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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party will choose its candidates to fight in October elections on Monday, with analysts saying a shift further to the ​right by many members could threaten the Israeli leader's chances of winning.

France's top court on Friday blocked ​a bill banning social media access for under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of ‌expression and delivering a setback for President Emmanuel Macron, who asked his government to rewrite the legislation.

Pope Leo on Sunday said innocent people are being killed and wounded in Ukraine and ​Russia, and called for an end to the ‌conflict.

Hungary's former nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was ousted after 16 years in power in an election in April, ​has urged his supporters to restore democracy in the country which he said had ‌been crushed by the new government.

A senior member of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's ruling conservatives faced pressure to resign on Friday after having a baby born through ​a surrogate mother in the United States, contrary to his own ‌party's opposition to surrogacy.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte hosted U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday at the Palace of Versailles, once the ​opulent residence of Louis XIV, the Sun King, as part of efforts ‌to improve transatlantic relations.

General Roberto Vannacci launched his new far-right party on Sunday, posing a direct challenge ​to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's grip on power as he seeks to pull Italy ‌in a more hardline, nationalist direction ahead of elections next year.

Thousands ​of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana on Tuesday night protesting against ‌a development planned by a company linked with Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast.

Russia said on Saturday it had recalled its ambassador to Armenia for consultations in protest at its rapprochement ​with the European Union as a June 7 ‌election nears.

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin has called for a thorough investigation into the death of a Congolese-born man after he ​was restrained outside a Dublin department store, an incident that has shocked ‌the country's small Congolese community.

British passengers and staff on the ​cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak will ‌be taken to a hospital in northwest England for an initial isolation period once they are repatriated, UK health ​authorities said on Saturday.