As the economic crisis in Spain deepens, several regions are considering charging students who bring lunch from home up to €3 to use the school cafeteria, the latest in a series of reforms that critics claim are hurting the most vulnerable.
Spanish emergency services said Saturday that hundreds of people have been evacuated from the wildfire-stricken Canary Islands and the northern Galicia region. A hot summer following a dry winter has left the country at high risk of forest fires.
A crack discovered in a steel tank containing a nuclear reactor at a Belgian power plant will likely keep the station closed, the country’s nuclear safety agency said on Friday. Repairing the crack is "practically impossible," the agency said.
At least 15 children were freed by Russian authorities after having been held for years in an underground bunker by a Muslim sect in Kazan in eastern Tartarstan. Some 60 members of the group had lived for more than 10 years below a mosque.
Belgium's nuclear watchdog is considering permanently closing two of the country's seven electricity-producing sites after routine checks found possible cracks in a reactor, according to internal reports viewed by AFP Wednesday.
Italy's economy shrank by 0.7% in the second quarter of the year, government statistics released on Tuesday showed, pushing the country further into recession. Italy has been the eurozone’s most stagnant economy for more than a decade.
Russian prosecutors on Tuesday asked for three-year jail terms for members of the punk band Pussy Riot. The women were charged with hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after performing a stunt criticising Vladimir Putin in a Moscow cathedral.
Athens police staged a mass sweep of undocumented migrants over the weekend, questioning some 6,000 people and pledging to deport nearly 1,600. A conservative government minister described the country’s influx of foreign nationals as “an invasion”.
Romanian Interior Minister Ioan Rus resigned on Monday citing "unacceptable" levels of "criticism and pressure" from various political figures over his ministry's handling of an impeachment referendum on President Traian Basescu.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy hinted for the first time on Friday that he might request an EU bailout for his country, saying that his decision would be contigent on the exact terms of such a deal.
