Barcelona plans to raise tourist tax for cruise passengers visiting for few hours
Move targeting those in city for less than 12 hours is latest measure from mayor to tackle effects of mass tourism Barcelona’s mayor plans to...
Month : July 2024
‘It’s a very strange feeling’: can the man who won Olympic gold bring glory to the Paris Games?
2024 Games organiser Tony Estanguet tells how chats with British sporting legend Sebastian Coe have kept him on an even keel It has to feel...
South mourns and north rejoices as Cyprus marks 50 years of ethnic division
Greek Cypriots in south wake to air raid sirens reminiscent of invasion while Turkish-occupied north celebrates Cyprus has marked the landmark anniversary of 50 years...
Five protesters and one police officer hurt in French reservoir demonstration
Violence erupts after about 4,000 gather in La Rochelle amid heightened tensions over water resources A police officer and five protesters were injured when violence...
Life returns to Ukrainian reservoir drained by Russian strike on dam
A year later, animals, birds and saplings are populating a new landscape of ponds and lagoons Standing in a scene of shimmering green, Vadym Maniuk...
Former factory in Dublin intended to house asylum seekers is set on fire
Ex-Crown Paints building in Coolock had been the scene of a large protest A disused factory in Dublin earmarked to house asylum seekers has been...
German national sentenced to death in Belarus, Berlin confirms
Secretive trial of Rico Krieger, 30, may be linked to Belarusian volunteer unit fighting alongside Ukraine against Russia A German national has been sentenced to...
Former Rolls-Royce designer’s alleged killer arrested in France
Police say Serbian man detained near Paris after 74-year-old Ian Cameron was stabbed to death at home in Germany The alleged killer of a British...
European heatwave forecast to hit peak as health warnings issued
Tourists and residents swelter in heat as temperatures rise to 44C in Spain, with forest fires in Greece and Croatia A fierce heatwave is continuing...
Macron ally wins surprise re-election as national assembly speaker
Vote for centrist MP Yaël Braun-Pivet marks first step out of governing limbo since snap elections left country divided French lawmakers have re-elected a member...
