Kerstin Gurtner froze to death after she was left ‘exhausted, hypothermic, and disoriented’ on Grossglockner mountain

© Instagram

EU enlargement chief Marta Kos says Ukraine’s EU membership is “inevitable” and has expressed confidence that Hungary will not block the country’s accession, even as Budapest objects to moving ahead during wartime

© Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Face à la baisse des dons, face aux attaques mêmes des donateurs traditionnels, comme les États-Unis, le Haut-Commissaire des Nations unies aux droits de l’homme tire un bilan inquiétant de l’année écoulée. Parce qu’au-delà des suppressions de postes qui touchent toute l’ONU, la crise budgétaire empêche ses enquêteurs de faire leur travail, à savoir documenter les crimes internationaux.

Alors que Volodymyr Zelensky est sous pression de l’administration américaine pour qu’il accepte le plus vite possible un accord de paix avec la Russie, l'institut de recherche allemand Kiel Institute prévient que l’aide militaire à l'Ukraine pourrait atteindre son plus bas niveau cette année. Selon l’institut de recherche allemand, les Européens, qui fournissent désormais l'essentiel de cette aide, ne parviennent plus à compenser l'arrêt de l'aide américaine.

The former French president was released from prison in November after appealing a five-year sentence. He has now released a memoir called ‘Diary of a Prisoner’ covering his brief spell behind bars

© AP

Latest package in dismantling of environmental rules also suggests repealing hazardous chemicals database

• Europe live – latest updates

Datacentres, AI gigafactories and affordable housing may be exempt from mandatory environmental impact assessments in the EU under a proposal that advances the European Commission’s rollback of green rules.

The latest in a series of packages to cut red tape calls for permitting processes for critical projects to be sped up and reducing the scope of environmental reporting rules for businesses.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Olivier Matthys/EPA

© Photograph: Olivier Matthys/EPA

© Photograph: Olivier Matthys/EPA

Britain aligns with some of Europe’s hardline governments in calling for change to allow Rwanda-style migration deals

• Analysis: Can weakening human rights ever protect them? Labour’s gamble raises fears on the left

The UK has joined some of Europe’s hardline governments in calling for human rights laws to be “constrained” to allow Rwanda-style migration deals with third countries and more foreign criminals to be deported.

Twenty-seven of the 46 Council of Europe members including the UK, Hungary and Italy have signed an unofficial statement that also urges a new framework for the European convention of human rights, which will narrow the definition of “inhuman and degrading treatment”.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

© Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

© Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a proposal in the Federal Register indicating it plans to review foreign tourists' social media accounts before entry.

Report found avoidable security failures including broken CCTV and lack of coordination at museum, hearing told

• Louvre robbery in video, photographs and maps

The thieves who stole crown jewels from the Louvre in October evaded police with just 30 seconds to spare due to avoidable security failures at the Paris museum, a damning investigation has revealed.

The investigation, ordered by the culture ministry after the embarrassing daylight heist, revealed that only one of two security cameras was working near the site where the intruders broke in on the morning of Sunday 19 October.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Jeanne Accorsini/SIPA/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Jeanne Accorsini/SIPA/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Jeanne Accorsini/SIPA/Shutterstock

Italian cooking added to ‘intangible cultural heritage’ list after campaign by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government

Unesco has officially recognised Italian cooking as a cultural beacon, an endorsement hailed by the far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, whose government has put the country’s food at the heart of its nationalistic expression of identity.

The announcement, made on Wednesday during the UN cultural body’s assembly in Delhi, means Italian cuisine – from pasta and mozzarella to wine and tiramisu – will be inscribed on the coveted list of “intangible cultural heritage”.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Remo Casilli/Reuters

© Photograph: Remo Casilli/Reuters

© Photograph: Remo Casilli/Reuters

Christmas tourists are noticing a growing military presence in Lapland, where Santa Park doubles as a bomb shelter

Billed as the official home town of Santa Claus, or joulupukki as he is known in Finland, the city of Rovaniemi offers every imaginable Father Christmas-related experience – from a visit to his “office” on the Arctic Circle to reindeer sleigh rides. He even has his own branch of the Finnish design house Marimekko.

But this Christmas season, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the world coming in search of Santa, Finnish Lapland’s snow-covered capital is becoming an increasingly popular destination for international military visitors.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Jouni Porsanger/The Guardian

© Photograph: Jouni Porsanger/The Guardian

© Photograph: Jouni Porsanger/The Guardian