Europe

Twelve people were killed in a wildfire in Almeria in southern Spain, with 150 firefighters working to put out the blaze, the Emergency Agency of Andalucía said early on Friday. Minister of the Presidency, Health, and Emergencies An...

The Kremlin said that joint naval drills ​between Russia and China which kicked off on Monday ‌in the waters and airspace off the Chinese city of Qingdao were not directed against any other country ​and would boost regional security....

Spain is likely to attract 100 million ​foreign tourists this year with the number of visitors expected to grow during the ‌key summer season helped by uncertainty in the Middle East, Tourism Minister Jordi Hereu told reporters on Mond...

Britain's culture minister Lisa Nandy said on Thursday she had decided to leave Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter, saying it now "favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate". "I've decided to leave this pla...

Spain recorded 1,029 excess deaths last month attributable to heat, official data showed on Wednesday, as a five-day heatwave with temperatures surpassing 40 degrees Celsius made it the second-hottest month of June on record. Data on the H...

France has recorded 1,000 excess deaths during the blistering heatwave sweeping Europe, the public health agency said on Sunday, warning that the true figure was likely to be higher. Detailing its preliminary count of excess deaths, Sante...

The death toll from Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes rose above 1,400 on Saturday as foreign rescue teams poured into the country and authorities pressed on with the search for survivors in the hardest-hit coastal areas. The update...

Russia accused Ukraine of conducting a deadly drone strike on a bus carrying Belarusian schoolchildren on Wednesday, an allegation that ​Ukraine's military said was "false". Yegor Kovalchuk, the acting governor of Russia's ‌Bryansk re...