On Thursday, Greek officials said the state of emergency for the island would be in place for nearly an entire month, until 3 March. Greece is one of Europe’s most earthquake-prone countries. Seismologists have told the BBC it is difficult to predict how long the recent wave of seismic activity …

Experts agree the island is experiencing what Greece’s prime minister has called an “extremely and intricate geological phenomenon”. “It is really unprecedented, we have never seen something like this before in [modern times] in Greece,” says Dr Athanassios Ganas, research director of the National Observatory of Athens. Santorini lies on …

Three colleagues of Mr Rubiales are also on trial, accused of colluding in the alleged coercion: Jorge Vilda, coach of the World Cup-winning side, Rubén Rivera, the federation’s former head of marketing, and former sporting director, Albert Luque. They all deny the charges. On Wednesday, the court heard that Mr …

The Foreign Office added that “any further action taken by Russia will be considered an escalation and responded to accordingly”. The Kremlin has yet to comment publicly on the expulsion. Moscow revoked the accreditation of a British diplomat which it claimed was a spy in November – ordering the individual …

Four-year-old Emir was at home with his family when two devastating earthquakes hit southern Turkey on 6 February 2023, claiming the lives of more than 53,500 people. The bodies of his mother, father and 10-year-old brother were found in the wreckage of their apartment block in Antakya, a city on …

In one year’s time Italy will be welcoming the world to the Winter Olympics, but a sizeable number of athletes could instead be competing for medals more than 4,000 miles away in the United States. The sliding centre in Cortina – which will stage bobsleigh, skeleton and luge – is …

Authorities are still yet to release details about the dead and injured. Health officials said three women and two men were in a critical but stable condition, while another woman was treated for minor injuries. Police declined to confirm media reports naming Andersson as the suspect. Orebro police said they …

Elly Schlein, leader of the opposition Democratic Party (PD), accused Nordio of speaking not as a government minister but as a “defence lawyer for a torturer”. Last week, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni disclosed that she, Nordio and Piantedosi were under investigation in connection with Mr Najim’s release. A special court …

Colleague and investigative journalist Irma Dimidtradze says her boss had not been taking part in the daily anti-government protests. But when Amaglobeli learned that a friend was among several protesters detained for putting up posters for an upcoming general strike, she rushed to the police station. “People were chanting ‘sticking …

Belgian police are looking for armed men after a shooting reported outside a metro station in the centre of Brussels. CCTV footage shows at least two men wearing balaclavas and carrying what appeared to be Kalashnikov weapons at the entrance of Clémenceau station in the Belgian capital early on Wednesday. …

Ali el Mokad, a relative of a man who is believed to have been studying at the school at the time of the attack, had positioned himself outside of a local hospital waiting to hear on his relatives’ condition. “It doesn’t feel very good actually,” Mr Mokad told Reuters news …

Police first received reports of a shooting taking place in Orebro, a city 200km (124 miles) west of Stockholm, at 12:33 local time (11:44 GMT) on Tuesday. The shooting was at Campus Risbergska – a type of school for adults known as Komvux in Swedish, which is primarily for people …

It was placed in a specially made case and taken to Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire. Inside this huge machine, which is called a synchrotron, electrons are accelerated to almost the speed of light to produce a powerful X-ray beam that can probe the scroll without damaging it. “It can …

Haenel, now 35, was applauded by women’s rights activists as she left the courtroom in Paris, as had been the case during the earlier phases of the trial. Reporters in court on Monday said she appeared nervous before the verdict but showed no reaction as Ruggia’s sentencing was read out. …

Five people have been shot at a school in central Sweden, police say. The shooting happened in Örebro, 200km west of Stockholm, on Tuesday afternoon. Police say the extent of the injuries is unclear. The incident took place before13:00 local time and officials are urging residents to stay away from …

Some sectors, such as the car industry, with its ‘just in time’ supply chains, would likely welcome such a move but other manufacturers would be exposed to greater competition. Leading the technical negotiations for the UK is Michael Ellam, who worked in Downing Street when Gordon Brown was prime minister. …

“Political and economic independence are interconnected,” she says, “and it’s crucial that we cooperate with Denmark on the development of business in Greenland but also work with the Americans on the extraction of raw materials and the development of tourism.” At present, the Greenland economy is heavily reliant on the …

The incident triggered protests and calls for Rubiales’s resignation, and it also entered the political arena. Prime minister Pedro Sánchez, whose left-wing government has approved reforms seeking to boost gender equality and ensure consent in sexual relations, said that Rubiales’s kiss had shown that “there is still a long way …

The demonstrations come three weeks before national elections and follow similar protests across Germany on Saturday. Police estimate that about 160,000 people came out to protest on Sunday. The rally began just outside the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament building and moved on towards the CDU’s headquarters. Protester Anna Schwarz, 34, told …

Zelensky posted on X that the incident exposed Russia as “a state devoid of civility”. “This is how Russia wages war – Sudzha, Kursk region, Russian territory, a boarding school with civilians preparing to evacuate,” he wrote. “A Russian aerial bomb. They destroyed the building even though dozens of civilians …