Sources: CNN
Finnish-Canadian sportswear mogul Peter Nygård is sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexual assault. 2024-09-9
After 18 years under construction, the Olkiluoto 3 reactor in Finland, Europe's most powerful nuclear power plant unit at 1.6 GW, begins delivering regular electrical output. 2023-04-16
Australia and Israel announce their first suspected cases of monkeypox, both in people who had recently travelled to Europe. 2022-05-20
Turkish President Recep Erdoğan says 18,000 refugees have crossed into Europe as of this morning and that 25,000–30,000 more may cross today. Erdoğan reiterates that Turkey cannot handle another refugee wave from Syria and that it will keep its borders open. 2020-02-29
In a speech in Munich, Angela Merkel says that Europe must not rely on its former allies. 2017-05-28
Avian flu virus H5N8 outbreaks are reported in birds in India, Germany, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and several other European nations. The World Health Organization advised on 17 November that human infection is possible, but unlikely, based on information available. 2016-11-26
More than a dozen alleged ISIS-linked, terrorist members of Rawti Shax, a European offshoot of the Iraqi Kurdish jihadist network Ansar al-Islam, are arrested in a coordinated, multi-nation sweep by police across Europe. The operation dismantled an integrated cell in Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, and Germany. The group is accused of radicalizing fighters, planning attacks targeting Norwegian and British diplomats in the Middle East, and planning to establish a caliphate in Iraq's Kurdistan region. 2015-11-12
A French air traffic controllers strike causes the cancellation of hundreds of flights throughout Europe. 2015-04-8
Early 2012 European cold wave: The death toll throughout Europe rises to over 400 with the Danube River freezing over for 170 km. 2012-02-8
Stock markets in the United States and Europe fall due to uncertainty in the Middle East and rising oil prices. 2011-02-23