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At least 38 dead in ‘catastrophic’ flooding in western Germany

 

More missing as buildings give way amid heavy rain and flooding

 

 

Philip Oltermann in Berlin
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Stunningly preserved fresco of Narcissus discovered in Pompeii   Mythological hunter is depicted enraptured by his own reflection     Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo Thu 14 Feb

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Citizenship for sale: fugitives, politicians and disgraced businesspeople buying Vanuatu passports

 

 

Revealed: more than 2,000 people, including individuals sought by police, have purchased passports, and with them visa-free access to the EU and UK

 

 

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Four arrested over online racist abuse of England footballers

 

Police warn other alleged offenders will be tracked down for targeting black players after Euro 2020 final

 

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‘We’re not animals, we’re human beings’: US farm workers labor in deadly heat with few protections

 

Advocates want Osha to issue federal heat standards, requiring water, shade and rest breaks

 

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Aftermath of Germany and Belgium floods – in pictures

 

 

At least 110 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium. Search and rescue operations are continuing with hundreds still unaccounted for

 

 

Fri 16 Jul 2021 13.13 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2021/jul/16/aftermath-germany-belgium-floods-in-pictures

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Vatican reveals it owns more than 5,000 properties

 

Real estate holdings published for first time show it owns 4,051 properties in Italy, 1,120 abroad

 

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‘It’s getting out of hand’: genocide denial outlawed in Bosnia

 

Move by international body set up to implement post-war peace deal follows attempts to downplay 1995 Srebrenica massacre

 

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US monitoring over 200 people for potential monkeypox exposure

 

Individual who contracted the disease caused by a virus similar to smallpox returned to Texas from Nigeria in July

 

Mon 26 Jul 2021 16.20 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Amanda Knox says Matt Damon film Stillwater ‘rips off’ and distorts her story

 

Writer-director Tom McCarthy’s movie ‘inspired’ by 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher reinforces conspiracy theories about the case, says Knox

 

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‘Look at how they treat us’: black Britons despair of police reform

 

As a new parliamentary report decries persistent racial injustice in UK policing, black Britons across London describe its impact on them

 

 
Fri 30 Jul 2021 16.43 BSTLast modified on Fri 30 Jul 20
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Marcell Jacobs has inspiring story to share in sprinting’s post-Bolt era

 

New men’s 100m Olympic champion credits reconnection with his estranged father for giving him ‘the energy to be here today’

 

Andy Bull at Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Sun 1 Aug 2021 18.06 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

An exuberant high jumper who wore socks with his face agreed to share an Olympic gold medal with his opponent

 

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Belarus exile group leader Vitaly Shishov found dead in Kyiv, police say

 

Police open murder investigation after activist discovered in park after failing to return from a run

 

Andrew Roth in Moscow and Jon Henley
Tue 3 Aug 2021 13.36 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dictator Lukashenko at work.......
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The lost history of the electric car – and what it tells us about the future of transport

 

To every age dogged with pollution, accidents and congestion, the transport solution for the next generation seems obvious – but the same problems keep coming back

 

Tue 3 Aug 2021 06.00 BST

by Tom Standage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/03/lost-history-electric-car-future-transport

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Italy strikes gold again as nation beats its overall medal count from last two Olympic games

 

Italy's Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti have won gold in the Nacra 17 mixed class sailing at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo on Tuesday

 

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https://www.wantedinmilan.com/news/italy-wins-olympic-gold-medal-for-sailing.html

 

Ruggero Tita is from Trento

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Belarus athlete who refused to fly home is granted Polish visa

 

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya filmed arriving at Polish embassy in Tokyo as husband flees to Ukraine

 

Andrew Roth in Moscow
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Lions kill three children near Tanzania wildlife reserve

 

Youngsters went to look for cattle near Ngorongoro conservation area on Monday

 

Agence France-Presse in Dar es Salaam
Thu 5 Aug 2021 16.11 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Venomous cobra missing in Texas after escaping from owner’s house

 

  • West African banded cobra has not been yet found
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Apple wants to check your phone for child abuse images – what could possibly go wrong?

 

On the surface Apple’s new features sound both sensible and commendable – but they also open a Pandora’s box of privacy and surveillance issues

 

Sat 7 Aug 2021 14.00 BST

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Tiger kills woman working in safari park in Chile

 

Police say the woman did not realise the door of the animal’s cage was open and was immediately attacked

 

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Italy: ‘If you talk, you live well’: the remote Sardinian village with eight centenarians

 

Books, clean air and socialising thought to have helped the latest five mark their 100th birthdays in Perdasdefogu this year

 

Angela Giuffrida in Perdasdefogu, Sardinia
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Wildfires rage in Greece and Italy as EU mounts firefighting operation

 

Week of blazes forces evacuations and brings devastating scale of destruction to large areas of southern Europe

 

 
Helena Smith in Athens, Jennifer Rankin in Brussels, Angela Giuffrida in Rome and Jon Henley in Paris
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‘Please pray for me’: female reporter being hunted by the Taliban tells her story

 

A young female journalist describes the panic and fe

ar of being forced into hiding as cities across Afghanistan fall

 

Tue 10 Aug 2021 14.22 BSTLast modified on Tue 10 Aug 2

by Anonymous, as told to Himkat Noori

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/aug/10/please-pray-for-me-female-reporter-being-hunted-by-the-taliban-tells-her-story

 

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