Imani and Hermien are believed to be the first hippopotamuses with a confirmed COVID-19 infection.

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Russia in recent months has faced its deadliest and largest surge of coronavirus cases, with officially reported infections and deaths regularly hitting all-time highs.

In this Global Conversation, Euronews speaks to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the escalating tensions with Moscow's over its military build-up on the border with Ukraine.

The World Health Organization's chief scientist says the new variant is 'highly transmissible' but that the world is better prepared than in 2020.

The European Court of Human Rights had called for Kavala to be immediately released, but Turkey has dismissed the ruling.

Only a dozen allegations of sexual abuse involving Portuguese priests have been investigated by authorities since 2001 - more than half of those were dropped.

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Kyiv called for the West to stand firm against Moscow on Friday, as the Kremlin said it wants binding guarantees to avert NATO's expansion to Ukraine.

Minsk has admitted the latest sanctions on airliners and travel companies will "economically stifle" the country.

On the other side of COVID-19, Central Europe's sluggish economies need to diversify, work together and make room for innovation to thrive, says public sector advisor Soňa Muzikárová

Matas Maldeikis traded barbs with a Chinese journalist on Twitter over the the EU delegation visit to Taiwan.

Nehammer needs the backing of his party’s junior coalition partners, the Greens, and the approval of Austria’s president, which is considered a formality.

"He thought he could cheat the system and thus obtain the green pass without actually having had the vaccine."

The Turkish currency has in turn lost 40% of its value since the start of the year. More than 20% was lost during the last month alone.

Here's a look across Europe at the conversation on mandatory vaccines.

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French officials hailed a "historic contract" to sell 80 Rafale military planes to the United Arab Emirates.

The risk of reinfection appeared to increase in South Africa amid a surge in Omicron variant cases, a new study said. It is too early to determine whether the new variant causes more severe illness.

Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has said that France has taken an "important step" to tackling bullying and harassment in schools.

The four men were sentenced to a total of 100 years in prison for their involvement in the killing.

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

Two women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing them as teens were repeated visitors to his Palm Beach mansion, a former staffer said at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial.

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Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignation of the archbishop of Paris, who unexpectedly offered to step down last week after admitting to an “ambiguous” relationship with a woman in 2012.

The IOC said it held a second video call with the tennis star but did not release any video or transcript.

Pope Francis plans to meet with the leader of Cyprus’ Greek Orthodox Church with the aim of further mending an ideological and political rift between the Catholic West and the Orthodox East that dates back nearly a millennium.

A song by East German-born punk singer Nina Hagen was among those requested by the outgoing Chancellor as she was treated to a traditional send-off.

Two German citizens were allegedly found smuggling the arachnids in over 200 plastic containers.

In an interview with Euronews, the US Secretary of State says Moscow must understand that attacking Ukraine would not be in Russia's interests.

Cyprus' education minister said he would work with police to prevent similar “common criminal acts”.

Facebook's parent company also said it had removed dozens of fake Polish accounts that posed as migrants.

A corporate Christmas party in Norway caused the biggest Omicron outbreak outside South Africa, authorities said on Friday.

More than 30 World War II-era artworks that were stolen from a museum in Jajce, in central Bosnia, finally found their way back home after a collector purchased them at a Vienna flea market.

The UN warns that needs are skyrocketing worldwide as the pandemic continues to rage, and climate change and conflicts push more people to the brink of famine.

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Since mid-November, nearly 200,000 Spaniards who were reluctant to get the vaccine at first have now finally taken the step.

The EU border agency aircraft was deployed a week after 27 migrants died when their dinghy deflated in the Channel.

France’s main right-wing political party, the Républicains, picked two candidates to advance to a second-round as party members pick their presidential candidate.

"The economic priority is the vaccine," said the OECD, warning that the recovery from last year's post-pandemic slump is running out of steam.

Six customers and several employees were stranded by the snowstorm and spent the night sleeping on IKEA's showroom beds.

People without the jab won't be able to access non-essential shops, restaurants, places of culture or leisure -- ahead of a draft law on mandatory vaccination.

Schallenberg says he will go when a new party leader is chosen, while his predecessor as head of government Sebastian Kurz says he is leaving politics.

Pope Francis is expected to raise the issue of migration when he arrives in Cyprus on Thursday on the first leg of the trip.

A regional court found the 43-year-old surgeon guilty of gross negligence.

After a 30-hour lull, scientists recorded some 130 earthquakes early on Wednesday.

The incident is one of the most dramatic breakouts the country has seen in recent years.

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It's one of the most pivotal abortion cases to reach the US Supreme Court in 50 years.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed legislation that would give authorities patrolling the Channel the power to turn away boats carrying migrants.