Around 3,000 firefighters in Portugal were struggling to put out more than 150 wildfires raging across the country Tuesday, as persistent hot and dry weather stoked the flames, officials said. In one case, around 800 firefighters supported by air units were needed to finally bring ...
A Belgian town honored its 22-year-old tradition of making a giant omelet on Tuesday amidst an egg contamination scare, cooking 10,000 eggs in a pan 4 meters wide. Millions of chicken eggs have been pulled from European supermarket shelves as a result of the scare ...
In the not so distant future, Kraft Parmesan, a household name for grated cheese with its distinctive green package sold by a Japanese dairy company, may disappear from shelves in Japan or reappear bearing a different name. That is one example of what may happen ...
Hundreds of people have gathered in an ancient forest in Poland to protest the widespread logging the government has ordered there. The Bialowieza Forest, one of Europe's last primeval woodlands and a UNESCO World Heritage site, is the subject of a heated political dispute over ...
Hot and dry weather stoked the wildfires burning across Southern Europe on Sunday as firefighters in Portugal and the French island of Corsica struggled to corral the flames. Over 4,000 firefighters were battling more than 250 wildfires in Portugal, which requested assistance from other European ...
The Libyan navy on Thursday ordered foreign vessels to stay out of a coastal "search and rescue zone" for migrants headed for Europe, a measure it said targeted NGOs. Six years since a revolution that toppled longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Libya has become a key ...
Wildfires flared across Portugal on Thursday following a rise in temperatures and strong winds, ending days of cooler weather that had brought a brief respite from a spate of blazes, including one that killed 64 people in June. The Civil Protection Agency said it was ...
A port director in Tunisia says authorities have instructed commercial ports in the North African nation to deny access to a ship rented by European identity groups and sailing the Mediterranean Sea with an anti-migrant message. Fishermen and human rights activists in the Tunisian city ...
Frustrated over China's inability to pressure North Korea over its nuclear program, the Trump administration is weighing plans to punish China for forcing U.S. and foreign companies to share their technology in return for access to the vast Chinese market. That's according to two people ...
Europe will look quite different after Brexit because forces are at work internationally and globally that are changing the whole pattern of European collaboration.
France's interior minister announced on Monday plans to open two centers to shelter migrants returning to the northern port city of Calais, determined to get to Britain despite the closing of a vast makeshift camp last fall. While Gerard Collomb put the number of migrants ...
Free movement of people between Britain and the European Union will end in March 2019, when Britain leaves the bloc, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said on Monday. Last week British finance minister Philip Hammond said there should be no immediate change to immigration rules ...
