Europe

PARIS, Sept 27 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron was hit with an egg while he was visiting Lyon on Monday to promote French gastronomy.

Footage from Lyon Mag showed the egg bouncing off the president's shoulder area, without breaking, as he walked through a crowd while a protester shouted "Vive la revolution" (long live the revolution).

A man was arrested after the incident at the international catering, hotel and food trade fair in the city, French media said.

A spokeswoman for Macron's office did not answer a request for comment.

KYIV, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warned on Monday of a joint response with Russia to military exercises involving troops from NATO member countries in neighbouring Ukraine.

Lukashenko, who gave no details of the response, also blamed the West for what he said was a looming humanitarian catastrophe this winter after migrants were left stranded and freezing on the Belarusian-Polish border.

BERLIN, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Olaf Scholz, the chancellor candidate of German center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), said here on Monday that he would seek to form a so-called "traffic-light" coalition with the Green Party and Free Democratic Party (FDP) after the SPD had won the nail-biting general election on Sunday.

LONDON (AP) — Google is heading to a top European Union court Monday to appeal a record EU antitrust penalty imposed for stifling competition through the dominance of its Android operating system.

The company is fighting a 2018 decision from the EU’s executive Commission, the bloc’s top antitrust enforcer, that resulted in the 4.34 billion-euro ($5 billion) fine — still the biggest ever fine Brussels has imposed for anticompetitive behavior.

LA PALMA, Canary Islands (AP) — A Spanish island volcano that has buried more than 500 buildings and displaced over 6,000 people since it erupted last week stopped releasing large clouds of ashes and molten rock on Monday, although scientists said it was too early to declare the eruption phase finished.

Live footage from the public Canary Islands Television showed the Cumbre Vieja range in the La Palma island without the plume of ash that had been emerging from the main vent that opened on Sept. 19.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of at least 5.8 struck the Greek island of Crete on Monday, killing one person and injuring several others, while damaging homes and churches and causing rock slides near the country’s fourth-largest city.

The quake sent people fleeing into the streets in the city of Heraklion, and schools were evacuated. Repeated aftershocks rattled the area, adding to damage in villages near the epicenter.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is embarking on a potentially lengthy search for its next government after the center-left Social Democrats narrowly beat outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc in an election that failed to set a clear direction for Europe’s biggest economy under a new leader.

Leaders of the parties in the newly elected parliament were meeting Monday to digest a result that saw Merkel’s Union bloc slump to its worst-ever result in a national election, and appeared to put the keys to power in the hands of two opposition parties.

ST. PETERSBURG, September 26./TASS/: The new president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), Luc Tardif, told TASS that he would possibly return to Russia in two months, making a working trip.

MOSCOW, September 26./TASS/: Gazprom fully meets its obligations regarding gas supplies to Europe and is ready to export more, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the 'Moscow. Kremlin. Putin' program on the Rossiya-1 TV channel. .

Gazprom is ready for this. "It fully meets its commitments. Absolutely nobody has any claims whatsoever. And they can’t have them. Is Gazprom ready to continue signing contracts? Gazprom is interested in this," Peskov stressed.

MOSCOW, September 26./TASS/: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases across Russia grew by 22,498 in the past 24 hours, amounting to 7,420,913 overall, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Sunday.

This is the highest growth since August 8 in absolute terms. The relative growth rate is 0.3%.

In particular, 2,055 new cases were reported in St. Petersburg, 1,215 in the Moscow Region, 574 in the Samara Region, 546 in the Voronezh Region and 531 in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. At present, there are 612,409 active cases across Russia.