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Almost 500 people have been arrested on suspicion of starting wildfires in France since the start of the summer, authorities have said, as firefighters in half a dozen European countries tackle ferocious blazes amid a record-breaking heatwave.

On the promenade overlooking the main tourist beach in the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Africa, a Sudanese teenager in a tattered T-shirt prays on his knees to Allah at three in the afternoon.

Two ​people have died after firefighting helicopters ‌collided in Greece as authorities battle to bring raging wildfires under control.

The United States began reviewing its military presence in Europe on Monday, officials said, after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told his NATO counterparts last month that Washington was planning such an analysis.

Through an opaque network of shell companies in the British Virgin Islands and Luxembourg holding firms, an agency that manages China’s foreign reserves has discreetly scooped up stakes in Europe’s critical infrastructure, utilities, and real estate.

Im Jahr 2019, zwei Jahre vor dem russischen Großangriff auf die Ukraine, erschütterte ein Korruptionsskandal Russland: Im Mittelpunkt standen Geldwäsche in Höhe von 200 Milliarden Rubel über Verträge mit der staatlichen Eisenbahngesellschaft Russische Eisenbahnen.

In 2019, two years before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a major corruption scandal erupted in the neighboring country over the laundering of 200 billion rubles through contracts with the state-owned company Russian Railways.

Twelve countries, including the UK, are set to spend more than £37bn ($50bn) over the next 10 years on a new long-range missile to protect Europe.

Donald Trump has threatened to pull US troops out of Europe as he revived his demand for control of Greenland.

A campaign of drone launches over Europe from 2024 to 2026 was carried out using vessels from Russia’s “shadow fleet,” according to a report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

The UK’s all-time temperature record could come under threat this weekend, as intense heat was expected to spread back across Britain and Europe.

Andy Burnham should publicly offer to provide a nuclear umbrella over Europe if he becomes the UK’s next leader, a top European diplomat told.

A nightmare scenario has been playing on eastern European minds with increasing intensity since Donald Trump returned to the White House: what if Russia attacks and the US does not join the fight?

Two children aged four and two have been found dead in their family’s car in south-eastern France, the local prosecutor said, as a large swathe of western Europe suffers a ferocious heatwave forecast to shatter absolute temperature records.

Russia is expanding its nuclear-capable, long-range weapon systems to press Europe and fracture NATO.

The Lib Dems will urge Andy Burnham to end Labour’s "torpor and timidity" towards the EU as they call for the UK to rejoin the single market, in a notable strengthening of their own position.

Italian authorities have dismantled a major underground illegal bank that moved up to 100 million euros ($116 million) annually to finance operations for domestic and international drug traffickers and organized crime syndicates, police announced Monday.

A cyber extortion group is targeting U.S. law firms by impersonating IT workers, stealing sensitive files, and threatening to publish the data if the firms do not pay, the FBI warned in a recent alert.

Europe’s STOXX 600 hit a record high on Monday, boosted by a relief rally across most sectors after the United States and Iran reached a preliminary agreement ‌that would open the Strait of Hormuz and end the three-month-long war in the Middle East.

Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in order to restore Russia’s imperial greatness. Instead, he may go down in history as the man who transformed Russia into China’s junior partner, thereby demoting it to the ranks of middle powers — or, worse, transforming it into a Third World country with nuclear weapons.

Three in four European adults encountered a scam over the past 12 months, according to a sweeping new report that warns of a rapidly evolving digital underworld where criminal networks are increasingly harnessing artificial intelligence to target victims.

On Monday, a slightly disheveled Iraqi man, shackled and dressed in beige prison overalls, was ushered into a Manhattan courtroom.

Lawyer for British women criticizes ‘extraordinary spectacle’ of Tate’s arrival in Moscow.

Lyoness Ponzi scammer Hubert Freidl has fled Europe for Dubai.