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.

Hamas said on Wednesday (14 August) it would not take part in a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks slated for Thursday in Qatar, but an official briefed on the talks said mediators expected to consult with the Palestinian group afterwards.

An ethical hack of solar panels in the Netherlands has revealed their vulnerability to cyberspace attacks, prompting calls for more rigorous safety assessments by the industry.

Finance Ministers from five German-speaking countries met at Lake Constance where they doubled-down on the need to mobilise private capital and reduce public debt, ahead of EU discussions on how to spur growth and investment.