Officials estimate the damage exceeds €1 billion

As a war correspondent I’ve seen this strategy used before. Putin is weaponising the savage eastern European winter

In the winter of 1993, during the siege of Sarajevo, people burned books and furniture to keep warm. Water froze in pipes. Electricity vanished for the duration of the war. Children slept in coats and hats, their breath visible in dark rooms. Cold itself became a weapon of war.

I remember, when I was reporting from the Bosnian capital, seeing doctors operating by candlelight or wearing camping headlamps. I remember old people chopping wood in the park in the centre of the city until there were no trees left, then dragging it home on sledges. I remember the ground being too frozen to bury the many dead on the football pitch, which later became a cemetery. I remember a terrible, frozen day when I went to an old people’s home near a frontline and counted dead body after dead body, all frozen in their sleep.

Men in custody for allegedly broadcasting content likely to incite hatred from French coast

French authorities have arrested two far-right British activists in what is believed to be the first case of its kind.

An order had been issued on Friday prohibiting British activists from gathering for a planned “stop the boats” protest nicknamed Operation Overlord in the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. The order was due to expire at 8am on Monday but was extended for two days.

Business wing of Christian Democrats aims to scrap legal right to fewer hours, saying people should need permission

The business wing of Germany’s leading Christian Democratic Union party is proposing a ban on the legal entitlement to work part-time, arguing that those wishing to work fewer hours should have to acquire special permission to do so.

Currently, every employee in Europe’s largest economy has a fundamental right to carry out part-time work, with many, particularly women, often needing to do so for reasons relating to childcare or looking after elderly relatives.

L’intelligence artificielle générative est une nouvelle fois au cœur d’une controverse majeure. L’Union européenne a annoncé l’ouverture d’une enquête officielle visant Grok, le chatbot développé par xAI, soupçonné d’avoir produit des dizaines de milliers d’images à caractère pédocriminel en l’espace de quelques jours seulement. Cette affaire relance de …

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Adriana Turk grew up in Australia believing that her entire family tree had been wiped out in Hitler’s genocide. She tells Maira Butt how a DNA test helped her discover long-lost family living all over the world – and why it sends a message of hope to the Jewish community

SCNF has caused controversy by banning under-12s from its premium offering. Fiona McIntosh thinks it’s a stroke of Gallic genius

Britain might be chilly, but you can still enjoy balmy weather on the Iberian peninsula

The Baltic Sea region has been on high alert after a string of power cable, telecom link and gas pipeline outages

Fifty killed in one incident as Italian authorities estimate 380 people may have drowned last week

Up to 380 people may have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean last week as Cyclone Harry battered southern Italy and Malta, the Italian coastguard has said, as a shipwreck with the loss of 50 lives was confirmed by Maltese authorities.

Just one person, who was hospitalised in Malta, survived the shipwreck, which happened on Friday.

Exclusive: Hundreds of works by the artist and poet Peter Kien have new home in UK after campaign by Judy King

They survived the Nazis, were confiscated by the communists, and for the last three decades they have been jealously guarded, bound in red tape, by a museum in the Czech Republic. Due to the attentions of an overzealous Czech customs guard and the vagaries of the British weather, a happy conclusion had been in doubt to the very end.

But last Thursday a small suitcase filled with 681 drawings, love letters, poems and manuscripts created by the Jewish artist and poet Peter Kien in the Theresienstadt ghetto in German-occupied Czechoslovakia between 1941 and 1944 finally made a blustery landing at Heathrow.