Category: Europe
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Torrential rain has killed four people in eastern Spain, with rescue helicopters deployed in the Valencian Community including Oliva. Why this stretch of coast floods the way it does, and why early tolls in flash floods usually move.
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Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation naming Israel Katz and twelve senior officials over the alleged mistreatment of flotilla detainees. What an investigation of this kind can and cannot reach — and why most never get to a courtroom.
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Albanian students have been in the streets of Tirana for four days over university conditions and corruption, demanding Edi Rama’s resignation. The prime minister blames foreign interference — a claim that is not impossible, and not yet evidenced.
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At least eight people were killed and around a million customers lost electricity in the latest Russian strikes on Ukraine. The outage figure, not the death toll, is the one that describes what this campaign is for — and why October damage becomes a November problem.
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Russia has detained Hokkaido Shimbun correspondent Yuki Imai in Sakhalin on espionage charges carrying up to twenty years. No evidence has been published, and Russian espionage trials are held largely in closed session.
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Student protests in Tirana have turned violent as the self-named Flamingo Revolution escalates. We know less about this than we would like, and say so — Albanian student movements have twice reshaped the country’s politics.
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The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV, 71, has lung cancer and had surgery on Tuesday to remove a growth. The type and stage have not been disclosed — and there is no mechanism in canon law for declaring a pope incapacitated.
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Unions put Tuesday’s turnout near half a million, and the Justice Ministry says more than 6,800 people have been held, most of them minors. The unions joining is exactly the escalation that makes French student protests hard to wait out.
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Three killed and 21 injured in Kyiv, and 600,000 Ukrainians left without electricity. Zelensky called it disrespect toward American peace efforts — a phrase aimed at Washington rather than Moscow.
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Students have blockaded the Lycée Voltaire in Paris and high schools are closing across France over conditions. The blocus is an old and effective tactic — and it is colliding this autumn with the highest French borrowing costs in decades.