Alors que 160 000 foyers étaient toujours privés d’électricité dans le centre du Portugal, dimanche 1er février, à la suite du passage de la tempête Kristin en milieu de semaine dernière, Lisbonne a annoncé le déblocage d'une enveloppe de 2,5 milliards d'euros pour aider les sinistrés à reconstruire leur maison. En raison de nouvelles pluies attendues sur le pays, les autorités ont également décidé de prolongé l'état de calamité.
Des dizaines de milliers de Tchèques se sont rassemblés dimanche 1er février à Prague pour soutenir le président pro-ukrainien Petr Pavel face au nouveau gouvernement dirigé par le milliardaire Andrej Babis. Le chef de l’État, dont les pouvoirs sont limités par la Constitution, est désormais engagé dans un conflit ouvert avec le ministre des Affaires étrangères, dirigeant d’une formation eurosceptique appelée les Automobilistes, dont les méthodes sont déjà vivement contestées.
Seen by rivals as a dangerous rightwinger, others hope the controversial culture minister can snatch Paris from the left
She was the first woman of north African and Muslim heritage to hold a major French government post and she redefined political celebrity in France. Now Rachida Dati wants to become mayor of Paris and take the city from the left, which has been in power for 25 years.
“I want to bring back authority,” Dati, France’s culture minister, told Le Figaro last month, promising a law and order drive to arm municipal police with guns. Her opponents call her a dangerous rightwinger who would turn the French capital into a “Trumpist laboratory”.
Ce lundi 2 février marque la fin de l'épisode de froid glacial qui s'est abattu sur la Pologne durant le week-end. Les températures sont descendues jusqu'à -30°C dans le nord et l'est du pays. À Varsovie, les températures ne devraient pas dépasser -15°C au plus chaud de la journée. La municipalité de la capitale a pris des mesures pour venir en aide aux plus vulnérables.
Ce lundi 2 février marque la fin de l'épisode de froid glacial qui s'est abattu sur la Pologne durant le week-end. Les températures sont descendues jusqu'à -30°C dans le nord et l'est du pays. À Varsovie, les températures ne devraient pas dépasser -15°C au plus chaud de la journée. La municipalité de la capitale a pris des mesures pour venir en aide aux plus vulnérables.
Halkidiki might have a reputation for its superclubs, but Emilee Tombs discovers the Greek destination is also ideal for a relaxing beach break with friends
Europe’s India and Vietnam deals signal a historic shift away from coercion towards cooperation that respects developing countries’ sovereignty
For the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, the EU’s trade pact with India was the “mother of all deals”. Seen from the other end of the telescope, it looked like the mouse of all deals, with just €4bn (£3.5bn) in tariff reductions – a rounding error in a €180bn trading relationship. But that misses the point: this is about economic heavyweights resetting the terms of their cooperation because of Donald Trump’s use of tariffs as a tool of economic and political compulsion.
Last week marked a turning point. In upgrading ties with Vietnam in the wake of its India deal, Europe is no longer trying to lock Asian partners into fixed industrial roles. The EU wants Hanoi to move into hi-tech production. That shift will probably displace Vietnam’s labour-intensive manufacturing elsewhere. India is an obvious beneficiary, able to absorb that demand.
Employees of Ukraine’s largest private energy firm, DTEK, were travelling about 40 miles from frontline, says police
A Russian drone attack on a bus carrying mine workers in Ukraine’s central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region has killed at least 12 people, officials said.
The bus was driving about 40 miles (65km) from the frontline, according to police. Images published by Ukraine’s state emergency service showed what appeared to be an empty bus, its side windows shattered and windscreen hanging from the front.
Cherub at landmark church causes ecclesiastical and political uproar with alleged resemblance to Italian PM
Italy’s culture minister and the diocese of Rome have launched investigations after claims were made that an angel in a landmark church in Rome was restored in the likeness of the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni.
The resemblance was first flagged by the newspaper La Repubblica, which noted that one of the two angels flanking a marble bust of Italy’s last king in the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina now had “a familiar, astonishingly contemporary face”.
Film with a cast headed by Anthony Hopkins tells the story of a supercar marque that began in a small Bologna garage
Dozens of Maseratis of 1920s and 1930s designs have been built specially for a feature film about the Italian car company’s earliest days, with a cast headed by Anthony Hopkins.
