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Piero Terracina, one of the last survivors of Italy’s tiny Jewish community who were deported to Nazi death camps during the Second World War,...

The death toll from a gas explosion in an apartment building in eastern Slovakia has risen to seven. Firefighters and local officials in the city...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed to lack any knowledge of the overall tax burden rising under Conservative plans, despite party figures predicting...

The Eiffel Tower shut down, France’s vaunted high-speed trains stood still and several thousand people protested in Paris as unions launched nationwide strikes over...

Italian daily Corriere dello Sport has been accused of fuelling racism with its front page headline in Thursday’s edition of the newspaper. The paper ran...

A European health body has said it cannot back vaping as a safe aid to quitting smoking. The European Respiratory Society (ERS) said it cannot...

The leaders of the main parties have been sharply criticised for “politicising” the London Bridge terror attack in the run up to the General...

Members of Germany’s junior governing party have chosen a left-leaning duo as their new leaders, a decision that could endanger the future of Chancellor...

Dutch police have arrested a 35-year-old homeless man on suspicion of stabbing three teenagers on a street in The Hague that was crowded with...

Thousands of climate activists have staged a protest at open-pit coal mines in eastern Germany, pouring on to the premises to urge the government...