Europe

EU has told Meta it must fix "addictive" features on Facebook and Instagram in Europe, after Meta's $16.7 billion child safety deal in the US.

The United States officially designated the UK-based activist network Palestine Action, Italian tech collective Autistici/Inventati, and pro-Palestinian movement Masar Badil as Specially Designated Global Terrorist organizations

Germany deports 23 Afghan men to Kabul on a charter flight, as most of those aboard were convicted of violent crimes.

Macron hosts Saudi's MBS for a two-day Paris visit criticized by journalist unions as a "provocation."

Canada's PM Carney rejects US trade terms, announcing retaliatory tariffs on steel and dairy from Sept. 8 after talks collapse

An 18-year-old attacked a Swedish school with a sword on Friday, killing one person and injuring three before police shot and detained him

A UK court orders Prince Harry and six others to pay Daily Mail publisher £9.5mn after losing their long-running privacy case

France, Italy, Britain and Germany demand Israel halt its E1 West Bank settlement project after new construction tenders spark fresh condemnation.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle plan to return to the UK with their children to live in a private non-royal residence, ending six years of living in California

Britain summoned Israel's chargé d'affaires after Israeli authorities opened bidding for over 1,200 homes in the E1 West Bank settlement area, warning the project endangers a two-state solution

Migrant women in Spain's Ceuta describe sexual harassment while sleeping rough outside an overcrowded reception centre awaiting registration

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas seeks a one-third increase in sanctioned Russian entities in the most far-reaching restrictions package yet

Border unions say Spain ignored warnings before the Ceuta migrant rush, in which more than 70,000 people crossed and at least 94 died

Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday was found dead in London following a high-profile plagiarism scandal, resignation, and allegations of harassment

Berlin plans to end "accompanied drinking," the rule letting 14- and 15-year-olds drink alcohol with their parents, citing health risks to teens.

UK watchdog Ofcom rules Radio Caroline broke broadcasting laws after falsely announcing King Charles III's death in May

Western Europe posted its hottest June-July on record as heatwaves, drought and wildfires swept the region, EU climate monitor Copernicus reports

Spain to establish border controls on travellers from Italy from Saturday, amid an escalating dispute over the Ceuta migrant crisis

Italian police broke up a migrant smuggling ring, arresting eight suspects accused of ferrying people from Algeria to Sardinia by small boat.

German court gives Afghan man Farhad N. a life sentence for the deadly Munich car-ramming attack that killed a mother and daughter