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Belgian port blockaded as farmer protests spread across Europe

Roads around Zeebrugge could be obstructed until midnight on Wednesday, hitting commercial trade

Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels

30, Jan, 2024 @7:03 PM

Spanish parliament rejects amnesty bill for Catalan separatists

Narrow defeat by 179 votes to 171 is a blow for Pedro Sánchez and highlights fragility of his minority government

Sam Jones in Madrid

30, Jan, 2024 @6:54 PM

‘An attack on us all’: how threat from Germany’s far right is being felt

Der Spiegel writer says AfD’s mass deportation rhetoric is ‘a kind of verbal violence’

Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

30, Jan, 2024 @6:33 PM

Ukraine’s top general refuses request from Zelenskiy to step down

Personality clashes blamed for conflict between president and popular commander Valerii Zaluzhnyi

Dan Sabbagh, Artem Mazhulin and Luke Harding

30, Jan, 2024 @6:14 PM

Netanyahu rules out ceasefire deal that would mean Gaza withdrawal

Israeli PM also says he will not accept any truce that would require release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

30, Jan, 2024 @6:13 PM

The warnings from Greenham Common’s women are as pertinent as ever | Letter

Letter: Mikhail Gorbachev paid tribute to the role we played in bringing him and Ronald Reagan together, writes Dr Rebecca E Johnson, but we are still on the brink of nuclear war

30, Jan, 2024 @5:50 PM

Doctors should not report women to police for suspected illegal abortions | Letter

Letter: There are strict rules about confidentiality and it is reassuring that the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has reminded medics of this essential duty to their patients, writes Wendy Savage

30, Jan, 2024 @5:50 PM

Jan Mokrzycki obituary

Other lives: Dentist and president of the Federation of Poles in Great Britain who campaigned for the rights of the UK Polish community to receive wartime compensation from Germany

Wiktor Moszczynski

30, Jan, 2024 @5:49 PM

Russia-Ukraine war: Russia showing no willingness to return PoW bodies from plane crash, Kyiv says; Zelenskiy wants ‘air shield’ – as it happened

Kyiv says Moscow has provided no evidence to support claim Ukrainian soldiers were on board crashed plane

Sammy Gecsoyler, Tom Bryant and Warren Murray

30, Jan, 2024 @4:02 PM

French prime minister says country’s farmers should be granted ‘exception’ as protests and road blocks continue – as it happened

Gabriel Attal says agriculture is France’s ‘strength and pride’ after Emmanuel Macron calls for measures for Ukraine imports

Lili Bayer in Brussels

30, Jan, 2024 @3:41 PM

‘Everyone is affected’: Pressure grows on French government to strike deal with farmers

Paris feels impact of continued blockade of capital over low food prices, red-tape and threats to rural life

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

30, Jan, 2024 @3:26 PM

Roman plate smuggling trial is latest twist in Corsica’s sunken treasure saga

Félix Biancamaria is accused of trying to sell a national treasure from hoard discovered almost 40 years ago

Kim Willsher in Paris

30, Jan, 2024 @1:19 PM

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