Europe

ATHENS - Greece will lift quarantine restrictions on coronavirus-free visitors from more countries including Australia and Russia from Monday as it extends exemptions ahead of formally opening up to tourists on May 15, the transport ministry said on Sunday. The...

Brussels has played down reports that it has launched legal action against AstraZeneca over delays to vaccine doses. On Thursday, Ireland's health minister said that a "legal case has been initiated by the Commission". Stephen Donnelly told Ireland's parliament the...

Pakistan’s Parliament is expected to consider a resolution on Tuesday about whether the French envoy should be expelled over the publication of controversial cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet, testing whether the government gives in to threats from radical Islamists. Under the...

Repeat infections with COVID-19 are rare within six months but more common for those above age 65, a new study released Wednesday in leading medical publication The Lancet found. "People over the age of 65 are at greater risk of...

A long-awaited report on church officials' handling of past cases of sexual abuse in Cologne, Germany's most powerful Catholic diocese, is to be released on Thursday. Cologne archbishop Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki faces discontent after keeping under wraps for months...

Europe's medicines regulator is to give an update into its investigation on whether there is a link between the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and serious blood clotting issues after multiple countries suspended its use. Emer Cooke, Executive Director...

Lockdown measures in Belgium will continue for the next two weeks at least. The government's decision came during a virtual meeting Friday of the country's Consultative Committee on COVID-19, with Prime Minister Alexander de Croo saying it is "too early"...

Three people have been killed in an avalanche at a ski resort in the Russian Arctic. It swept through the Mount Otdelnaya ski complex near the city of Norilsk in Krasnoyarsk region at 00.30 on Saturday morning. So far, rescuers...

The UK has recorded more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths in just 24 hours. The latest data emerged on the first day of England's third nationwide lockdown, announced on Monday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. That was sparked by a new,...

Slovakia’s supreme court has increased the prison sentence of a former soldier convicted of killing an investigative journalist and his fiancee. Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova were shot dead in February 2018 at their home in Velka Maca, east of...