Just 14% of Ukraine's population has been vaccinated. With COVID infections increasingly sharply, there are fears of a tough winter ahead.

A report released on Tuesday is expected to shed light on sex abuse of thousands of children in France’s Catholic Church over the past seven decades.

An actress and director are preparing to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, as Russia looks to score symbolic points against US competitors.

Australia’s prime minister said tourists won’t be welcomed back until next year, with skilled migrants and students set to be given higher priority for entry.

Russia has reported a record number of COVID-19 deaths for four of the past six days, with 883 fatalities and 25,781 new cases recorded over the past 24 hours, according to the country's national coronavirus task force.

Ten and a half million Czech citizens will head up to the polls this Friday for the parliamentary elections.

Iraqis will vote in snap parliamentary elections this Sunday, for the first time since protests rocked the country in 2019. SIPRI's Shivan Fazil and Dylan O'Driscoll explain what's at stake - and why the new government will have no time to lose.

AUR leader George Simion says his MPs were told that relatives and allies could be appointed to directorships of state energy companies if they abstained from voting.

Authorities said that three people had been rescued and 11 bodies recovered after a sailboat was reported west of Cabrera.

Japan elects former diplomat Fumio Kishida as its new Prime Minister in a parliamentary vote on Monday.

Andrej Babis began life as an anti-corruption crusader. So what happened?

MS5 leader Guiseppe Conte declined to form an alliance with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) in Rome. Exit polls put the PD in the lead.

The international community must speak up after the recent presidential power-grab in Tunisia, argues Adnen Hasnaoui, president of the Maghreb Institute for Sustainable Development.

The 'climate-friendly' jet fuel is much more expensive than kerosene.

Saturday's election was overshadowed by the return from exile and arrest of former president Mikheil Saakashvili, convicted in absentia in 2018 of abuse of office.

Madrid wants former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to return to Spain so he can face trial on charges of sedition.

Doctors at a hospital in Lithuania have found more than a kilogram of small metal objects inside a man’s stomach.

Without proper investment to ensure all children are able to reach their full potential, Europe cannot build a sustainable, inclusive recovery, argues Eurochild President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.

Social Democrat leader Olaf Scholz has said he wants to form a new government before Christmas.

The Protocol, negotiated as part of the Brexit divorce and signed off on by both the EU and UK parliaments, sees Northern Ireland remain part of the EU's Single Market, in effect creating a de-facto border in the Irish Sea.

A London police officer is due to appear in court on Monday, charged with rape

At least 18 small ships bearing more than 600 migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday.

More earthquakes rattled the Spanish island of La Palma on Monday, as the lava flow from an erupting volcano surged after part of the crater collapsed.

Polls are set to close on Monday afternoon, and almost 1,200 municipalities are involved.

The Swedish artist Lars Vilks, known for his 2007 drawing of the Prophet Muhammad and the subsequent death threats that followed, died in a car crash on Sunday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for an ongoing commitment to democracy as she spoke at the 31st-anniversary ceremony of the reunification of east and west.

The offshore dealings and hidden assets of world leaders, politicians, billionaires, celebrities and drug dealers have been revealed in a huge data leak, which follows 2016’s release of the ‘Panama Papers’.

Despite the impact of Brexit and the pandemic, opinion surveys suggest the UK's ruling Conservatives are polling ahead of the Labour opposition as the party meets in Manchester.

An independent commission has heard evidence from thousands of people since being set up in 2018 in response to a large number of historic sexual abuse claims.

Seven passengers and the pilot are all said to have died when the aircraft crashed into an empty office building early on Sunday afternoon.

The move follows an EU-brokered deal to de-escalate tensions triggered by a dispute over vehicle licence plates.

A Taliban spokesman said at least five civilians were killed in the bombing which targeted a mosque in the Afghan capital on Sunday.

The French president reportedly accused Algeria's ruling elite of perpetuating a discourse based on "untruths" and a "hatred of France".

The 3-day youth event was aimed at putting pressure on COP26 delegates as they met to plan the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference.

Mayoral contests in the four largest cities likely will need runoffs after the vote, overshadowed by the arrest on Friday of exiled former president Mikheil Saakashvili.

The first Women's March of the Biden administration brought nationwide protests to demand continued access to abortion, under threat from conservative lawmakers and judges.

The flamboyant ex-minister and ex-owner of Olympique Marseille built a sporting and media empire but was known for a string of scandals and legal problems.

Delegates from around the world met in Milan on Saturday to identify where progress can be made before the summit starts in Glasgow on October 31.

Military personnel will be deployed next week to distribute petrol, while 300 visas for overseas tanker drivers will be issued 'immediately'.

On Saturday Taiwan reported the largest ever number of Chinese military jets to cross into its defence zone.

The party of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants independence from Britain and, if it is ever secured, it's unclear whether the Queen would remain head of state.

The aircraft uses a sensor called a "sniffer" to detect high levels of sulfur and nitrogen along one of Europe's busiest shipping routes.

Some 12 million people are eligible to vote on Sunday and Monday, in the first electoral test for Prime Minister Mario Draghi since he took office.

The former president's arrest has considerably raised the stakes in Saturday's vote, seen as a test for the increasingly unpopular ruling party Georgian Dream.

The opposition leader tells Euronews Greece that migrants are "hostages of the system" as Belarusian authorities use them to put pressure on European borders.

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.