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Austria is beginning another COVID-19 lockdown, as the government seeks to limit the spread of the virus. The lockdown is the first since vaccines...

Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, believed to have been missing for nearly three weeks, has held a video call with the president of the...

Missing Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has purportedly appeared in a video in which she is seen with friends in a restaurant. Peng, a...

Rotterdam’s mayor has condemned “an orgy of violence” at protests against COVID-19 restrictions in the Dutch port city, in which seven people were hurt...

Austria is to become the first country in Europe to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory by law and has announced a full national lockdown from...

Across Europe, sweeping COVID-19 restrictions are being imposed in a bid to tackle a fourth wave of the virus currently surging across the continent....

More than 400 migrants, who have camped for weeks at Belarus’ borders with the EU, have boarded a deportation flight bound for Iraq. Some...

“Take it from me, please don’t come… it’s bad here.” This is one of hundreds of messages sent by migrants on the Belarus border...

Authorities in New Delhi are considering a first-of-its-kind lockdown to combat worsening air pollution. Schools have already been closed indefinitely as severe smog choked...

A teenager has been found not guilty of the murders of two men and the attempted murder of a third at a demonstration in...

Ireland is introducing new COVID-19 restrictions including a midnight closing time for pubs, nightclubs and restaurants as the country battles a fourth wave of...

A family of four, who were left stranded in the Australian outback when their campervan got bogged down following heavy rain, have been rescued....

A “reckless and irresponsible” Russian weapons test has created more than 1,500 pieces of debris now endangering the seven crew aboard the International Space...

Swedish police have arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of murder after two children fell “from a great height” and one of...

Austria is placing millions of people not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in lockdown as of today as Europe becomes the epicentre of the pandemic...

Austria is putting all unvaccinated residents into lockdown from midnight on Sunday, the government has said. Anyone over the age of 12 who has...

A new draft climate deal has been published in Glasgow this morning as COP26 talks spill over and could last well into Saturday after...

World leaders have reached the most significant climate change pact since the landmark Paris Agreement, following a turbulent two weeks of fraught negotiations in...

A key commitment on fossil fuels has been watered down in a draft of the final agreement between nearly 200 nations at the COP26...