Category: 3. Europe

Solemn ceremonies will be held at war memorials in towns and villages across France on Thursday as the country honours its dead and marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day, a public holiday this year, as it is every year.

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Eighty years ago today, on 8 May 1945, the second world war in Europe came to an end with the unconditional surrender of Germany’s armed forces. The number of people who remember the war – and how it finished – decreases every year, even as…

Weapons maker Michal Strnad likes to say he works in the business of defense. As Europe re-arms on a massive scale, it’s proving a lucrative place to be.

His closely-held Czechoslovak Group AS, which started out trading Soviet military…

European routes to take 40 minutes longer, Indian services unaffected amid conflict with Pakistan

Following nine days of mourning over Pope Francis’s passing on 21 April, 133 cardinals representing 70 countries have gathered behind closed doors on Wednesday for the conclave to elect the new leader of the Catholic Church.

Sequestered from the outside world with no access to phones…

A woman has been killed in an axe attack at the University of Warsaw in Poland, police say.

A man was severely injured in Wednesday’s attack, they said.

A 22-year-old Polish man has been arrested. His motives remain unclear.

The university described the attack as a “huge tragedy”. It described the…

Iraqi Mohammed Jalal lost 10 years of his life seeking asylum in Germany, without success. Instead of being granted refuge, he was sent back to the land he had fled.

He now faces the same challenges that drove him to leave the northern Kurdistan…

Plastic pellets play a vital role in the value chain, as they make conversion into products more energy and resource efficient. But if not properly handled, they can unintentionally escape into the environment. Hence, the Commission’s proposal for a regulation to prevent plastic pellet…