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A German lawmaker said on 13 August she was detained when entering Turkey earlier this month based on social media posts she made in 2019, adding that she would still travel to Turkey and speak her mind about its government.

The death toll from the Maui wildfires reached 93 on Sunday (13 August) as relatives of the missing searched for signs their loved ones may still be alive, while survivors sought solace at church services.

A Russian warship on Sunday (13 August) fired warning shots at a cargo ship in the southwestern Black Sea, the first time Russia has fired on merchant shipping beyond Ukraine since exiting a landmark UN-brokered grain deal last month.

Argentine voters punished the country's two main political forces in a primary election on Sunday (13 August), pushing a rock-singing libertarian outsider candidate into first place in a huge shake-up in the race towards presidential elections in October.

Ukrainian forces targeted the Crimean Bridge and a number of other unspecified targets on the Crimean peninsula on Saturday (12 August) in a flurry of rocket and drone attacks, but there were no casualties or damage, Russia's Defence Ministry said.

Armenia on Saturday (12 August) urged the UN Security Council to hold a crisis meeting on Nagorno-Karabakh, citing a "deteriorating humanitarian situation" after accusing Azerbaijan of blocking supplies to the disputed region.

Finland should aim to leave the EU in the long term, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine means European unity should be the priority for now, the far-right Finns Party's Jussi Halla-aho said ahead of a party congress on 12 August.

Six people died after a migrant boat trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain capsized early on Saturday (12 August), and another two people were possibly missing, French authorities said.

Next week, Lithuania will shut two of its six border checkpoints with Belarus, as a response to escalating tensions between the neighbours, with Vilnius warning of a provocations threat by Minsk.

President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden may be headed for a criminal trial, US Special Counsel David Weiss said after assuming that role on 11 August, in a sign that court drama could play an outsized role in the 2024 election.

Thousands of Niger coup supporters took to the streets on Friday (11 August) to protest against plans by West African nations to deploy a military force to the country, as a key regional meeting on a possible intervention was scrapped.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy broadened his battle against graft on Friday (11 August), firing all the heads of Ukraine's regional army recruitment centres as the war with Russia enters a critical stage.

Poland's populist, nationalist government is increasingly taking an anti-German, anti-European Union stance in the run-up to the 15 October legislative elections in the hope of mobilising its most loyal followers, analysts say.

The EU has delivered Ukraine 223,800 shells under the first part of a plan to provide a million artillery rounds to aid Kyiv's fight against Russia, a spokesman said on Friday (11 August).

The Spanish government has put forward its finance minister, Nadia Calviño, as a candidate to lead the European Union's lending arm, the European Investment Bank (EIB), a Spanish government official told Reuters on Friday (11 August).

After a slow 2022, Germany, Italy and France are starting to see a major boost to their trade balance as energy prices are going down and imports from China dwindle.

The number of corporate insolvencies in Germany rose significantly in July, with almost a quarter more filings by companies than in the same month of the previous year, the Federal Statistical Office announced on Friday (11 August).

It’s become cliché to talk about inventions that can ‘change the world’, but when it comes to transversal technologies – cross-cutting tools with the potential to transform multiple industries – the moniker feels like an understatement, writes Andrew Chakhoyan.

The alliance of Dutch centre-left PvdA (S&D Group) and GroenLinks (Greens) parties has taken the lead in polls in the Netherlands after joining forces ahead of the upcoming November national parliament snap election, according to Europe Elects' latest analysis.

France “fully supports” the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) decision to action a standby military force on the borders of Niger, the Foreign Affairs ministry announced late on Thursday (10 August).