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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 Police have found bones and a decomposing ​body believed to be the remains of five children at the home of a couple in southern French. Authorities said the discovery […]

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 police detained a man ⁠who had attacked people with a knife ⁠in ​Paris ⁠on Monday, Interior Minister ⁠Laurent Nunez ​told ⁠reporters. The man ‌had attacked three women ‌with […]

Police rushed to evacuate a family from their home in France as wildfires continue to surge. In footage shared by police on Saturday, the officer can be heard shouting: “Evacuate the area. Take your children, your animals, and leave the area. Sir, you need to leave right now, the fire is coming. Don’t take your […]

This is the moment Berlin Pride was evacuated after a vehicle drove into the crowd, killing one person and injuring at least 17 others on Saturday evening (25 July). An eyewitness filmed the evacuation after attendees were ordered to leave the area, with a number of emergency services vehicles already at the scene. Hundreds of […]

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 autopsy found no signs of violence in the death of modelling scout Daniel Siad, who had ties to the late convicted U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Siad, 69, […]

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 Schools in a town in Estonia have been forced to take measures to protect children against exploding drones. The buildings in Tartu, in Eastern Estonia, ​have already experienced a […]

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 Swiss chocolate giant Lindt is facing a lawsuit in a US court over allegations of using child labour in its cocoa supply chain in Ghana and Ivory Coast, despite […]

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 Romania shot down a foreign drone in its airspace on Friday in the first interception of its kind, amid growing concern over stray weapons straying into Nato territory. An […]

Arsonists tied flammable rags to cats’ tails and set them alight to ignite wildfires in Italy. Deadly wildfires have continued to sweep across Europe, with extreme weather warnings and record temperatures devastating the continent. However, not all of the blazes are believed to have been natural, with authorities investigating the “inhumane” method used at Pollino […]