Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has wrapped up a two-year investigation into the Alternative for Germany. The party's far-right branch is already under surveillance.
Growers likely took advantage of less-populated streets due to the coronavirus pandemic, police say. But the reduction in city traffic also made the cannabis plants' pungent odor more noticeable.
The Biden administration has a lot of work ahead to repair alliances, particularly in Europe. NPR takes a look at what the U.K. and European Union expect from an incoming administration.
Putin oversaw efforts to develop a vaccine, and now he's rushing to get it to his fellow citizens. It's also being used to increase Russia's influence in eastern Europe, the Balkans and elsewhere.
Angela Merkel has been one of Germany's most popular leaders. She's stepping down at the end of this year. Over the weekend, her party chose a new leader and possible successor to her.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, about the arrest of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and its implications for global relations with Russia.
Alexei Navalny was arrested Sunday after arriving back in Russia from Germany, where he had been recovering from nerve agent poisoning. A judge ordered that he remain in custody for 30 days.
Russia's opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained upon arrival in Moscow on Sunday — five months after he had been poisoned. He had been recuperating in Germany since the summer.
Russian authorities detained the country's top opposition leader after he landed in Moscow on a flight from Berlin. Navalny had been gone nearly five months since he was poisoned last August.
France has been slowed in its vaccine rollout by the large number of people who say they are opposed to vaccinations. But the rapid spread of COVID-19 appears to be changing some skeptics' minds.
"The stark reality is that we will run out of beds for patients in the next couple of weeks unless the spread of the virus slows down drastically," London Mayor Sadiq Khan said Friday.
Germany lags the U.S. and others in the number of women on boards at major companies. "[N]ot many changes are made voluntarily, and progress is very slow," said the federal minister for women.
"Now we are working at full speed to approve it & make it available in the EU," said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. It would be the second vaccine to get EU authorization.
The U.S. is slapping new tariffs on French handbags, cognac and other products. The import taxes are the latest weapons in trans-Atlantic trade disputes involving Internet companies and jet makers.
Government officials in France are under fire for the slow rollout of the coronavirus vaccine. The country has one of the highest death tolls from the pandemic in Europe — more than 66,000.
While daily new infections have declined somewhat, more than 1,000 Germans are dying per day. All 16 German states are in favor of keeping restrictions in place.
"Coming to play golf is not what I would consider to be an essential purpose," Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says amid speculation that President Trump might visit.
Critics say the ruling party overhauled public media to serve as a mouthpiece and a state-backed oil refiner's purchase of a newspaper chain brings more outlets under party loyalist control.
