Many reacted angrily last month when the media revealed that three soldiers patrolling the border had been detained and handcuffed after they fired more than forty warning shots towards a group of migrants who were breaking through the border fence. Shortly afterwards, Mr Tusk announced plans to re-introduce the exclusion …

Prof Tara Spires-Jones, president of the British Neuroscience Association, said the EMA’s decision will come as “a disappointment to many”. But she said there were reasons to remain hopeful. “Lecanemab has shown that it is possible to slow down disease progression, and research does work. Now we need to ramp …

But who would want to ruin the plans of hundreds of thousands of French travellers and disrupt the start of the Olympic Games? One security source suggested in French media that the arson attacks bore all the hallmarks of the extreme left. However, Mr Attal has refused to speculate who …

Hours before the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics, French rail company SNCF says its high-speed network has been targeted by “malicious acts” aimed at paralysing the system. Several high-speed TGV lines have been hit to the west, north and east of Paris and queues have formed at Gare Montparnasse …

Russia and its ally Belarus are banned from sending athletes to the Games amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The 36 Russian and 24 Belarusian athletes who are in Paris will compete as Individual Neutral Athletes (INA), which means there will be no national anthems or flags on display. …

Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Thursday that the teenaged suspect had been detained at his home in Dnipro, adding that he had rented at least three apartments in Lviv ahead of the shooting. One local website identified the suspect as a young footballer who had taken part in …

Novak Djokovic, Simone Biles and Noah Lyles are among the biggest names in Paris 2024. Source link

At least they could. But now the hordes of tourists disgorged by the railway every few minutes are taking their toll, tramping across the pastures towards the lake and crushing the flowers. Edelweiss has not been seen around the Riffelsee for some years. The Zermatt authorities have decided enough is …

The black box sits on the army truck dashboard like a talisman, its tiny screen lighting up with warnings when Russian drones are above us. We are driving fast along a country road in the darkness near the front lines outside Kharkiv. Like many in this war, the soldiers inside …

Pricing starts at $24 (£20) for sporting competitions, although you can get $15 tickets (£13) for some football events if you buy four at once. At the upper end of ticket prices there are $2,700 (£2,300) “Category A” seats for the opening ceremony – which takes place along the River …

France has provisionally been chosen to host the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The French Alps bid, put forward as the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) preferred vote in June, was approved on Wednesday – providing France provides financial guarantees. The French government has been unable to provide the necessary state …

Cologne-Bonn is Germany’s sixth-busiest airport – behind Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Berlin Brandenburg, Munich and Frankfurt. In May, Munich Airport was forced to shut for two hours after six climate protesters glued themselves to a runway. Eight people were arrested, but the disruption led to 11 flights being diverted and about 60 …

“We are ready,” declared a cheerful President Emmanuel Macron, his customary swagger seemingly undented by weeks of political turmoil prompted by his recent shock decision to dissolve the French parliament. The security operation – the phrase hardly does justice to the scale of it – involves the largest peacetime deployment …

Recent months have seen a number of incidents that have raised suspicion of an outside attempt to exploit and stoke divisions within France, particularly over the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. In June, five coffins draped in a French flag and bearing the inscription “French soldiers of Ukraine” were left …

Celine Dion greeted fans in Paris on Tuesday, further stoking rumours that she’s set for a come-back performance at the opening ceremony of the Olympics Games. In December 2022, the singer revealed that she had been battling a rare neurological condition called Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS), and cancelled all of …

Adrenaline junkies can now fly a dizzying 120 metres (394ft) above the streets of Berlin on Europe’s highest swing. Visitors are attached to a safety harness and pushed into the void above Alexanderplatz in the centre of the city. Based on the rooftop of a hotel, visitors have to take …

A Ukrainian embassy employee was lightly wounded by one of the devices, while the other five were dealt with by security services in November and December 2022. González denied the charges against him, but the judges said trial had been shown considerable evidence confirming his guilt. All the components for …

Every six months, under each new council presidency, the EU’s foreign and defence ministers hold informal meetings to discuss the biggest global issues facing the bloc. The next set of meetings will take place on 28-30 August and were to be held in Budapest, but on Monday Mr Borrell announced …

Croatia’s President Zoran Milanovic said he was shocked by the “savage, unprecedented” mass shooting and called for rules on gun ownership to be “even more rigorous”. “It is a frightening warning and a last call to all competent institutions to do more to prevent violence in society,” President Milanovic wrote …

“It’s beyond time for this American citizen, our dear colleague, to be reunited with her loving family,” Mr Capus added. Speaking to journalists when her custody was extended in May, Ms Kurmasheva said she had not spoken to her two children since her arrest, adding that her health was deteriorating. …