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Swedish mountain shrinks by two metres in a year as glacier melts
Sweden’s only remaining mountaintop glacier, which until 2019 was also its highest peak, lost another…
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‘Great to be back’: tears in London as quarantine-free travel from France resumes
Not until the automatic doors of Eurostar arrivals opened could Sue Stevens be sure that her daughter,…
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Belarus sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya leaves Tokyo on flight to Vienna
Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has left Japan on a Vienna-bound plane after she refused to fly…
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Belgium opens manslaughter investigation over flood deaths
A Belgian judge has opened an investigation for possible manslaughter over floods there that claimed…
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Europe’s unluckiest train station gets new lease of life as hotel
It earned the nickname “Titanic of the mountains”, but now the monumental and ill-fated train…
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Basque country hails ‘forgotten’ retelling of Picasso’s Guernica
The grief-snapped mother is still there, cradling her dead child 84 years on, as is…
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Pope to stay in hospital for seven days as details of surgery revealed
Pope Francis is alert, breathing without assistance and in a good overall condition after surgery…
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Ryanair passenger numbers soar as Covid vaccine restores travel confidence
Ryanair’s passenger numbers surged in June, with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccination programmes across Europe…
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Why pick a holiday in Gibraltar? ‘We couldn’t go anywhere else’
If the residents of Apes’ Den are pleased to see a larger than usual number of Britons…
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Venice renews crackdown on bad behaviour as tourists return
Venice has missed tourists – but not their bad habits. In an echo of the…
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Italian broadcaster under fire over leaked footage of cable car crash
Italy’s public broadcaster Rai has come under fire for broadcasting leaked CCTV footage of a fatal cable…
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Ukraine’s football kit with map featuring Crimea causes outrage in Russia
Russian officials have reacted angrily after the head of Ukraine’s football association unveiled a new…