Strasbourg’s mayor Jeanne Barseghian told reporters at the scene there had been a collision involving a tram, but the cause was not known. According to BFM TV, Barseghian called on people to wait for the results of the investigation. One eyewitness named Johan told AFP news agency that he saw …

Although the vessel sports the Panamanian flag, German authorities have blamed Russia for the incident. “Russia is endangering our European security not only with its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine, but also with severed cables, displaced border buoys, disinformation campaigns, GPS jammers and, as we have seen, dilapidated oil …

The BBC investigates possible scenarios for the huge Arctic territory’s future as the US president-elect talks about taking control of it. BBC News

Trump has promised to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine soon after he takes office on 20 January and has expressed scepticism about US military and financial support for Kyiv. “President Putin wants to meet,” he said on Thursday. “He has said that even publicly and we have …

Elon Musk took his endorsement of Germany’s far-right party to the next level on Thursday, hosting a live chat with its frontwoman, Alice Weidel. The 74-minute conversation ranged across energy policy, German bureaucracy, Adolf Hitler, Mars and the meaning of life. The world’s richest man unequivocally urged Germans to back …

Their comments gave away the deep concern within the EU about how to handle the upcoming Trump presidency. “This is not just very serious for Greenland and Denmark – it is serious to the whole world and to Europe as a whole,” MP Karsten Honge said. “Imagine a world – …

The Kremlin ridiculed the European response, suggesting it was reacting “very timidly… almost in a whisper”. Last week, Greenland’s leader said the territory should free itself from “the shackles of colonialism”, although he made no mention of the US. A former Greenland foreign minister, Pele Broberg, who now heads the …

Upon medical advice, the baby and its mother were taken via helicopter to hospital on Lanzarote. No other complications have been reported by authorities. “It being Three Kings Day, this was the best gift we could have received,” the commander of the helicopter, Álvaro Serrano Pérez, told Reuters news agency. …

Denmark, a long-time US ally, has repeatedly made clear that Greenland is not for sale and that it belongs to its inhabitants. Greenland’s prime minister, Mute Egede, is pushing for independence and has also made clear the territory is not for sale. He was visiting Copenhagen on Wednesday. Trump made …

An Italian journalist detained in Iran last month has been freed and is on a flight back to Rome, the Italian government says. Cecilia Sala, 29, was arrested on 19 December, three days after an Iranian engineer was detained by Italian authorities in Milan on suspicion of supplying drone technology …

Around half of Belcastro’s 1,200 residents are over the age of 65 and the nearest Accident & Emergency (A&E) department is over 45km (28 miles) away, the mayor said. He added that the A&E was only reachable by a road with a 30kmh (18mph) speed limit. The village’s on-call doctor …

An image taken from social media and supplied by the Reuters news agency appears to show a soldier holding up a Russian flag in Kurakhove. The image has not been verified by the BBC. Viktor Trehubov, spokesperson for Ukraine’s Khortytsia group of forces, told Reuters news agency that, as of …

“We are not for sale and we will not be for sale,” the island’s Prime Minister, Mute Egede, said in December. “Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland.” Greenland lies on the shortest route from North America to Europe, making it strategically important for the US. It is also home …

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has lost his appeal against a prison sentence for corruption. However, the Paris appeals court ruled that he could serve his time at home wearing a tag instead of going to jail. In 2021 Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in prison – including two …

Also in the 32-page special are the 40 winning entries in a cartoon competition on the theme of “Laughing at God”. One contains the image of a cartoonist asking himself: “Is it okay to draw a picture of a man drawing a picture of a man drawing a picture of …

President Van der Bellen infuriated the FPO by not tasking it with forming a government soon after the election. At the time, the leaders of all of the other parties ruled out making an alliance with Kickl. In October, Van der Bellen gave the conservative People’s Party (OVP), which came …

With his leopard-like spots, Navarro – a male lynx – calls out during mating season as he walks towards a camera trap. Just short of 100cm (39 inches) in length and 45cm in height, the Iberian lynx is a rare sight. But there are now more than 2,000 in the …

The organisation hoping to build the facility in eastern Canada say it would be able to attract funding if it received a commitment from the French government to send the two whales there. The Whale Sanctuary Project (WSP) proposes to close off an area of seawater measuring 40 hectares (98 …

“The Ukrainian army launched a drone strike on a civilian car carrying Izvestia’s freelance correspondent Alexander Martemyanov,” the news outlet reported on its Telegram channel. “The car was located far from the line of contact.” The vehicle was returning from covering shelling in the Russian-held city of Gorlivka when it …

In the absence of agreement on Ukraine’s long term future, its allies are doing what they can to bolster its defences. In December, Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, said “everything” was being looked at, including the supply of additional air defence systems, in part to protect the country’s battered energy …