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News Articles: Europe

Gisèle Pelicot arrives at the courthouse in Avignon, France, on Dec. 19, 2024, in advance of the verdict being read out from the trial of her ex-husband and more than four dozen other men who were found guilty of aggravated rape against Gisèle Pelicot.

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Dozens of men are found guilty of raping a woman in France who was drugged to sleep

A French court found dozens of men guilty of raping a woman whose then-husband had drugged her unconscious over the course of a decade. The court sentenced the husband to a maximum 20 years in prison.

December 19, 2024
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
In this Nov. 11, 2019 file photo, French former president Nicolas Sarkozy attends a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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  • Europe

France's highest court upholds corruption conviction of ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy

Sarkozy, 69, faces a year in prison, but is expected to ask to be detained at home with an electronic bracelet — as is the case for any sentence of two years or less.

December 19, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Maj. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the Russian military's radiation, chemical and biological protection unit, attends a briefing in Kubinka Patriot park, outside Moscow, Russia, on June 22, 2018.

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  • Europe

An explosion kills the head of Russia's nuclear defense forces in Moscow

A senior Russian general was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow. A Ukrainian official said the country's security service carried out the attack.

December 17, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during a plenary session at the German Bundestag, where he faces a vote of confidence, Berlin, Germany, on Monday.

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  • World

Germany's Scholz loses a confidence vote, triggering new elections

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had hoped for this outcome when he called for the confidence vote, analysts say. His aim: to win fresh elections in February and come back with a stronger mandate.

December 16, 2024
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  • H.J. Mai
Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Dec. 14, 2024.

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  • Europe

Israel will close its Ireland embassy over Gaza tensions

Israel said Sunday it will close its embassy in Ireland as relations deteriorated over the war in Gaza, where Palestinian medical officials said new Israeli airstrikes killed over 46 people including several children.

December 16, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A man waits for evacuation to western Ukraine as he stands by a bed in a city theatre that hosts refugees running from Russian offensive in the Donetsk region, in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024.

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  • Europe

Russia targets Ukrainian infrastructure with widespread aerial strikes

Russia launched a massive aerial attack against Ukraine on Friday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described it as one of the heaviest bombardments of the country's energy sector since Russia's full-scale invasion.

December 13, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Nazan Rashidi, executive director of human rights group the Syria Campaign, in Berlin, Wednesday.

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  • Europe

She fled during Assad's regime. Now this Syrian activist is considering going home

Germany hosts almost a million Syrians who fled war and dictatorship. The toppling of the Assad regime has raised questions for exiles about their next step.

December 12, 2024
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  • Rob Schmitz
After rocket strikes, workers at a Ukrainian thermal power plant repair the facility to restore power as temperatures drop, Oct. 4. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/12/07/nx-s1-5214478/russia-ukraine-war-energy-plant"target="_blank"   >Click here for the full story. </a>

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Russia targets Ukraine's energy grid as winter sets in. Here's how one plant copes

Russian strikes continue to destroy Ukraine's power grid, prompting nationwide power cuts while temperatures drop. Workers at a damaged plant try to restore its operation before the winter freeze.

December 09, 2024
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  • Joanna Kakissis
The choir, clergy and guests stand as they sing during a ceremony to mark the reopening of the landmark Notre Dame Cathedral, in central Paris, on Saturday.

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  • Europe

Photos: Notre Dame Cathedral reopens, with its first service since a devastating fire

The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral rang on Saturday evening in Paris for the first time since a fire heavily damaged the Paris landmark in 2019.

December 07, 2024
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  • James Doubek,
  • Eleanor Beardsley,
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Evacuees from the city of Pokrovsk arrive at the train station in Pavlohrad, Ukraine, on Oct. 15. They are fleeing to cities in western Ukraine or other points in Europe. Pokrovsk, a coal mining center in eastern Ukraine, is under frequent Russian artillery barrages and aerial attacks.

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  • World

Ukrainians face another harsh winter as Russia attacks coal country

Many Ukrainians continue to leave their coal mining towns, with the front line of the war with Russia nearby.

December 07, 2024
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  • Michael Robinson Chávez
French President Emmanuel Macron, left, is to shake hands with President-elect Donald Trump as he arrives at the Elysee Palace, on Saturday.

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  • World

Trump receives a Paris welcome full of presidential pomp from France's Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Donald Trump to Paris on Saturday with a full a dose of presidential pomp as the two men resumed the relationship they established during Trump's first term.

December 07, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
French lawmakers debate in the National Assembly in Paris Wednesday. A majority of legislators voted to oust Prime Minister Michel Barnier, forcing him to resign.

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  • Europe

France's toppled government adds to the European Union's bigger political problems

The political instability in France — and simultaneously in Germany, where the governing coalition collapsed a month ago — could have wide-ranging consequences.

December 05, 2024
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  • Willem Marx
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier (center) talks to people at the National Assembly before French lawmakers vote on a no-confidence motion in Paris Wednesday.

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  • Europe

French lawmakers oust the prime minister after just 91 days, toppling the government

France's government has been toppled by a no-confidence vote in parliament, for the first time sine 1962. Prime Minister Michel Barnier served the shortest time in the post in France's modern history.

December 04, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx and
  • Eleanor Beardsley
Journalists for the British newspapers <em>The Guardian</em> and <em>The Observer</em> voted to strike for several days this week and next to protest the planned sale of the <em>Observer</em>, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.

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  • Media

Nearly 500 journalists walk out at 'The Guardian' and its sister paper

Nearly 500 journalists have walked out of the Guardian and its sister paper, the Observer, to protest what they see as a betrayal of the paper's values: the planned sale of the Observer to a startup.

December 04, 2024
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  • David Folkenflik
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova in Moscow, May 31.

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  • Europe

Putin's planes took Ukrainian kids into 'coerced' Russian adoption, a Yale report says

Russia's president and senior Kremlin officials financed and facilitated the transport of at least 314 Ukrainian children into "coerced" foster care and adoptions, a new Yale University report says.

December 03, 2024
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  • Joanna Kakissis
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