Safety at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is deteriorating following a drone strike that hit a perimeter access road on Saturday (17 August), according to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Rafael Mariano Grossi.

Ukrainian army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Friday (16 August) that Kyiv's forces were advancing between one and three kilometres in some areas in the Kursk region, 11 days since beginning an incursion into Russia.

Detectives in Ireland on Friday (16 August) probed a possible terrorism link after a teenager allegedly stabbed an army chaplain outside a barracks in the western city of Galway.

Hamas said Friday (16 August) the Palestinian group rejected "new conditions" in a Gaza ceasefire plan the United States presented after two days of talks with Israeli negotiators in Qatar.

The heads of Germany's coalition government clinched a new agreement on the country's fiscal budget for 2025, on Friday (16 August), reaching a compromise solution to the remaining sticking points that had emerged last month.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on Friday (16 Aug) raised its risk level for mpox, after global health officials confirmed one case of infection in Sweden, the first outside Africa.

The European Commission sent a request for information to Meta under the Digital Services Act (DSA) on Friday (16 August), seeking details on compliance with data access and election monitoring requirements.

Eight EU universities made it into the top 50 of the Shanghai 2024 University Ranking, with Paris-Saclay achieving the highest score among EU universities.

On 2 August we commemorated the Roma and Sinti victims and survivors of Nazi persecution, a day for Europe and the world to reflect on, an overlooked and underrepresented atrocity - a chapter erased or omitted from too many world records, history books, and lessons writes Kathrin Meyer.

The adopted text of the UN Cybercrime Convention is a win for digital authoritarianism, which European and like-minded countries must fight, writes Tobias B. Bacherle.

Dual Russian-American citizen Ksenia Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday (15 August) after a Russian court found her guilty of treason for donating money to a charity supporting Ukraine.

Russia and Ukraine should negotiate an end to their conflict to avoid the war spilling over into Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko, a key ally of Vladimir Putin, said in an interview with Russian state television.

Negotiators were to meet in the Qatari capital Doha again on Friday (16 August) in an effort to hammer out a Gaza ceasefire agreement as Israel continued to slam targets in the Palestinian enclave.

Ukraine has chalked up a string of victories more than a week since blindsiding Russia with a lightning cross-border assault, but the risks are piling up as its troops make plans to hold territory and Russia recovers its footing.

The presidents of Brazil and Colombia called Thursday (15 August) for fresh elections in Venezuela -- a proposal quickly rejected by the opposition, who slammed the strongman for blocking a "political transition."

The emergency committee of World Health Organisation (WHO) convened in Geneva yesterday (15 August) agreed that the latest outbreak of Mpox did constitute a public health emergency of international concern PHEIC).

A German military base next to Cologne airport was temporarily sealed off on Wednesday (14 August) and soldiers there were told not to drink tap water as authorities investigated possible sabotage, the military's Territorial Command said.

China has resubmitted plans to build a new large embassy in London, a contested project that could test how the new Labour government handles relations with the world's second largest economy after years of diplomatic tensions and disputes.

The US Navy's deployment of new extremely long-range air-to-air missiles in the Indo-Pacific could erase China's advantage in aerial reach, experts say, part of an intensifying focus on projecting power amid high tensions in the region.

Ukraine's forces advanced further into Russia's Kursk region on Wednesday (14 August) as Kyiv said its gains would provide a strategic buffer zone to protect its border areas from Russian attacks.