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 Two online streamers in France have been given suspended jail terms after the death of a man they had subjected to violence and humiliation for several days on his […]
Continue ReadingA passenger train smashed into a farm trailer in Poland on Monday (August 3), after a tractor driver stopped on a level crossing. CCTV released by Polish State Railways (PKP) captured the moment the tractor hauling trailers loaded with straw bales drove over the railway as barriers closed and warning lights flashed. The driver, who […]
Continue ReadingOn 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 magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck the Campi Flegrei area near Naples, southern Italy, leaving dozens injured, causing power outages, disrupting train and metro services, and damaging some buildings. At […]
Continue ReadingOn 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 Hamburg‘s Pride parade, one of Germany‘s biggest, got underway Saturday with increased security a week after a fatal extremist attack near its counterpart in Berlin. Dozens of trucks were […]
Continue ReadingOn 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 court in Moscow has seized 123 real estate properties belonging to Jehovah’s Witnesses and handed them over to the Russian state, the capital’s judicial court service announced on […]
Continue ReadingHundreds of migrants cross into Ceuta enclave 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 More than 49,000 migrants poured into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco in 24 hours on Thursday, the government has said […]
Continue ReadingOn 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 Keepers at Prague Zoo deployed tons of ice on Thursday, offering much-needed relief to its animal residents as Europe grappled with yet another scorching heatwave. Polar bears Aleut and […]
Continue ReadingOn 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 journalist who wrote for The Independent for a spell was killed in a road accident and her 10-year-old daughter died of her injuries four days later. Nell Raven […]
Continue ReadingBeachgoers in France watched on as smoke from raging wildfires turned skies an apocalyptic orange. Emmanuel Macron has described the wildfire crisis as the most severe the country has faced since World War 2. On Tuesday (28 July) The Independent reporter James C. Reynolds spoke to local volunteers in Lacanau, just over 50km away from […]
Continue ReadingAs raging wildfires continue to consume parts of France, local communities have mobilised to minimise the destruction. Around 4,000 people have been ordered to evacuate campsites in the Lacanau Ocean area ahead of an impending heatwave. More than 360,000 people have been evacuated across France and Spain in total. In Lacanau, just over 50km away […]
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