Europe already knew it needed to strengthen its own long-range missile capabilities. But that urgency has sharply increased after the United States decided it would no longer deploy a planned missile battalion to Germany.

By Sabine Siebold and Andreas Rinke BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters) - A planned drawdown of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany should spur Europe to strengthen its own defences, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Saturday,

From sickle cell crises to kidney injury, changing patient profiles and rising temperatures are creating new clinical blind spots.

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Officials are investigating similar attacks across Europe, all claimed by a shadowy Islamist group that may be using low-cost, unsophisticated methods to sow fear in Jewish communities.

On that note, the European energy benchmark, Dutch TTF natural gas, nearly doubled by mid-March after the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran r

Volkswagen Group is facing increased pressure from its board to further cut costs despite already announcing radical measures, such as axing around 50,000 jobs in Germany by 2030 and reducing production capacity by up to 3 million units per year to 9 million,

The continent, which is warming faster than the global average, saw wildfires, floods and a sub-Arctic heat wave, the European State of the Climate report said.

When your rover absolutely, positively must reach Mars on a budget, call SpaceX.