2017-06-21

United Kingdom

Everything you need to know about the State Opening of Parliament

Who is Black Rod? Does the UK Crown really ride in its own coach? Who are the Yeomen of the Guard and why do they search the cellars?

21/06/2017

Kazakhstan

Eurasian Media Forum at heart of EXPO 2017

In partnership with eurasian_media_forum

21/06/2017

Hungary

Migrant smugglers go on trial in Hungary over lorry tragedy

Eleven men are charged with human trafficking and torture over the deaths of 71 migrants who suffocated in the back of an abandoned lorry in 2015.

21/06/2017

France

Police praised for helping speeding student get to his exam

21/06/2017

Cinema

Celuloid cannibalism 'The Bad Batch'

Cannibalism and dystopian violence coming to a cinema near you

21/06/2017

Belgium

Belgian police "neutralise" a person wearing an explosive belt at Brussels train station

21/06/2017

France

Macron allies quit French government

The departure of Justice Minister Francois Bayrou and others from the MoDem party comes amid a funding scandal.

21/06/2017

United Kingdom

Daniel Day-Lewis shocks Hollywood by retiring from acting

The Anglo-Irish actor was the first man to win three Best Actor Oscars

21/06/2017

Portugal

Operation against Portuguese wildfires enters fifth day

Reports that firefighting plane crashed in Portugal have turned out to be false

21/06/2017

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia gets new crown prince

Saudi Arabia's king has appointed his son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince - replacing his nephew, Mohammed bin Nayef, as first in line to the throne.

21/06/2017

Belgium

'I think we had some luck tonight'

Belgian counter-terrorism experts are trying to establish the identity of a suspected suicide bomber shot dead by troops in one of Brussels' main train stations.

21/06/2017

Europe News

The Brief from Brussels: Migration back on EU agenda

This is the Brief from Brussels, a daily roundup of the top stories from the EU’s de facto political capital.

21/06/2017

Belgium

Belgian troops shoot suspected suicide bomber

A suspected suicide bomber is shot by troops in Brussels Central Station

21/06/2017