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    Venice
    ‘Are we joking?’: Venice residents protest as city starts charging visitors to enter

    Day trippers will have to pay €5 to visit Italian city under scheme designed to protect it from excess tourism
  • Orbán with Trump on red-carpeted steps at Mar-a-Lago

    Viktor Orbán
    ‘Waiting for Trump’: Viktor Orbán hopes US election will change his political fortunes

  • The Aedes albopictus mosquito on human skin

    Climate crisis
    Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, says expert

  • James Cleverly walks past a sunken small boat during a visit to Lampedusa port.

    Immigration and asylum
    Rwanda flights will deport asylum seekers ‘indefinitely’, says Cleverly

  • Daily Life In Gaza Amid Hamas-Israel Conflict, Palestine - 23 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (14446835j) Displaced Palestinians are sheltering in a UNRWA-affiliated school after fleeing their homes due to Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 23, 2024. Daily Life In Gaza Amid Hamas-Israel Conflict, Palestine - 23 Apr 2024

    Israel-Gaza war
    Germany to resume funding of Unrwa aid operations in Gaza

  • Pedro Sánchez with his wife, Begoña Gómez

    Pedro Sánchez
    Spanish PM considers resigning, blaming political ‘harassment’ as wife faces investigation

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Opinion & analysis

  • Ana Schnabl

    Do you speak a ‘big’ global language? Here’s what my tiny language can teach you

    Ana Schnabl
  • Rishi Sunak speaking at a lectern in front of union jack flags

    Europe’s political leaders have been slow to recognise financial reality of long wars

  • A protest against the decision to release members of the ‘wolf pack’ gang on bail in Madrid, Spain, June 2018

    A brutal rape case convulsed Spain. We made a film to let survivors know they are not alone

    Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomes former British PM Boris Johnson to Kyiv, 22 January 2023.

    Did Boris Johnson really sabotage peace talks between Russia and Ukraine? The reality is more complicated

    Emma Ashford
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  • Rishi Sunak speaking at a podium

    Sunak rejects offer of youth mobility scheme between EU and UK

  • Trucks parked in a carpark with an industrial building in the background and a security barrier in the foreground

    Brexit plans in ‘complete disarray’ as EU import checks delayed, say businesses

    • A UK border agent checks a lorry at a customs point

      UK to delay start of health and safety checks on EU imports – report

    • Students walking on a wide path outside in the sun on a university campus, with grass and trees outside and a building in the background

      Brussels proposes return to pre-Brexit mobility for UK and EU young people

    • Pharmacy shelves

      Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns

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Pictures & video

  • The father of anti-fascist campaigner and Italian teacher who has been in prison in Hungary for 14 months says she is bearing up, despite being in conditions more akin to those found&nbsp;in a Nazi or fascist era

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    Ilaria Salis's father likens her treatment to fascist countries of the past – video

  • Pro Palestine protesters fought to be heard over a military band in Berlin

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    Military band almost drowns out pro-Palestine protesters as Sunak visits Scholz – video

  • The skies above Athens were filled with an orange haze as dust clouds arrived from the Sahara after days of strong winds from the south

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    Athens sky turns orange with dust clouds from Africa – video

  • Homelessness is on the rise globally, and the Czech Republic has the highest rate in central and eastern Europe. The Guardian visited Prague, for a long time a popular destination for tourists, to see how even this sector caters for the city’s visitors - and to meet the range of people aiming to tackle the causes of homelessness in all its forms.

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    Why Prague's homeless are resorting to poverty tourism – video

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