The son of pensioner Marie-Thérèse told French media he is worried for his mother’s frail health as she is detained in a Louisiana ICE centre. BBC News
Read More »Cement giant guilty of financing militant groups including Islamic State
Alongside Lafont, former deputy managing director Christian Herrault was given a five-year prison sentence, while Firas Tlass, a Syrian ex-member of staff who made the payments to the jihadist groups, was sentenced in absentia to seven years in jail. BBC News
Read More »BBC reports from Budapest as Orbán concedes
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat in the Hungarian election after 16 years in power, with the opposition on course for a landslide win. Péter Magyar is set to be the country’s new prime minister, after record numbers turned out for an election which was seen as pivotal to …
Read More »How Hungary’s knife-edge election could impact the US and Russia
Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán has been in power for 16 years. As a friend to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, there is much international attention on the country’s 12 April elections. The BBC’s Europe Editor Katya Adler reports from Orbán’s home town of Felscút …
Read More »Germany's far-right AfD adopts 'radical' manifesto ahead of key polls
The far-right party is riding high in the opinion polls in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. BBC News
Read More »French man charged with locking son in van for more than a year
The boy was found malnourished, naked, lying next to human excrement and unable to walk, the prosecutor said. BBC News
Read More »Man accused of coercing wife into sex with 120 men goes on trial in Sweden
The 61-year-old denies threatening physical violence and plying his wife with drugs to force her into having sex with strangers. BBC News
Read More »EU airline industry fears fuel shortages if Strait of Hormuz stays closed
The trade body for European airports said if the Strait of Hormuz did not open in the next three weeks, there could be shortages. BBC News
Read More »Dutch police urge victims of 'international sextortion campaign' to come forward
Dutch police have warned that dozens of women and girls were coerced into degrading sexual acts on camera in several countries. BBC News
Read More »How holidays, food and clothes soon cost you more – despite the Iran ceasefire
By-products from petrochemicals are used to produce drugs including painkillers, antibiotics and vaccines. The UK imports most of its generic medicines, with 30% coming from India, which in turn depends on the Gulf to supply a significant proportion of its crude oil imports. The UK was experiencing some product shortages …
Read More »German transgender far-right extremist arrested in Czech Republic
German media reports say Marla-Svenja Liebich used to be a member of a neo-Nazi group called Blood and Honour. BBC News
Read More »French couple leave Iran after more than three years in jail
Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris are on their way home after being allowed to leave the country, the French president says. BBC News
Read More »Who is Viktor Orban, Hungarian PM fighting to cling to power after 16 years?
“If we believe in our own power, we are able to finish the communist dictatorship,” he told an estimated quarter of a million Hungarians during an audacious seven-minute speech. They were gathered in the city’s Heroes’ Square for the reburial of the man behind Hungary’s failed uprising in 1956, Imre …
Read More »Pope Leo calls for global leaders to choose peace in his first Easter Mass
Pope Leo XIV addressed thousands of worshippers gathered in St Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday in his first address as pontiff. BBC News
Read More »German males under 45 may need military approval for long stays abroad
Under the law, travel approvals must generally be granted and it remains unclear how the rule would be enforced if breached. BBC News
Read More »Russian attack on Ukraine market kills five
A Russian drone hit a busy spot in the southern Ukrainian town on Saturday morning, injuring another 21 people. BBC News
Read More »Faced with new energy shock, Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer
In 1990, Europe produced around a third of its electricity from nuclear power. That has now fallen to an average of 15%, leaving the continent “completely dependent on expensive and volatile imports” of fossil fuels, she said, putting Europe at a disadvantage compared with other regions of the world. BBC …
Read More »After 16 years in power, can Viktor Orban finally be unseated?
A slight figure in neat shirts and jackets, Magyar seemed too slick and urbane to reach the hearts of the rural electorate, but has proven himself a strong challenger. Orban, 62, is a village boy who speaks village Hungarian, Magyar is a Budapest lawyer by training. Conscious that his status …
Read More »Russia chose 'Easter escalation' over ceasefire, says Zelensky
Six civilians were killed and 40 others injured as Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles. BBC News
Read More »The German army protecting Western Europe's eastern edge
Can Germany fulfil its newfound ambition to become Europe’s pre-eminent military power? BBC News
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