Media captionItalian police arresting captain Carola Rackete at the port of Lampedusa Italy’s far-right deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini has accused the captain of a ship carrying rescued migrants of trying to sink a police boat. Carola Rackete was arrested at the Italian port of Lampedusa after a two-week stand-off with police at sea. Her […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Brazil is one of four countries in Mercosur The EU and South American economic bloc Mercosur have clinched a huge trade deal after 20 years of negotiations. EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said it was the EU’s biggest deal to date and, at a time of trade tensions between […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Brazil is one of four countries in Mercosur The EU and South American economic bloc Mercosur have clinched a huge trade deal after 20 years of negotiations. EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said it was the EU’s biggest deal to date and, at a time of trade tensions between […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Brazil is one of four countries in Mercosur The EU and South American economic bloc Mercosur have clinched a huge trade deal after 20 years of negotiations. EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said it was the EU’s biggest deal to date and, at a time of trade tensions between […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Brazil is one of four countries in Mercosur The EU and South American economic bloc Mercosur have clinched a huge trade deal after 20 years of negotiations. EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said it was the EU’s biggest deal to date and, at a time of trade tensions between […]
Image copyright AFP Image caption France’s weather service has issued a red alert for four southern areas France has hit its highest recorded temperature – 45.9C (114.6F) – amid a heatwave in Europe that has claimed several lives. The new record was measured in the southern town of Gallargues-le-Montueux. Before this year the previous record […]
Media captionIt took seconds for the remaining two towers of the Morandi bridge to be demolished Demolition experts have blown up the remains of the giant Morandi bridge in the Italian city of Genoa, nearly a year after the structure collapsed. Thousands of people were evacuated ahead of explosions which brought down two large towers […]
Image copyright AFP Image caption Firefighters assist a woman suffering from the heat in Tours, France Western Europe is bracing for record temperatures amid a heatwave which is thought to have claimed lives. France may hit its highest-ever recorded temperature on Friday in the heatwave that has swept across the continent this week. The current […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Vladimir Putin says liberal ideals conflict with the interests of most people Vladimir Putin has said liberalism is “obsolete” in an interview before he left for the G20 summit. The Russian president said the ideology that has underpinned Western democracies for decades had “outlived its purpose”. The Russian leader also […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Vladimir Putin says liberal ideals conflict with the interests of most people Vladimir Putin has said liberalism is “obsolete” in an interview before he left for the G20 summit. The Russian president said the ideology that has underpinned Western democracies for decades had “outlived its purpose”. The Russian premier also […]
