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Molière at 400: French high school students celebrate the great poet

At the Lycée Montaigne in Paris, students are re-enacting excerpts from his plays in a show highlighting violence against women, and Molière's modernity.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Republika Srpska 30th anniversary marked amid serious political crisis

The Serb political leader Milorad Dodik’s increasingly aggressive rhetoric along with his plans to start withdrawing from the Bosnian government has cast a large shadow over this year’s banned holiday.

Russia

Alexander Litvinenko died of radiation poisoning 15 years ago

The European Court of Human Rights recently backed a UK inquiry that said Russia was responsible for the killing.

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Croatia commemorates 30th Anniversary of fall of Vukovar

Croatian citizens pay respect to the victims of military aggression on the town of Vukovar in 1991 – a three-month siege by Yugoslav troops and Serb paramilitaries, which ended by the fall of the town on 18 November 1991, 30 years ago.

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French PM, mayor mark 6th anniversary of Paris attacks

French prime minister Jean Castex and the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo laid flowers' wreaths outside the Bataclan concert complex and Stade de France football stadium on Saturday as the country marked six years since the gun and bomb attacks in the French capital.

Austria

Vienna pays tribute to victims on anniversary of terrorist attack

Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said at the ceremony that terrorism "must not succeed in dividing us".

Art

Back to Black at 15: Giant heart sculptures celebrate Amy Winehouse

North London's Camden Town continues its enduring embrace of the singer's legacy with two new sculptures that celebrate the multi-Grammy winning album.

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Temporary David Bowie pop-up store opens in London

A temporary David Bowie-themed pop-up store opens in London to commemorate 75 years since the visionary singer's birth upcoming on January 8th, 2022.

World News

Ten years on since the death of Gaddafi, how stable is Libya today?

Academic Mustafa Fetouri spoke to Euronews about what has changed in the country after the end of the Gaddafi era.

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India: Building collapse and rescue operations after deadly floods.

Rescue workers evacuate residents as floods wreak havoc in Uttarakhand, northern India.

Italy

Italy marks 20 years since Linate airport plane accident in Milan

A total of 118 people were killed when two planes collided at Milan airport in Italy's worst-ever air disaster.

Ukraine

Ukraine marks 80 years since Nazi massacre of nearly 34,000 Jews

Nearly 34,000 Jews were killed within two days in 1941 at a ravine near Kyiv when the city was under Nazi occupation.

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Pilgrims commemorate Arbaeen in Karbala

Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims on Tuesday converged on the Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate the Arbaeen.

World News

Armenia and Azerbaijan mark anniversary of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

More than 6,500 people were killed in the six-week conflict for control of the region.

France

France marks 20th anniversary of deadly Toulouse factory explosion

Thirty-one people were killed in an explosion at the AZF fertiliser factory in Toulouse in 2001.

Italy

Italy pays tribute to victims five years after Amatrice earthquake

Mario Draghi has vowed to accelerate reconstruction efforts in central Italy, five years after a devastating earthquake killed nearly 300 people.

Japan

Japan marks 76th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga attended a memorial commemorating the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Norway cathedral service marks attack anniversary

Norway cathedral service marks attack anniversary

Germany

Five years on, Munich remembers victims of 2016 mass shooting

Nine people were killed and dozens of others were injured after a gunman with far-right views opened fire in a Munich shopping centre in 2016.

My Europe Series

Breivik attack: 10 years on, has Norway tackled its far-right problem?

Survivors and experts say that hate speech and the far-right ideology that inspired the massacre of 77 people still prosper.