Sources: BBC
In Italy, the Carabinieri Art Squad seizes more than 2,100 forged artworks worth more than €200 million (US$215 million) that were intended to be sold at auction houses across Europe and also uncovers two art forgery workshops in Tuscany and Venice. 2024-11-11
Pope Francis strongly condemns European mistreatment of migrants crossing from the Mediterranean Sea and refusal to offer aid as means to reject them from entering European nations as "a grave sin", and requests the expansion of migrant access routes to the continent. 2024-08-29
Malta announces that beginning on July 14, they will become the first country in Europe to close their borders to unvaccinated travellers, only allowing those with a Maltese, British or European vaccination certificate to enter following an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. 2021-07-9
New Zealand health officials report the first community case of COVID-19 in more than two months in a person who travelled from Europe. 2021-01-24
Vodafone acquires Liberty Global's European operations, including German cable operator Unitymedia, for €18.4 billion. 2018-05-9
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
European interior ministers and transport officials hold emergency talks in Paris following the recent attack on the Thalys train between Amsterdam and Paris. 2015-08-29
Support for the protests in Turkey spread across Europe with demonstrators gathering outside the EU Parliament in Brussels, and France. 2013-06-4
The United States scraps the final stage of its European missile shield. 2013-03-16
Tens of thousands of people march in Asia, Europe and North America, protesting against job cuts, inequality, and austerity measures. 2012-05-1