Thousands of Bulgarians rallied on Wednesday evening against the country's minority government and what they say is its failure to tackle endemic corruption in the European Union's poorest member state. The protests in the capital Sofia and dozens of other towns and cities across the Black Sea nat
Russian frozen assets will have to be used for Ukraine at some point, Belgium’s deputy prime minister Vincent Van Peteghem said on Thursday, added however Belgium “would not take any reckless compromises” before it agreed to any deal over this. “At some point, these frozen
Ageing Germany’s population could shrink by almost 10 million people, to around 75 million, by 2070 as the baby boomer generation gives way to much smaller cohorts, the statistics office said. In its latest population forecast, published on Thursday, the office said it expected one in four p
Austria's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools for girls under 14 despite uncertainty over whether the legislation will be ruled unconstitutional as a previous ban was five years ago. The ban, proposed by the ruling coalition of three centrist parties
Tehran called on the United Nations to intervene in what it called the "tightening of restrictions on Iran's diplomatic mission to the United Nations in New York", according to a foreign ministry statement published on Thursday. The statement also condemned a decision by the US State Department "t
