European officials fear that Washington is attempting to place pressure on Kyiv after trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi

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Members of Italy’s Ladin minority, which settled a millennium ago in the Dolomite mountain hamlet that's now an Olympic host city, are disappointed the Winter Games will not spotlight their culture

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Tests found that three times the recreational dose of MDMA was found in Sandrine Josso’s body

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Les Pays-Bas font machine arrière. Mardi 27 janvier, le tribunal d'Amsterdam est revenu sur le statut des chauffeurs de la plateforme Uber, les requalifiant en travailleurs indépendants et non plus en employés. Une décision saluée par la plateforme américaine, mais vivement critiquée par les syndicats, qui marque un revirement inattendu alors qu'Uber avait multiplié les revers judiciaires en Europe ces dernières années.

La guerre en Ukraine a fait près de deux millions de victimes militaires russes et ukrainiennes – blessés, tués et disparus confondus – selon une étude publiée mardi 27 janvier par un cercle de réflexion américain. Moscou a subi le plus gros des pertes, avec 325 000 morts sur un total estimé à 1,2 million de victimes depuis l'invasion de l'Ukraine il y a près de quatre ans, selon le Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Près d’un mois après le drame de Crans-Montana, l’affaire a pris des airs de crise diplomatique entre la Suisse et l’Italie. Rome a rappelé son ambassadeur pour protester contre la libération sous caution du propriétaire du bar Le Constellation, Jacques Moretti. Une décision rarissime entre deux pays européens, d'autant plus pour un fait divers, et qui serait motivée davantage par des considérations politiques que judiciaires.

Comes as dozens of residential buildings, a church, a kindergarten and a high school were damaged in Odesa

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The European Union and India have reached a free trade agreement to deepen economic and strategic ties after nearly two decades of negotiations

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Whether at home or abroad, the pattern of ducking difficult arguments and calling it pragmatism is the same

There comes a point in a prime minister’s career when foreign travel offers respite from domestic trouble. Even when relations with the host country are tricky, as Britain’s are with China, the dignifying protocols of statecraft make a beleaguered politician feel valued.

Next comes the phase where missions overseas feel dangerous because plotters can organise more openly against absent leaders.

Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist

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Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning

When Donald Trump reassured the world that he would not, after all, use force to acquire Greenland – after days of threatening as much – he was doing what he does best: turning geopolitics into a spectacle. Whether Trump ever truly believed the US should acquire a vast Arctic territory belonging to a Nato ally is secondary to the fact that, once again, he ensured that Europe and the rest of the world were focused on his agenda.

Trump is not a politician who responds to events – he seeks to make them. Not because he is deeply invested in policy detail, but because he understands a defining feature of contemporary politics: attention is power. In an era of information overload, there is no scarcity of data or analysis; what is lacking is attention. And whoever controls that controls the debate.

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Unable to get near Ukraine’s main port, Moscow is pounding the city from afar with missiles and drones

Outside the Kadorr apartment complex in Ukraine’s Black Sea city of Odesa, about 500 metres from the seafront, residents and rescue workers mill around in freezing temperatures.

Above an office on the 25th floor, a block of wall has been blown out by a Russian drone. Below, rubble and glass have been moved quickly into piles as owners survey cars crushed by the falling masonry.

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