With over 97% of precincts counted, three blocs all supporting Sadyr Zhaparov emerged as the top vote-getters.

A couple was arrested at the airport in Amsterdam after they fled hotel quarantine.

Here's a round-up of the COVID situation across Europe, where countries are tightening restrictions amid a spike in cases.

"It has been seven years since survivors have been waiting for this," Yazda NGO told Euronews.

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Lawmakers from all three Baltic states met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday.

Japan will suspend entry of all foreign visitors from Tuesday over a new COVID-19 variant.

Merriam-Webster has chosen "vaccine" as the word of the year in 2021. There was an increase of 1,048% in lookups compared to 2019.

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The visit of EU and NATO's top officials to Lithuania was dominated by the Belarus migrant crisis and Russia's military build-up near Ukraine.

Rare footage of a polar bear killing and eating a reindeer is being seen as evidence that climate change is forcing a change of diet in the Arctic.

Today is the first International Day of the Mediterranean, celebrating diversity and cooperation between 42 member states in the region. Union for the Mediterranean Secretary-General Nasser Karmel reflects on an unprecedented year, and the challenges...

The recent tensions in Guadeloupe and Martinique started because of France's obligatory vaccinations for health care workers, and nationwide health pass to get into restaurants and other venues.

Thousands of demonstrators around the world took part in protests to highlight violence against women and LGBTQ groups.

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A plane operated by EU border agency Frontex will be deployed over the Channel to better identify smuggling networks, said the French interior minister at a meeting with European migration officials.

South Africa's health minister says the travel bans over the new Omicron variant first detected in his country are "draconian", "unjustified," and contrary to WHO guidance.

62 per cent of Swiss voters backed a controversial COVID certificate in a national referendum on Sunday, official results showed.

From Asia-Pacific to North Africa and the Middle East, here is a round-up of the latest travel restrictions prompted by concerns over the Omicron variant of coronavirus.

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Critics of the Citizens Security Law passed by the previous conservative government in 2015 say it gives too much power to security forces.

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The Czech president on Sunday swore in centre-right opposition leader Petr Fiala as the country’s new prime minister following last month’s election.

The suspects transported more than 700 people at a total cost of more than €2.5 million, police said.

Lieutenant Ecaterina Teodoroiu died in battle in Marasesti in 1917.

The eruption started on September 19. Experts say it could last up to three months.

On Friday Russian authorities had released the names of 51 people presumed dead after a methane explosion the day before in the Listvyazhnaya mine.

Police found three bodies and arrested more than 100 people in three days of unrest, sparked by concerns about the nation's increasing links with China.

President Putin met the leaders of both countries, on the anniversary of a peace deal ending a conflict over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said a "race against time" was underway to tackle Omicron. Cases of the new COVID variant were detected in Denmark, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the UK, Germany, Italy and Belgium.

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The country is now under amber or yellow alert depending on the area.

“There is no reason to believe it was a terrorist act," police said.

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Either Italy and Portugal will fail to qualify for next year's tournament.

'Green finance' is not worth the money. Post-COP26, we need a new approach to tackling climate change through finance, writes ESMT Berlin president Jörg Rocholl.

When women experience violence during childbirth it can lead to traumatic disorders that affect all aspects of their future lives. And yet in Germany, the topic is taboo.

"Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of infection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs (variants of concerns)," the United Nations' health agency said in a statement.

National Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said.

The Paris prosecutor opened an investigation after several women accused former French environment minister Nicolas Hulot of sexual assault and rape.

A landfill near Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina is leaking black fluid containing copper, lead, zinc, and arsenic at worrying levels according to test results taken by locals who are worried the dumpsite is attributed to deaths from cancer.

Kavala, 64, is accused of funding nationwide anti-government protests in 2013 and helping orchestrate a coup attempt three years later.

"We're on the side of climate justice" - Frans Timmermans, the face of the EU's green deal, talks COP26, nuclear energy, Nord Stream 2 and more.

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Lukashenko made his first public appearance at the Polish border since the start of the crisis.

Walter Rotundo and his wife welcomed their son by caesarean on Thursday to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the football legend's death.

Amnesty International UK made the comments as tensions between London and Paris rise following the deaths of 27 migrants off the coast of Calais.

A street corner in the centre of Serbia's capital featuring a mural guarded by volunteers poses the question of whether the country's society and its politicians have the strength to deal with its wartime past.

Six-year-old Eitan Biran has been the focus of a custody battle between his maternal grandparents in Israel and his paternal relatives in Italy after surviving the crash in May.

Europe's first reported case of new COVID variant has been discovered in Belgium.