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Watch: French police deploy armoured vehicles in Paris and Marseille

French police deployed Centaure armoured vehicles in Paris and Marseille on Saturday as authorities stepped up security during protests over the rising cost of living.

24 October 2026

Europe News

French police fire tear gas to disperse protest in Lyon

French police fired tear gas to disperse around 150 protesters outside Lyon 3 University, in an area where demonstrations were banned.

24 October 2026

Europe News

Major fire breaks out at Hitler's mountain retreat in Bavaria

The building, completed in 1938, was designed to be used as a retreat for Nazi officials, although it was rarely used by Hitler himself.

24 October 2026

Europe News

Italy's cities in security 'lockdown' for Saturday protests

On 24 October Rome will be locked down with 1,500 officers, Milan with 1,800 police and soldiers.

23 October 2026

Europe News

Police find 74 migrants in overcrowded conditions in Ceuta

The National Police has found 74 migrants crammed into a house in Ceuta's Príncipe district, including 10 unaccompanied minors, and arrested a man on suspicion of labour exploitation, assault and facilitating irregular immigration.

22 October 2026

Europe Today

French police union sues French government over recent violence

Stanislas Goudon, a representative from the French national police union Alliance, comments on the recent wave of protests and violence in France from a police perspective, criticising significant government ill-preparedness for the demonstrations.

22 October 2026

Europe News

Polish teenager, 16, suspected of plotting massacre

A 16-year-old suspected of plotting a massacre has been detained by police in Warsaw, Poland. Investigators believe the teenager was preparing to kill multiple people. Officers searching his home discovered what they described as "an entire arsenal of dangerous items".

21 October 2026

Europe News

France vows major security operation involving military this weekend

Some military forces from Operation Sentinelle will be deployed to free up police and gendarmes for the expected demonstrations, French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said.

20 October 2026

Europe Today

'Everything is destroyed,' Paris pharmacy owner says after protests

France will impose new curfews in areas where needed on Tuesday, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said, adding that the measures introduced in several cities the previous day had "helped keep the night calm".

20 October 2026

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Fireworks, petrol bombs and water cannon as unrest escalates in Albania

Protesters threw petrol bombs and fireworks at police in Tirana on Monday, as anti-government demonstrations escalated and riot police responded with water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets.

20 October 2026

Europe News

France arrests man believed to have links to Limoges town hall fire

The destruction of the building has become a symbol of the violent rioting that erupted on the margins of a day of protests that were called in response to anger about the rising cost of living and conditions in schools.

20 October 2026

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Police patrol Paris streets under overnight curfew

Paris police imposed an overnight curfew on Monday around Place de la Republique and Les Halles after France’s worst rioting in years. Streets were calm.

20 October 2026

Europe News

German police: Two men surrender after driving car into airport fence

In August, an attack with an explosives-laden drone took place at the same airport. German authorities blamed that on Russia, an allegation denied by Moscow.

19 October 2026

Europe News

Northern Ireland and Scotland schools sent hoax bomb warnings

Meanwhile, Scottish police said "threatening messages" had also been sent to "a number of schools across Scotland".

19 October 2026

Europe News

'We tore it up': French looters brag online as police 'lost control'

More than 2,000 shops were hit and the damage is put at hundreds of millions of euros, leaving the government to answer for its failure to see the violence coming.

19 October 2026

Australia

Australian lawmaker 'critically' hurt in car attack, officials say

The 43-year-old male driver was detained by civilians, Mason said, and then arrested by police, who found a knife in his car.

19 October 2026