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  • Shafts of light surround the Eiffel Tower during the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.

    France
    ‘It was like us – a chaotic mess’: France enjoys Paris Games opening ceremony

    Most French newspapers praise the Olympics spectacle but far-right commentators reject ‘woke propaganda’
  • two people in plane cockpit overlooking cityscape

    Airline industry
    Top pilots’ union sounds alarm as regulators consider smaller crew sizes

  • Passengers at the Eurostar terminal at St Pancras station in central London.

    Eurostar
    Further Eurostar cancellations hold up Paris 2024 passengers

  • Ukrainian forces near Marinka.

    Ukraine war live
    Russia-Ukraine war live: EU says conflict an existential threat to the bloc

  • A clutch of buildings on a hillside, perched near rugged rocks by the sea

    Italy
    Cinque Terre’s Path of Love reopens with charges to ease Insta-tourism

  • A tourist shades himself beneath an umbrella at San Nicolas viewpoint in front of La Alhambra

    Spain
    Extreme heat poses ‘real risk’ to Spain’s mass tourism industry

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Opinion & analysis

  • four men sit in chamber with name plates with their countries' names on them

    Should Ukraine join Nato?

    Open letter
  • Nicholas Potter

    The German thirst for beer is waning – it’s not cool to be drunk any more

    Nicholas Potter
  • Passengers faced disruption at Gare Montparnasse train station in Paris on Friday.

    Who launched attack on the French rail network – and why?

  • RUSSIA-POLITICS-ARMS<br>In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin visits Uralvagonzavod, the country's main tank factory in the Urals, in Nizhny Tagil on February 15, 2024. (Photo by Ramil SITDIKOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by RAMIL SITDIKOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Russia is lying about its economic strength: sanctions are working – and we need more

    Eight European finance ministers
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Brexit news

  • An EU flag flies outside the UK parliament in London

    Courts place UK’s post-Brexit scheme for EU citizens at risk, experts warn

  • Neil Kinnock shaking hands with Labour supporters, one holding a union jack

    Neil Kinnock tells Labour MPs ‘tide is shifting’ towards closer ties with Europe

    • Dani standing on a balcony.

      Officer from Italy forced to quit UK police due to post-Brexit barriers

    • Polytunnels at Haygrove farm in Herefordshire

      Indonesians who paid thousands to work on UK farm sacked within weeks

    • France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) talks to Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Meeting of the European Political Community at the Blenheim Palace garden in Woodstock, near Oxford, on July 18, 2024

      No more ‘basket-case Britain’: Europe welcomes Starmer reset in UK-EU ties

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Pictures & video

  • One person was killed and another injured after a firework factory exploded in Bulgaria in a town near the capital, Sofia

    0:48

    Firework factory explodes in town near Bulgaria's capital – video

  • A colossal painted head of a woman partially submerged in the water by the bank

    Artworks in the Seine and a Swedish shipwreck: photos of the day – Friday

  • A UN peacekeeper stands at Nicosia’s Toyota showroom inside the buffer zone in the central of the divided capital

    Where time has stood still for 50 years: the UN buffer zone in Cyprus – in pictures

  • 401 MEPs voted in favour, 284 against and 15 abstained, landing von der Leyen a second five-year term

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    'Emotional moment': Ursula von der Leyen re-elected European Commission president – video

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