Europe

Galleries consider moving works of art as water levels approach highest mark in over a century. Parisians have been warned to stay away from the river Seine as it continues to rise, flooding surrounding roads and...

Germany’s government has faced a slew of criticism over German-made tanks that Turkey deployed in its push into Syria. Some politicians have called for an immediate halt to arms exports to Turkey and nixing a key...

The nurse has already been sentenced for killing six patients by injecting them with drugs and then trying to revive them. If convicted, Niels Högel will be one of the most prolific serial killers in German...

Turkey’s offensive against US-allied militias in the Afrin region of northern Syria is putting NATO in a difficult position. As tensions between the NATO allies escalate, analysts wonder how far Ankara is prepared to go. NATO...

Two reporters for the Turkish branch of German newspaper Tageszeitung were detained and had their homes searched in Ankara. The arrests were part of a wider clampdown on critics of Turkey’s military operation in Syria The...

Written by Alan Sked. Senior figures are quitting over the love-life of leader Henry Bolton. Ukip lacks all political credibility and should dissolve itself. I founded the Anti-Federalist League in 1991 to take Britain out of what became...

French prison officers have blockaded dozens of prisons after new attacks by inmates increased fears for wardens’ safety. The justice minister, Nicole Belloubet, was holding a crisis meeting with union leaders on Monday afternoon as industrial...

Bombardment risks inflaming relations with US, which has allied with Kurds against Isis The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia has said Turkish forces have fired about 70 shells at Kurdish villages in the Afrin region of north-western...

Austria’s new chancellor wants his German counterpart to judge his government “on its deeds” and not on his far-right coalition partner. While both sides stress their closeness, it’s hard to ignore what divides them. Ahead of...

An “amour fou” it is not. Thursday’s meeting between French President Macron and UK Prime Minister May will pit EU fervor against Euroskepticism. How will Brexit affect ties between the two countries? “A Frenchman must be...