If the residents of Apes’ Den are pleased to see a larger than usual number of Britons snapping them, cooing over them or, indeed, edging gingerly away from them, they give little indication of it. It is not much of a stretch to suggest
Venice has missed tourists – but not their bad habits. In an echo of the pre-pandemic era, authorities have been cracking down on uncouth behaviour as visitors flock back to the lagoon city. A French tourist was fined €150 (£128) after paddling
Italy’s public broadcaster Rai has come under fire for broadcasting leaked CCTV footage of a fatal cable car crash that killed 14 people near Stresa, in the north of Italy. Last month, the cable car connecting the Lake Maggiore resort town of Stresa to a nearby mountain
Russian officials have reacted angrily after the head of Ukraine’s football association unveiled a new national team shirt emblazoned with a map of Ukraine that includes Crimea. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and has sought to integrate the peninsula into Russia permanently, but it is internationally
Two cars have been swallowed by a sinkhole on a street in Rome, one of many to blight the Italian capital in recent years. A Mercedes SUV and a Smart car fell into the six-metre-deep and 20-metre-long chasm on Via Zenodossio in
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has gone on trial for the alleged illegal campaign financing of the massive, showman-style political rallies he staged during his failed re-election bid in 2012. Sarkozy, president for one term from 2007 to 2012, was not present for
Hundreds of thousands of European citizens could find themselves in limbo after 30 June and left without documented legal rights to remain in the UK if the Home Office does not clear a backlog of more than 320,000 applications for post-Brexit residency status, campaigners
A German “jab to freedom” bill that would from this weekend lift social-distancing rules, testing requirements and curfews for people who have been fully vaccinated, is drawing criticism for discriminating against young people still months from getting their first dose. The legislation,
For half a century, the police procedural Tatort (“Crime Scene”) has provided a rallying point for Germany’s culturally diverse regions, gathering viewers around their television sets every Sunday night to watch detectives from across the country solve gruesome murders over the course of 90
Represented by MEPs Hannah Neumann and Marc Tarabella, Delegation Arab Peninsula in the European Parliament hosted a virtual debate on Migrant Workers in the Gulf. The meeting was attended by some international organizations, unions, NGOs, and representatives of some Gulf states. William