Europe

The Italian navy has accused Turkish fishing boats of throwing stones and smoke bombs at two Italian vessels north of Cyprus.

The man had tried to infect his former partner while they shared a home as their divorce proceedings were being completed.

Italian police are searching for eleven suspects who posted threatening messages towards President Sergio Mattarella on social media. The offence carries a punishment of between one and five years in prison.

His temporary appointment brings an end to the tenure of Boyko Borisov, who had dominated Bulgarian politics since 2009.

A woman stabbed a police officer at her home in Bordeaux on Monday and then was shot and injured by another official.

The British-Swedish firm owes the EU 90 million doses of the vaccine, the European Commission said.

Queen Elizabeth II has formally opened the UK parliament but without the usual pomp and ceremony

Three Portuguese border police officers sentenced to prison for beating a Ukrainian man to death at Lisbon airport in March 2020.

Her landslide election win in November left her with a hostile, pro-Moscow parliament. Elections on July 11 are a chance to change that.

A 23-year-old woman in Tuscany remains under observation after she was mistakenly given an entire vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - equivalent to six doses.

Britain's parliamentary watchdog has announced that it is investigating Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the funding of a luxury holiday he took in 2019.

"The EU has ignored the fact that within its borders a government is disregarding democratic values, leading the country towards populist-nationalist semi-dictatorship while they collect European taxpayers’ money."

The countries ahead on vaccinations, relatively speaking, are those outside the EU, like Serbia and the UK. Hungary is the exception, but Budapest has bought doses from Russia and China to boost its stocks.

In a letter, Boris Johnson invited the leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to a crisis summit on the union.

While hundreds celebrated with improvised street parties, others feared the national state of emergency would be replaced by a patchwork of conflicting regional approaches.

From a debate on the future of Europe to online concerts with top European bands: there are many ways to observe Europe Day this Sunday.

Khan's victory will be a boost to the Labour party which has suffered major losses in England's local elections.