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On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch A former Spanish transport minister was sentenced to 24 years in prison on corruption charges on Monday, in the first verdict from a series of scandals blighting Pedro Sanchez’s […]

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch French drug police made a stunning discovery during a routine narcotics raid in Paris, stumbling upon a stolen Picasso painting worth up to €15 million (£13m). Officers in the […]

The Way Back. Join our community exploring how Britain can rebuild its future in Europe Join the debate with our pro-Europe newsletter Join the debate with our pro-Europe newsletter France gritted its teeth Monday for a week of record-busting temperatures, sweltering under a grueling heat wave that combines daytime highs above 40 degrees Celsius (104 […]

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch France’s state-owned railway operator, SNCF, has urged vulnerable people to avoid train travel as a severe heatwave is set to peak across the country this week. Jean Castex, head […]

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch France is putting emergency services and military forces on wildfire alert, restricting public alcohol consumption and canceling some outdoor sports events to cope with a heat wave unfurling across […]

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Claude Guillemot, a co-founder of the global gaming giant Ubisoft, has died in a plane crash in western France, authorities confirmed on Saturday. Mr Guillemot was aboard a twin-motor […]

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck Greece on Saturday. However, there were no immediate reports of damage. The tremor occurred at a depth of 13km (eight miles), the European-Mediterranean […]

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch A person has died after two cargo trains collided on a bridge in Munich in the early hours of Saturday. Local police said that two of the carriages derailed […]