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Niqab ban: Belgium was entitled to impose restrictions to ensure the principles of “living together”, according to the European Court of Human Rights. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Veil ban does not breach human rights law, European court rules
  • July 11, 2017, 21:21

Human rights judges say Belgian niqab ban ‘protects others’ freedoms’

Roses are placed to mark the 20th anniversary of the kidnapping and murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco in Ermua, the Basque Country town where he was a Popular Party councillor. Photograph: Luis Tejido/EPA Anniversary of notorious Eta killing reopens old wounds in Spain
  • Guy Hedgecoe
  • July 11, 2017, 16:36

Death of Miguel Ángel Blanco 20 years ago remembered with acrimony

Bosnian Muslim women offers prayers near the coffins of 71 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, at the memorial cemetery in the village of Potocari, near Srebrenica, on Tuesday. Photograph: Elvis Barukcic/AFP/Getty Images Srebrenica survivors still struggling against Serb genocide denial
  • Daniel McLaughlin
  • July 11, 2017, 11:19

Bosnian Serb mayor of 1995 massacre town not invited to commemoration events

Souda camp: the rocky beach in front of the camp on the Greek island of Chios is a sea of tents, full of new arrivals for whom it has no room. Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters Thousands of children stranded in ‘inexcusable’ Greek camps
  • Jennifer Hough
  • July 11, 2017, 01:00

Red tape prevents refugees from leaving as registration camps become de facto detention centres

Rudolf Nureyev: the dancer working with Erik Bruhn, with whom he had a long affair, in 1965. Photograph: Jack Mitchell/Getty Bolshoi pulls ‘Nureyev’ premiere amid concerns of Kremlin interference
  • Isabel Gorst
  • July 10, 2017, 19:56

Insiders fear censor objected to ballet’s portrayal of hero’s homosexuality

A cyclist  uses a smartphone in Shanghai on July 3rd. A Dutch telecom company has developed a new app that shuts down your mobile phone signal once you unlock and mount your bike. File photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Text and ride? App jams smartphone signal when on your bike
  • Peter Cluskey
  • July 10, 2017, 19:17

Smart indeed: Dutch firm’s aim is to halt teenage practice of texting while cycling

Juris Ulmanis, a Riga-based entrepreneur who is a member of Latvia’s volunteer national guard and a Baltic “elf”. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin Baltic Elves confront Russian trolls in growing East-West information war
  • Daniel McLaughlin
  • July 10, 2017, 01:00

Volunteers in Baltic states debunk pro-Kremlin fake news and anti-western propaganda

German chancellor Angela Merkel thanks members of German law enforcement and emergency services at the conclusion of the G20 summit in Hamburg. Photograph: Sean Gallup/EPA EU partners edge towards position on Trump at G20 summit
  • Derek Scally
  • July 9, 2017, 20:05

US president isolated as G20 reiterates support for multilateral globalised trade

Supporters of Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party,  attend a rally in the Maltepe district of Istanbul. Photograph: Yasin Akgul/AFP/Getty Images Turkish opposition stages huge protest rally in Istanbul
  • July 9, 2017, 20:04

Hundreds of thousands mark the end of a 25-day march against Erdogan crackdown

Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko and US secretary of state Rex Tillerson greet each other in  Kiev on July 9th, 2017.  Photograph: Sergei SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images Onus on Russia to end Ukraine war, says US secretary of state
  • Daniel McLaughlin
  • July 9, 2017, 19:52

Rex Tillerson in talks in Kiev as Donald Trump calls for co-operation with Moscow

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Ankara says Berlin needs to improve its attitude towards Turkey. Photograph:  Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Germany begins withdrawing troops from Turkish air base
  • July 9, 2017, 18:47

Refusal to permit German lawmakers to visit Incirlik speeds removal of military resources

A man works outside a shop that was looted during demonstrations at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Photograph: REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch Violent protests in Hamburg quelled as G20 summit reaches final day
  • Derek Scally
  • July 8, 2017, 11:18

Protesters torched cars and smashed windows before police restored order

Rescuers work amid the rubble of a building that collapsed in Torre Annunziata, near Naples, southern Italy. Photograph: Ciro Fusco/ANSA via AP Eight bodies recovered after building collapses in Italy
  • July 8, 2017, 10:22

Investigation into why five-story residential block near Naples collapsed

A sculpted relief shows Martin Luther on a wall in the Stadtkirche Sankt Marien church in Wittenberg, where he preached. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Martin Luther: ‘The greatest media sensation of his age’
  • Derek Scally
  • July 8, 2017, 06:00

Wittenberg is spending €50m to mark the theologian’s protest 500 years ago

“If there had been referendums in France or Italy last year, when the wave of anti-establishment anger was at its height, there is every possibility that the EU could now be facing an existential crisis of much greater import than Brexit itself.” Illustration: Getty Images Fintan O’Toole: EU is still at risk of slow self-destruction
  • Fintan O'Toole
  • July 8, 2017, 06:00

If response to Brexit is just ‘good riddance’, the EU may sleepwalk into its own demise. Our ‘Europe’s Future’ series concludes

New beginning: A man walks through debris from the demolition of the Reina nightclub in May 2017, by the Bosphorus bridge in Istanbul. The venue was targeted by a New Year’s Eve jihadist  attack that left 39 dead. Photograph: Yasin Akgul/AFP/Getty Is it safe to go back to Turkey?
  • Stephen Starr
  • July 8, 2017, 06:00

Terror attacks and last year’s failed coup may be fading from holidaymaker memory

French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor angela merkel and us president Donald Trump confer at the start of the first working session of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, yesterday. Photograph: John Macdougall/Pool/The New York Times Angela Merkel steers choppy waters in her Hamburg home town
  • Derek Scally
  • July 8, 2017, 01:00

German chancellor seeks to anchor a deal to hold the post-cold world order together

The Lviv garbage crisis might be over but it could yet taint the political future of the city’s mayor, Andriy Sadovyi.  Photograph: Pavlo Palamarchuk/Reuters Ukraine’s dirty politics and a garbage crisis swamp lovely Lviv
  • Daniel McLaughlin
  • July 8, 2017, 01:00

The city’s outspoken mayor faces a politically toxic scandal over its rubbish emergency

Donald Trump during a meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, on Friday. At right is US secretary of state Rex Tillerson. Photograph: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times ‘Robust’ first Putin-Trump meeting over interference claims
  • Derek Scally
  • July 7, 2017, 20:29

Tillerson says US president pressed Russian leader over election interference claim

Deputies of the Catalan Parliament pose with ballot boxes after the presentation of the details of the referendum of self-determination of Catalonia to be held on  October 1st.  Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images Spanish unionists struggle to offer united front on Catalonia
  • Guy Hedgecoe
  • July 7, 2017, 19:16

Internal tensions also hamper separatists before proposed independence vote

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