EUROPE

Three firefighters died battling the blazes, Portugal’s prime minister said, adding the country was going through “difficult days.”

At least 19 people have died in floods in central Europe, including in Romania, Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic, according to officials.

French man Dominique Pélicot testified he and “everyone else in this room” are rapists, contradicting those who said they didn’t know the woman hadn’t consented.

This police investigator records the wreckage, measures the shrapnel and gathers the bodies, even without knowing if Russia will ever be held accountable.

The Trump golf course suspect described himself as a defender of Ukraine and Taiwan. But a former representative of Ukraine’s International Legion said he was all talk.

Ukraine is under pressure to cut a deal to end the war, especially if Trump wins, but these soldiers in the east are not ready to give up land.

The Champions Parade for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games included a march down the Champs-Élysées and a medal ceremony led by President Emmanuel Macron.

After Keir Starmer led the Labour Party to a big win in July’s election, U.K. strategists say they have relevant insights to share with Kamala Harris’s campaign.

The Russian president issued his sternest warning to date about the use of Western weapons in Ukraine ahead of a meeting of British and U.S. leaders.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’s immigration and abortion stances drew a stern response from Pope Francis, who advised Catholics in the U.S. to choose the “lesser evil.”

The State Department accuses RT, the Russian media outlet, of running intelligence operations and procuring weapons for the war in Ukraine.

Without revealing more details, Zelensky once again talked about the plan he will bring to President Joe Biden on how to end the war with Russia.

The Paris mayor wants the Olympic logo to stay on the monument. Gustave Eiffel’s descendants say the tower shouldn’t be a permanent billboard.

Zelensky said that the Russian counteroffensive had long been expected and was planned for.

Hundreds with severe medical needs were displaced by July’s missile strike on Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, but the hospital was rebuilt and many returned.

The newly unveiled sculpture at Antrim Castle Gardens in Northern Ireland was compared online to Robin Williams’s character in the 1993 movie “Mrs. Doubtfire.”

The Scottish government granted free tuition to female students from Afghanistan to continue studying medicine after the Taliban upended their education.

Iran has cultivated ties with criminal networks in the West to carry out a recent wave of violent plots in the United States and Europe.