over 60%.

Qatar's foreign minister was in Kabul on Sunday, becoming the first high-ranking government official to meet the interim Taliban government in Afghanistan.

If she's successful she'd be France's first female president

Merkel's CDU-CSU bloc has been languishing in the polls, currently projected to secure around 21% of the vote— a historically low level.

The US had used the complex to hold Taliban fighters and was nicknamed Guantanamo.

Britain has ordered 100 million doses of Valneva's vaccine candidate, VLA2001, and had an option to secure an additional 90 million doses.

A firefighter lost his life earlier this week.