James LandaleDiplomatic Correspondent PA Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper was visiting northern Norway to see the operation involving British and Norwegian soldiers Nato should “double down” on Arctic security to defend the region from Russian aggression, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has told the BBC. On a visit to British forces in …

Paul KirbyEurope digital editor Reuters A Danish air force transport plane arrived in Greenland as European Nato allies deployed to the capital, Nuuk, for joint exercises A 15-strong French military contingent has arrived in the Greenland capital Nuuk, officials say, as several European states send soldiers there as part of …

EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock A British diplomat has been ordered to leave Russia, with officials accusing the man of being an intelligence agent working undercover at the embassy in Moscow. The man has been stripped of his accreditation and must leave the country within two weeks, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. In …

The crustaceans, which were worth about €60,000 (£52,000) were bound for shops and restaurants in Portugal. BBC News

EPA The community in Crans-Montana remains in shock two weeks after the fire The Swiss canton of Valais has banned pyrotechnic devices in all indoor public venues following the devastating fire at a bar on New Year’s Eve where 40 people were killed and 116 were injured. Authorities said each …

Two senior doctors have been arrested in Russia following the deaths of nine babies in a maternity hospital in Siberia this month. The newborns died during the long New Year holiday in Novokuznetsk, Russia’s main investigative authority said in a statement. No reason for babies’ deaths has been given. The …

BBC Ukraine’s “Invincibility Trains” run their diesel engines to provide relief and boost morale At a suburban Kyiv railway station, two carriages painted in the blue and white livery of Ukrainian Railways sit on the main platform, their diesel engines running as snow steadily falls. The train is not going …

Donald Trump is the only world leader capable of stopping Vladimir Putin from threatening Europe, according to Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki. In an interview with Radio 4’s Today programme he said the Russian leader was not to be trusted, but that Europe needed to do everything it could to support …

Two women have accused the Spanish singer Julio Iglesias of sexually assaulting them while they were working for him and allege that he “normalised abuse” in a coercive, threatening and violent environment. The allegations, made in reports by Spanish news site elDiario.es and US outlet Univision, are being investigated by …

Greenland’s prime minister has said his people would choose Denmark over the US if they were asked to make such a choice “here and now”. Jens-Frederik Nielsen’s remark at a joint news conference with Denmark’s prime minister is the strongest by a representative of the semi-autonomous Danish territory since US …

EPA/Shutterstock Jacques and Jessica Moretti, French owners of Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, say they are co-operating with the investigation A judge in Switzerland has ordered that one of the two co-owners of the ski resort bar where 40 people died in a fire on New Year’s Eve be kept …

Footage recorded by Spanish skier Ares Masip shows the moment she was caught up in an avalanche on Pic de l’Hortell, a mountain in the Andorra. The skier was out with her dog Cim when she was surprised by the snow. “Today was a shock and a good lesson on …

BBC One of the co-owners of the Swiss bar where 40 people died in a fire on New Year’s Eve has been detained, media reports say. Sources told Swiss media that Jacques Moretti was a potential flight risk. The blaze at Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana left 116 people injured. …

Russia is freeing French researcher Laurent Vinatier in a prisoner swap deal after he spent more than a year in prison for failing to register as a “foreign agent”. Vinatier’s release is in exchange for Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, who has been imprisoned in France since last June at …

US Vice-President JD Vance says Greenland is “critical” for the defence of the US and the world against possible Russian or Chinese missile attacks – and that Europe and Denmark have “not done a good job” in securing the area. Vance told Fox News that they had not only under-invested …

Jessica ParkerBerlin correspondent BBC Lena’s family have been cooking on a camping stove Power is being restored to the last homes hit by a five-day blackout in Germany’s snow-covered capital, Berlin. The outage was caused by a suspected arson attack and came as temperatures dipped below freezing. It is reportedly …

Katya AdlerEurope editor BBC Earlier today, the so-called Coalition of the Willing, largely made up of European leaders, met in Paris with envoys of US President Donald Trump, to try to make further progress on a sustainable peace deal for Ukraine. With Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky insisting a plan to …

President Volodymyr Zelensky has reshuffled the leadership of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), replacing influential Vasyl Malyuk and nominating Maj-Gen Yevhenii Khmara as acting head. The SBU is primarily concerned with internal security and counter-intelligence and, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, it has also played a prominent …

EPA Russia has intensified attacks – particularly against Ukraine’s energy sector French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky and other key allies of the country as efforts intensify to agree security guarantees for Kyiv in the event of a ceasefire with Russia. Heads of state and top …

All 116 people injured in a bar fire at a Swiss ski resort have now been identified, officials have said. Forty people were killed when a fire tore through a busy venue in Crans-Montana on New Year’s Eve, with victims’ age ranging from 14 to 39 years old. While the …