Maserati: The Brothers tells the story of siblings driven by their love of cars to create an automotive company from scratch. It all began in a little garage in the Italian city of Bologna: in 1914 they founded a sports supercar company that went on to make some of the fastest vehicles on the planet.
Eighteen-year-old Swiss national injured in blaze at Swiss ski resort died on Saturday
A teenager injured in the fire that engulfed a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana during new year celebrations has died in hospital, taking the death toll from the blaze to 41.
The Wallis canton’s public prosecutor, Beatrice Pilloud, said in a brief statement on Sunday: “An 18-year-old Swiss national died at a hospital in Zurich on January 31. The death toll from the fire at Le Constellation bar on January 1 2026 has now risen to 41.”
Un Suisse de 18 ans est décédé, samedi 31 janvier, des suites de ses blessures, faisant passer à 41 le nombre de personnes décédées dans l'incendie d'un bar de la station suisse de Crans-Montana la nuit du Nouvel an, ont annoncé les autorités judiciares locales.
Au Portugal le bilan provisoire de la tempête Kristin est désormais de huit morts. La bombe météorologique comme l’ont qualifié les spécialistes a affecté le centre du pays au nord de Lisbonne, mercredi dernier. Les dégâts sont extrêmement importants.
Exclusive: Vitaliy Kim, who was handpicked by Zelensky to be governor of the Mykolaiv Oblast region in Ukraine, has signalled a shift towards compromise in an interview with The Independent
La capitale belge, Bruxelles, est dans la tourmente : elle n’a toujours pas de gouvernement régional et, depuis le vendredi 30 janvier, cela fait 600 jours que les habitants ont voté ! Un record que les Belges détenaient déjà pour leur absence de gouvernement fédéral pendant 541 jours en 2010-2011. Les citoyens se sentent trahis par leur classe politique.
Les négociations directes entre Kiev, Moscou et Washington pour tenter de trouver une issue à la guerre en Ukraine reprendront ce mercredi 4 février à Abou Dhabi, a annoncé le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky. « Les dates des prochaines rencontres trilatérales ont été fixées : le 4 et le 5 février à Abou Dhabi », a précisé M. Zelensky sur X.
About 20 countries including G7 states in talks on rare earths including calls for US to guarantee minimum price
Ministers from the US, EU, UK, Japan, Australia and New Zealand will meet in Washington this week to discuss a strategic alliance over critical minerals.
The summit is being seen as a step to repair transatlantic ties fractured by a year of conflict with Donald Trump and pave the way for other alliances to help countries de-risk from China, including one centred on steel.
Whether in streets draped in anti-drone nets or deep in urban basements, Kherson residents go about their everyday activities with the constant threat of Russian bombing
Galyna Lutsenko, a crisis psychologist, is moving busily among a small group of children seated around a table in a basement in Kherson, unique in being Ukraine’s only leading city almost directly on the frontline with Russian forces – and one where people live with the daily threat of attack.
She dangles a plasticine butterfly on a thread over a playhouse on the table. Her own house in the city, she says, was hit by Russian shelling in 2024, injuring her in the leg and stomach.
The Doomsday Clock is ticking ever more loudly as arms-control mechanisms fail and leaders become more reckless. The time to be alarmed is now
Keir Starmer’s tentative pivot to the Dragon Throne has played well in Beijing, though not in Trumpland. That’s partly because, like other needy western leaders, Britain’s prime minister did not dwell on awkward subjects such as human rights abuses, the Jimmy Lai travesty, spying and Taiwan. But in talks with President Xi Jinping, one vital issue was avoided altogether and should not have been: China’s dangerous, unexplained, secretive and rapid buildup of nuclear weapons.
More than the climate crisis, global hunger, Kaiser Trump’s Prussian militarism and the ever prevalent threat of pandemic disease, the uncontrolled proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is the most immediate, existential threat to humanity. Last week, the Doomsday Clock advanced to 85 seconds to midnight – closer to Armageddon than ever before. “Nuclear and other global risks are escalating fast and in unprecedented ways,” warned the clock-watchers, via the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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