Europe

Major telecom companies agreed to stop using critical components made by Chinese companies in their mobile infrastructure by 2029.

By Christopher F. Schuetze

France’s parliamentary elections were intended to bring change, but many fear the political gridlock means their struggle to pay bills will continue.

By Liz Alderman

Thousands of years of culture and history converge in this vibrant, coastal city known as the “Pearl of the Aegean.”

By Alex Crevar

The U.S. and Germany announced episodic deployments of longer-range American missiles in Germany starting in 2026.

By Ivan Nechepurenko and Paul Sonne

Customers in Europe may see an influx of new apps and services for making tap-and-go purchases.

By Adam Satariano

The blaze appeared to cause minimal damage to the cathedral in Rouen, France, but measures were taken to protect its precious objects from any water damage.

By Amelia Nierenberg, Constant Méheut and Ségolène Le Stradic

As leaders gathered in Washington to mark the anniversary of the organization, they heard starkly different messages from two American presidents on NATO’s future.

By Peter Baker

A major declaration by NATO.

By Natasha Frost

The government promised housing elsewhere. We followed the buses and found a desperate situation.

By Sarah Hurtes and Ségolène Le Stradic

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made the accusation, which was in a declaration approved by the 32 leaders of the alliance, during the NATO summit in Washington on Wednesday.

By Associated Press

The statement was a major departure for the alliance, which until 2019 never officially mentioned China as a concern.

By David E. Sanger

In an open letter, the French president rejected any role in government for the far-left France Unbowed party, setting the stage for a heated showdown.

By Roger Cohen

Vladimir Kara-Murza’s legal representatives said they were denied access to their client in a remote Siberian penal colony for six days.

By Valerie Hopkins

The specter of a second Donald J. Trump presidency injects new urgency into the NATO summit this week. President Biden and other leaders agree Ukraine should have an “irreversible” path to membership.

By Edward Wong, Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper

Demonstrators protesting mass tourism, housing shortages and high costs of living doused people dining at restaurants in the city with squirt guns.

By Reuters

The women died at the scene near London on Tuesday, the police said. The BBC identified the victims as the wife and children of one of its commentators.

By Claire Moses

Locals confronted visitors to the Catalan capital in a whimsical (but very serious) demonstration against mass tourism and housing shortages.

By Amelia Nierenberg and Rachel Chaundler

Britain gave Rwanda hundreds of millions of pounds, even though no asylum seekers were deported to the Central African nation under the agreement.

By Abdi Latif Dahir

Discovering evidence of deadly deluges of snow from the past could help protect people on mountains around the world, researchers say.

By Katherine Kornei

By welcoming visitors with glorious scents and a natural beauty that rivals Provence in France, the annual lavender harvest has revitalized the medieval town of Brihuega.

By Shaan Merchant