Protesters smashed the windows of offices belonging to the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, on the fifth consecutive night of unrest across Serbia. Serbian President Aleksander Vučić has warned that protesters who attacked his party’s offices will be punished, after riot police were deployed to several cities on Saturday night. Anti-government …

Thousands of firefighters battled huge blazes in Spain and Portugal on Saturday, as parts of southern Europe remained gripped by a heatwave. Spain’s national weather agency Aemet said that temperatures had exceeded 44C in several places on Saturday and warned of a very high risk of fires across “practically the …

Getty Images Spain is at “extreme risk” of new wildfires, the country’s prime minister has warned, as firefighters continue to battle 14 major blazes. In a post on X, Pedro Sanchez said he expected Friday’s conditions to be “very tough again” as he posted a graphic from the national weather …

Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent in eastern Ukraine Lee Durant/BBC Ukrainians are still training to fight Russia – few expect the war will end soon They call it “dronocide”: new training to deal with what is now the greatest threat to a Ukrainian soldier’s life on the battlefield – drones. These …

At least 27 migrants have died after two boats capsized as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy. Around 60 survivors were rescued from the seas off the island of Lampedusa, while the search for others continues. More than 700 people have died trying to cross the …

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A row has broken out between two German states, Bavaria and Thuringia, as to who can lay claim to inventing the Bratwurst sausage. Until now, the “Wurstkuchl” tavern in Bavaria has claimed to be “the oldest Bratwurst stand in the world.” Die Wurstkuchl is situated on the Stone Bridge in …

European leaders appeared cautiously optimistic after holding a virtual meeting with Donald Trump on Wednesday, two days before he meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. Trump reportedly told the Europeans that his goal for the summit was to obtain a ceasefire …

Locals tried to put out a wildfire threatening a yard of horses on Chios in Greece. The blaze started earlier this week and quickly spread due to strong winds. In the past 24 hours alone, more than 152 new fires have broken out across the country and thousands of people …

A heatwave is driving wildfires across southern Europe, with temperatures topping 40C (104F). Thousands have been forced to flee, and red heat alerts are in effect across Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and the Balkans. Scientists warn global warming is making Mediterranean summers hotter and drier, fuelling longer and more intense …

European leaders have warned against Ukrainian borders being redrawn by force – two days before a US-Russia summit on Ukraine is due to take place in Alaska. In a statement, European leaders said “the people of Ukraine must have the freedom to decide their future.” It added the principles of …

A French nuclear plant temporarily shut down on Monday due to a “massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish” in its filters, its operator said. The swarm clogged up the cooling system and caused four units at the Gravelines nuclear power plant to automatically switch off, energy group EDF said. The …

A man in Austria has jumped on to a high-speed train after apparently being left behind at a station stop. According to local media reports, the man, an Algerian aged 24, is reported to have decided to take advantage of a scheduled stop a St Poelten, 64km (60 miles) west …

Sergen Sezgin/Anadolu via Getty Images One person has died in Turkey after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the north-west province of Balikesir on Sunday evening. An 81-year-old woman passed away shortly after she was pulled out from rubble in the town of Sindirgi, which was the epicentre of the quake, …

Our undercover reporter in northern France BBC News BBC The undercover journalist (L) works alongside BBC correspondent Andrew Harding (R) The findings of a year-long undercover investigation into a violent migrant-smuggling gang were published by BBC News on 5 August – and, as a result, one person has now been …

European allies have rallied behind Ukraine in a renewed surge of support, insisting that any peace talks with Russia must include Kyiv. It comes as Donald Trump prepares to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. “The path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without …

Hugh Schofield Paris correspondent BBC Ali Akbar, now 72, has spent 50 years selling newspapers on the Left Bank He is France’s last newspaper hawker; maybe the last in Europe. Ali Akbar has been pounding the pavement of Paris’s Left Bank for more than 50 years, papers under the arm …

the Visual Journalism team BBC News BBC Fighting has raged in Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion more than three years ago. Russian forces have slowly expanded the amount of territory they control over the past year, mostly in the east of Ukraine, and have continued their recent barrage …

Reuters Firefighters in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse have been battling flames on Thursday after the fire spread through forests and villages in the Aude region of southern France France’s largest wildfire for 75 years, which has burned through an area larger than Paris, has slowed overnight but is not yet under control, officials …

Vitaliy Shevchenko BBC Monitoring Russia editor Getty Images “I’m here to get [the war] over with,” Trump said on Wednesday The war in Ukraine, sparked by Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, shows no sign of abating. In the east of Ukraine, Russia presses on in a grinding and bloody …