France to fine patients €5 for missing GP appointments
Proposed penalty, intended to boost creaking health service, is criticised by doctors’ unions and patients’ groups Patients in France who fail to turn up to...
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Albanians willing to be repatriated detained for weeks in UK, watchdog finds
HM chief inspector of prisons says detainees held unnecessarily despite volunteering for fast-track deportation Albanians volunteering to be repatriated under a fast-track deportation deal are...
The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change
Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals Shortly after Charles Darwin published his magnum opus, The Origin...
UN nuclear watchdog head condemns drone strike on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
Rafael Grossi says three direct hits against the main reactor containment structures ‘significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident’ See all our Ukraine...
Russia-Ukraine war: Nuclear watchdog urges restraint after Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant attack – as it happened
International Atomic Energy Agency warns about safety after Russia says Ukrainian drone detonated at nuclear power plant See all our Ukraine war coverage The International...
Russia declares federal emergency over floods after dam bursts
More than 4,000 people have been evacuated in the Orenburg region after the Ural River overflowed Russia’s government has declared flooding in the Orenburg region...
Brexit has made the UK a lower-status nation, says David Miliband
Former foreign secretary says Britain needs to forge closer political and foreign policy links with Europe if it is to thrive The UK has lost...
Ukraine-sceptic government ally Peter Pellegrini wins Slovakian presidential election
Close ally of populist prime minister Robert Fico claimed 53.85% of vote, beating pro-Western opposition Ivan Korčok Nationalist-left government candidate Peter Pellegrini has won Slovakia’s...
New challenger to Viktor Orbán leads huge demonstration in Budapest
Péter Magyar, once an insider in the ruling Fidesz party, declares that ‘Change has started in Hungary which can’t be stopped’ Tens of thousands of...
Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukraine’s top general says Russian forces carrying out offensive operations day and night
Oleksandr Syrskyi says all enemy attempts to break through to the settlement have failed See all our Ukraine war coverage Russia on Saturday condemned as...
