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25 August 2024

  • Custom officers Line Andersen and Gard Belgen in the main harbour in Oslo.

    Norway’s border guards on front line in battle against ‘cocaine tsunami’

  • Björn Höcke, AfD leader in Thuringia, speaks at a rally in the state capital Erfurt on 20 August.

    Germany looks on nervously as AfD crowds cheer nation’s most feared politician ahead of state elections

24 August 2024

  • Police officers standing on a blocked-off road with a building in the distance behind

    Man suspected of attempted arson against synagogue arrested in France

  • Pavel Durov

    Telegram app founder Pavel Durov reportedly arrested at French airport

  • Two police officers hold individual

    German police make second arrest over fatal stabbings in Solingen

  • Woman and man in blue jumpsuits smiling with arms around each other.

    Nasa says astronauts stuck in orbit to return with SpaceX crew in February, not on Boeing Starliner

  • Alain Delon buried in ‘strictest privacy’ in grounds of his estate

  • Dutch beach restaurants add sunscreen ‘shots’ to menu in fight against cancer

  • ‘Decadent and passive’: China cracks down on ‘throwing eggs’ card game

  • Hamas sends delegation to Cairo peace talks but rules out direct participation

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Resorts on Spain’s Costa Brava struggle with invasion of jellyfish as seas warm

18 August 2024

  • Mao Zedong, in Beijing in 1967

    ‘Monument to history’ battle between US and China over future of Mao’s secretary’s diary

    Beijing believed to be behind court bid to secure account of life inside Communist HQ

17 August 2024

  • Stephane Sejourne and David Lammy on their visit to Israel to push for peace on Friday.

    It’s never too late for peace in the Middle East – we must break the cycle of violence

    David Lammy and Stéphane Séjourné
  • A group of people standing amid the rubble of destroyed buildings

    Both Israel and Hamas’s leaders believe there is more to gain by fighting on

  • Crowds enjoy the No Art festival in Amsterdam, where organisers asked people to put aside their phones.

    ‘The party is back’: rise in European music festivals banning smartphones

  • A man wearing a brown polo shirt stands with his arms crossed.

    Journalist Jeff German was stabbed to death. Las Vegas watches as the accused politician goes on trial

11 August 2024

  • small island made up of hill of red rock, with some green covering, next to a bridge

    No water, no power, hordes of birds: who will buy San Francisco’s $25m private island?

  • Oleg Orlov gestures as he talks sitting in an armchair

    Oleg Orlov: the veteran dissident who accepted jail to ‘show there is resistance inside Russia’

10 August 2024

  • Palestinians gather in the yard of a school hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza City

    Israel strikes on Gaza school site kill at least 80, Palestinian officials say

  • outside Berghain in the evening

    Club culture
    DJs join Ravers for Palestine boycott of top Berlin techno club Berghain

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