French police late Monday used tear gas as they dismantled a new migrant camp in the centre of Paris set up to house hundreds of refugees evacuated from makeshift suburban shelters without being relocated, AFP reported.

Police in Georgian capital Tbilisi fired water cannon and tear gas against hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Central Election Commission (CEC) on Sunday to support a call by opposition parties for a rerun of parliamentary elections, held on 31 October, Reuters reported. The opposition is demanding the resignation of the CEC chief Tamar Zhvania, saying the elections were rigged.

Spanish police set up temporary checkpoints, as residents of Madrid and nine nearby towns began a partial lockdown, news wires reported. Hours after the city limits were closed off to all non-essential traffic, masked police could be seen setting up temporary checkpoints and stopping cars for about 20 minutes before moving on, an AFP correspondent said.

A Greek police operation is underway on the island of Lesbos to move thousands of migrants and refugees left homeless after a fire destroyed their overcrowded camp into a new facility on the island, AP reported. Police said on Thursday morning’s operation included 70 female police officers who were approaching asylum-seekers with the aim of persuading them to move to the new camp in the island’s Kara Tepe area. No violence was reported as the operation began.

Dozens of migrants, including children, have been discovered hiding in a refrigerated truck, Austrian police said on Wednesday after arresting a suspected member of a network smuggling people through the EU.

Police in the English city of Birmingham declared a "major incident" after reports that a number of people were injured in stabbings early on Sunday, news wires reported.

Police in Belarus on Wednesday said they had detained hundreds and shot at protesters in a third night of violence over a disputed presidential election. Western governments have condemned the crackdown and the European Union said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss Belarus at an extraordinary meeting on Friday, news wires reported.

Significantly more members of the Italian Mafia live in Switzerland than previously assumed, the annual report for 2019 of the Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) said. Published last week, it confirms an estimate by Italian prosecutors and experts that around 400 Mafiosi live in Switzerland.

Thirty-one migrants were discovered alive in the back of a refrigerated lorry during a check by police and customs officers at the German-Czech border on Wednesday, German police confirmed to dpa.

Slovakia has seized 1.5 tons of methamphetamines, with an estimated street value of some €2bn, which was being smuggled into the country and originated in Mexico, officials said on Thursday. The seizure was described by Slovak authorities as the country's largest-ever.