Europe
4 Apr
Authorities arrested 22 people across four European countries on Thursday as part of a probe into a suspected 600-million-euro ($650 million) fraud of Covid recovery money, the bloc's prosecutor's office said.
4 Apr
Tried as some did, they could not hold back tears. It was an emotive atmosphere at the All Saints Church in Shooter’s Hill on Tuesday night, as family, friends, policemen and politicians paid tributes...
3 Apr
A mysterious tunnel under construction has been discovered near a major prison in southern Paris during routine electrical works, although it did not appear part of an elaborate escape plan, police sources and city officials said on Wednesday. Tuesday's discovery was made by a technician from Enedis, which manages the electricity distribution network in France,…
3 Apr
A 12-year old suspected of shooting and killing a classmate and wounding two girls at a school in Finland said he had been motivated by bullying, police said Wednesday Flags flew at half-mast as the northern European country observed a day of mourning a day after the boy had opened fire in a classroom at…
2 Apr
Poland's deputy foreign minister Andrzej Szejna on Tuesday said that Israel should "compensate" the families of the seven aid workers, including a Polish citizen, killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
2 Apr
A 12-year-old opened fire Tuesday at a school north of the Finnish capital Helsinki, killing a fellow student and seriously injuring two others before being taken into custody, police said. The Viertola school in Vantaa, Finland's fourth-largest city, has around 800 pupils and 90 staff. Children in grades one to nine, or aged seven to…
2 Apr
An 80-year-old man has been arrested at an airport after 27 years on the run, British police said on Tuesday. Richard Burrows, who is accused of historic sexual abuse of children, was arrested at Heathrow on Thursday after returning to the UK from Thailand, a spokesman for Cheshire Police said. The force said he has…
2 Apr
The alleged ringleaders of a suspected far-right plot to attack the German parliament and overthrow the government will go on trial in Frankfurt in May, a court said on Tuesday. Nine suspected members of the "terror group" behind the planned coup will stand trial from May 21, a court in the city said. Among the…
2 Apr
Eight people, including suspected seven migrants, died in a car accident in southern Albania at dawn on Tuesday after trying to flee police, authorities said. The accident occurred after the driver of the vehicle -- an Albanian -- lost control of the car near the southern Albanian city of Permet, just kilometres (miles) from the…
2 Apr
A 12-year-old opened fire Tuesday at a school outside the Finnish capital Helsinki, injuring three other children, police said, adding that the attacker was in custody. The school in Vantaa has around 800 pupils and 90 staff. Children in grades one to nine, or aged seven to 15, attend the school. "There are people injured…
1 Apr
Russia's FSB security service has said that four people arrested Sunday in a foiled "terror" plot had provided money and arms for the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall last month.
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