Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Pope Leo XIV will leave hospital on Saturday, four days after undergoing lung cancer surgery, and will give the traditional noon blessing on Sunday from a window overlooking St. Peter’s […]
Continue ReadingWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in A pack of cigarettes in Germany will cost more than €11 by the end of the decade after lawmakers approved a sharp increase in tobacco taxes on Thursday. The measure […]
Continue ReadingWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in A woman living in Russia’s Far East was fined this week after an artificial intelligence-generated photo of a bear, made as a prank, went viral and launched an actual search, […]
Continue ReadingWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in A ceremony at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens has marked the handover of 22 ancient artefacts, returned by Israel after their illegal removal from Greece. Culture Minister Lina Mendoni […]
Continue ReadingWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Andy Burnham will welcome Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to Downing Street on Wednesday in a demonstration of support following US president Donald Trump’s diesel arrangement with Russia. The Prime Minister […]
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Continue ReadingWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in The UK-EU summit has been scheduled for next month after being postponed in the wake of Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation as prime minister. The European Council confirmed the Brussels meeting […]
Continue ReadingWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in A massive fire has destroyed Marché des Enfants Rouges in Paris, the capital’s oldest covered food market. Emergency services were called to the scene in the city’s 3rd arrondissement at […]
Continue ReadingWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said it still does not know what caused the pneumonia that killed a Russian lab worker at an anti-plague research centre in Siberia this […]
Continue ReadingWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in A Tuscan winery has been targeted in what it described as Italy’s largest wine theft on record, after criminals stole about 30,000 bottles valued at an estimated 5 million euros […]
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