Europe

The EU is set to unveil a tech sovereignty package targeting cloud, chips and AI, as Brussels moves to slash its 80% reliance on foreign digital providers

Italian police have arrested two Pakistani nationals over the killing of four Pakistani farm workers in southern Italy

Russian missile and drone strikes killed nine and wounded dozens across Ukraine on Tuesday, days after Zelensky warned Moscow was preparing a massive new offensive.

Italy has put Rome and four other cities on red alert as a record-breaking European heatwave continues to cause deaths in Britain and France.

Radio Caroline triggered its monarch death protocol by accident after a computer error at its Essex studio, stunning listeners and prompting a swift public apology

Indian PM Narendra Modi pledged at an Oslo summit to work with Nordic allies toward peace in Ukraine and the Middle East, while defending the rules-based global order

India and Sweden announced a strategic partnership on Sunday, targeting doubled bilateral trade within five years

WHO has reassessed the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak and kept its global risk rating at "low." The MV Hondius docks in Rotterdam on Monday

Former UK health secretary Wes Streeting confirms he will run for the Labour leadership after resigning from Starmer's cabinet over the party's election collapse

European nations have begun negotiations with Iran's Revolutionary Guards navy over Strait of Hormuz transit rights, as Tehran expands its new toll system for the waterway

Modi's five-nation tour starts in the UAE Friday, with India seeking energy security and trade deals as the Iran war disrupts Gulf shipping routes

European Commission plans to invite Taliban officials to Brussels for talks on returning Afghan migrants. Around 20 EU countries are backing the push

Over 70 Labour MPs are calling for Keir Starmer to resign after crushing local election losses. Four government aides have already quit

Three people have died in the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak. Health officials say public risk is low and have dismissed comparisons to Covid-19

Britain is deploying destroyer HMS Dragon to the Middle East ahead of a UK-France-led multinational mission to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz from Iran

Keir Starmer vows to 'listen to voters' after Labour loses nearly 1,400 council seats to Reform UK and nationalists in a historic local election defeat across Britain

WHO chief Tedros says hantavirus risk to Tenerife is 'low' and 'not another Covid' as MV Hondius, where three passengers have died, heads for the Canary Islands