A Danish court on Wednesday handed a Polish man a four-month prison sentence and ordered him deported for punching the country's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in June.

The French capital’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo is now using the 33rd Olympiad’s success in order to restore her image, before 2026’s municipal elections.

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) initiated court proceedings against the social media platform X on Tuesday (6 August), according to Ireland's High Court website.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) met for its 61st plenary session to discuss the timeline of all its next reports but failed to reach an agreement on this issue.

Denmark's Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard declared on Wednesday that he "does not rule out anything" when it comes to preventing Swedish criminal teenagers from entering Denmark.

Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as successor to former political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, the group said on Tuesday (6 August).

A jailed Kurdish leader and a Turkish writer on the other side of the bars have used their penpal exchanges to write one of Turkey's highest-selling books.

Bangladesh's Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus has been tapped to lead an interim government after mass protests forced longtime prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee, the presidency announced early Wednesday (7 August).

A Chinese academic was convicted on Tuesday (7 August) of illegally acting as a foreign agent in the United States by collecting information about New York-based activists supporting democracy in China and sharing his findings with Beijing.

Despite being on holiday, German chancellor Olaf Scholz weighted in on a looming new crisis over the government’s budget, arguing that a legal assessment shows that additional loans can be used for infrastructure investment while circumventing the country’s strict ‘debt brake’.

The parliament of Spain's Catalonia region is set to elect a new leader this week, although the event may be upstaged by the return of its former leader from self-imposed exile, despite a pending warrant for his arrest.

With Giorgia Meloni, Italy has probably the most openly anti-abortion prime minister in western Europe, but terminating pregnancies in the majority-Catholic country that hosts the Vatican has never been easy.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her newly selected vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, campaigned for the first time together on Tuesday (6 June) in Philadelphia.

According to Swedish specialists, prioritising care for osteoporosis patients reduces fractures and saves lives and money. More investment is needed to deal with under-diagnosis and under-treatment in Sweden, they say. 

European Union governments approved on Tuesday (6 August) the first regular payment to Ukraine of €4.2 billion ($4.58 billion) of the €50 billion the EU has set aside as financial support for Kyiv.

A deadly virus affecting sheep and goat continues to ravage Greek and Romanian farms, prompting both governments to impose restrictions on animal transport to curb the disease’s spread.

The European Medicines Agency's human medicines committee has triggered outrage among patients by recommending the revocation of a market authorisation for a medicine used in the treatment of a rare liver disease.

A return of Donald Trump to the White House could fragment the global economic order and potentially trigger a full decoupling between US-allied countries and China, say experts.

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has developed a text watermarking tool that could help it comply with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, but the company has yet to release it, reportedly because it fears losing users. 

Venezuela's opposition leaders on Monday (5 August) appealed to the army, the main pillar of support for President Nicolás Maduro, to turn on him and "take the side of the people" after his disputed reelection.