The authoritarian leader says he is backing out of a plan to run for vice president in next year’s elections and will retire from politics after his term ends.

Tens of millions of Americans have refused to get vaccinated, allowing the highly contagious delta variant to tear through the country.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes around each October to highlight the need to raise funds to battle an illness that kills more than 680,000 people every year.

Some good news for mink, at last.

The man said he had found the shell while hiking in Switzerland and was taking it home as a souvenir.

Kyiv has condemned the Russian gas company Gazprom for halting the transit of natural gas to Hungary via Ukraine.

In the last few years, Italy's organised crime groups have become more business-oriented, helping cash-strapped companies to infiltrate the legal economy and make more money.

Natural gas prices have surged in Europe due to both supply and demand problems.

Slovenia was the sole EU member state that failed to name two prosecutors to join the European Public Prosecutor's Office.

Local residents are advised to say and wear face masks and eye protection to protect themselves from potentially toxic gas and heavy falls of volcanic ash

Here's a round-up of COVID-related news from around Europe.

A KGB officer and a man, believed to be a supporter of Belarus' opposition movement, died in the gunfight on Tuesday.

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Hungary and other states hostile to migrants and refugees are waiting to see whether the EU will act as Lithuania flaunts European law.

The French government said earlier this week it intends to preserve "the possibility" of using the COVID health pass until summer 2022.

Inflation in the Euro area reached 3.4% in September, its highest level since 2008, boosted by a jolting 17.4% increase in energy prices.

Romania has suffered three deadly hospital fires in less than a year.

The country has struggled to come to terms with the role that Ukrainians played in the murder of Jews during the Nazi occupation.

"North Sea Link is a truly remarkable feat of engineering."

It comes on the back of two other deadly hospital fires within the last year in Romania, raising concerns about the country’s ageing hospital infrastructure.

The Green League, the party of Finland's interior minister, Maria Ohisalo, voted on the issue during a virtual conference earlier this month.

Experts say Ukraine has budget problems, a war with pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country and many poor people to take care of. So is now a good time to bid for an Olympics?

European citizens now need a valid passport to enter the UK as post-Brexit rules enter into force on Friday.

While it is unclear whether the Nord Stream 2 pipeline will ever start operating, its very appearance signals Moscow’s malign intentions vis-à-vis Ukraine. The West should step up efforts to help Kyiv guard its fundamental security interests and t...

The south Caucasus nation's ex-leader, detained upon his return from exile, has called for people to vote against the ruling party in this weekend's local elections.

In what may appear as a provocation, North Korea said it had test-fired a new anti-aircraft missile just hours before an emergency meeting at the UN Security Council was due to address Pyongyang's recent weapons firings.

Dozens of sportswomen have left Afghanistan fearing for their future and a new campaign called 'Together Unbreakable' is aiming to help them make a new start.

The battle in Congress continues on how to raise the government's borrowing cap before the United States risks a potentially catastrophic default.

Nearly half a million people in the UK could have to decide between paying their energy bill or food as natural gas prices soar.

Dobrev led the vote to decide who will take on Viktor Orban in next year's presidential election.

OVD-Info joins the Mediazona website and the human-rights project Zona Prava on Russia's blacklist of critical media organisations.

Police data show Albania has seen a rise in arrests for illegal entry this year, as numbers of migrants trying to reach Albania have skyrocketed.

"We have massive support from the people and this is what inspires us to move forward." - Natalia Gavrilița, Prime Minister of Moldova.

Armenia's former minister of defence has been detained on suspicion of abuse of power, fraud and embezzlement.

Satellite imagery showed a D-shaped tongue of molten rock building up on the island's western shore measured 338 hectares by the end of Wednesday.

Prosecutors had said that Domenico Lucano had facilitated marriages for immigrant women to defend his political position.

UK's CBI warns staff shortages could last for two years, as businesses call for more visas to be given to low-skilled workers.

The head of the Slovenian STA news agency has said that he "cannot accept the conditions imposed" by the country's government.

As talks with the International Monetary Fund stall, is it a good idea for China to fill Ukraine's funding vacuum?

Serbia refuses to recognise its former province, Kosovo, as a sovereign nation which hinders both their access to the European Union.

The city's fire service said dozens of first responders were involved in an operation to rescue a group of rowers who were surprised by the twister on Wednesday.

Police are investigating why the 240-metre-high turbine collapsed just hours before it was due to be officially inaugurated.

Police officer Wayne Couzens, who raped and murdered 33-year-old Sarah Everard in London in March, has been sentenced to life in prison.

Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia ratcheted up earlier this month when Kosovo demanded, in a reciprocal move, that Serbian cars crossing the border buy temporary licence plates.

Has the Swiss same-sex marriage vote opened up a new "Iron Curtain" when it comes to LGBT rights in Europe?

"Voters handed the real power to two smaller parties, the Greens (Die Grünen) and the liberal FDP, who are now guaranteed to be part of almost any possible coalition."

Sarkozy, 66, who denied any wrongdoing, was not in court to face the ruling. His lawyer has confirmed that he will appeal.

As a country deeply entrenched in its Catholic roots, euthanasia – a practice condemned by the Church’s teaching – has long been a deeply controversial topic.

Officials said at least five of the dead in the riot at Litoral penitentiary in Guayaquil were beheaded.

Irmgard Furchner, who was between 18 and 19 years old at the time of the events and lives in a home for the elderly near Hamburg, is to be tried for "complicity in murder in more than 10,000 cases", according to the prosecution.