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Some countries saw prices as high as 300 or 400 euros per megawatt hour

The risk of reinfection with the omicron coronavirus variant is more than five times higher, and it has shown no sign of being milder than delta, a study showed, as cases soar across Europe and threaten year-end festivities.

Armenia's parliament approved a law Friday that would allow employers to fire workers who refuse to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative test result

Climate activists blockaded Amazon warehouses in three European countries on Friday, part of a global effort to pressure the e-commerce giant on one of its busiest days of the year to improve working conditions and end business practices that hurt the environment.

Concerned by the misuse of political advertising to undermine elections, the European Union on Thursday unveiled plans to help people better understand when they are seeing such ads online and who is responsible for them.

The European Union's drug regulator on Thursday authorized Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for use on children from 5 to 11 years old, clearing the way for shots to be administered to millions of elementary school pupils amid a new wave of infections sweeping across the continent.

Oil prices are getting slammed with downward volatility on renewed COVID-19 fears.

Biotech giant Regeneron received another massive boost after its COVID-19 antibody cocktail received approval from a European commission for use and marketing.

More than a year and a half after COVID-19 concerns prompted the U.S. to close its borders to international travelers from countries including Brazil, China, India, South Africa, the United Kingdom and much of Europe, restrictions are shifting to focus on vaccine status.

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released an “investigative report" looking at “how Europe’s energy crisis serves as a dire warning to the United States if Democrats enact President Biden’s budget blowout," according to a press release exclusively obtained by FOX Business.

President Biden and European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen announced a new agreement on Sunday that includes lifting steel and aluminum tariffs as part of what Biden called “a new era of transatlantic cooperation.”

The Latest on the Group of 20 summit taking place in Rome: Leaders have expressed “broad support” for a landmark deal to establish a 15% global minimum corporate tax that aims at deterring multinational countries from using clever accounting to elude taxes by using low-rate havens.

A forthcoming flight to space by a Japanese billionaire will allow the public to have a closer look at life on board the International Space Station, the president of Space Adventures, a company that organized the flight, said Friday.

Russia has the potential to boost natural gas supplies to Europe, where surging gas prices have ramped up pressure on consumers, the Kremlin said Thursday.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on Friday announced a landmark agreement to overhaul international tax rules.

Ireland has agreed to join a groundbreaking international agreement for a global minimum tax rate on corporations around the world, sacrificing its prized low-tax policy that has attracted major multinationals including Apple, Facebook and Google.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would press ahead with his government’s pledge to end the influx of low-paid migrant workers despite the country’s labor shortages, describing it as a radical change for the British economy.