Conservative forces in both Poland and Slovakia used the cover of the pandemic to try to push through stricter limits on abortion this week. They succeeded in Poland, but just failed in Slovakia. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal on Thursday ruled that abortions in the case of a malformation of the …

North Macedonia on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States on security issues linked with new telecommunications technologies, which is expected to indirectly bar China’s tech giants, Huawei and ZTE from the race in the country to build 5G.

By the time he was 14 years old, nine of Besi Handroj’s classmates had left their homes in the northern Albanian region of Puka for the United Kingdom. In 2014, aged 15, Handroj decided to join them, dreaming of a ride on the London Eye and a career that would …