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Catalan separatist flags are held up as fireworks go off in Sant Jaume Square in front of the Catalan regional government headquarters during celebratrions after the Catalan regional parliament declared independence from Spain in Barcelona. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters

Spain dissolves Catalan cabinet in wake of independence declaration

October 27, 2017, 21:44

Spanish government moves to impose direct rule following region’s show of defiance

Valentino Talluto during his trial in the courtroom of the Rebibbia prison, Rome, October 25th, 2017. Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images

Italian jailed for 24 years for infecting dozens of women with HIV

October 27, 2017, 21:19

Valentino Talluto (33) seduced dozens via social networks before his arrest in 2015

Supporters of Catalan separatism celebrate following the vote to declare independence from Spain by the Catalan parliament in Barcelon. Photograph: Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg

Catalan day of nerves spurs optimism and worry in equal measure

Michael Stothard
October 27, 2017, 20:41

Amid euphoria, some separatists fear independence declaration could exact high cost

Crimean Tatar activists Ahtem Chiygoz (left) and Ilmi Umerov (right), who have been released from prison in Russia, with Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko in Kiev, Ukraine, today. Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

Crimean Tatars return to Kiev after release from jail in Russia

Daniel McLaughlin
October 27, 2017, 16:23

Restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity ‘is minimum task... Our struggle revolves around this’

Protesters chant at a group of Spanish National Police during a Catalan pro-independence strike of university students on October 26th, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Images

Spain set to implement direct rule in Catalonia

Guy Hedgecoe
October 27, 2017, 01:00

Catalan independence movement regards unprecedented move as highly provocative

Catalan president Carles Puigdemont during a parliamentary session at the Catalan parliament in Barcelona on Thursday evening. Photograph: Manu Fernandez/AP

Catalonia set to lose devolved powers after chaotic day in crisis

Guy Hedgecoe
October 26, 2017, 20:34

Regional parliament debates firm response to introduction of direct rule by Spain

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi meets with French president Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/EPA

Rights groups criticise Macron for welcoming Egyptian president

Lara Marlowe
October 26, 2017, 19:00

French president says he will not lecture Sisi on human rights

$A penal colony at Abakan, Russia. Although Russia has taken steps to humanise its prisons over the last 25 years, convicts are still transported using draconian Soviet-era practices. Photograph: Alexander Kolbasov\TASS via Getty Images$ Russian prisoners transported in inhumane conditions, says report

Isabel Gorst
October 26, 2017, 14:32

Cruel and degrading conditions endured by convicts outlined in Amnesty report

Police examine a crime scene after an explosion in which Ukrainian lawmaker Igor Mosiychuk was wounded and his bodyguard killed in Kiev on Wednesday night. Photograph: Stepan Franko/EPA

Russia denies role in deadly bomb blast targeting Ukrainian deputy

Daniel McLaughlin
October 26, 2017, 13:51

Two killed and nationalist politician hurt in latest attack on prominent people in Kiev

The wreckage of a military near railway tracks after the crash. Photograph: Markku Ulander/Lehtikuva via AP

Four people killed after train crash in southern Finland

October 26, 2017, 10:31

Finnish train crash victims believed to be soldiers

French La Republique en Marche (EM) ruling party deputies stand and applaud French prime minister Edouard Philippe’s answer on Europe’s posted workers directive at the National Assembly. Photograph: Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty

Poland opposes changes to bolster wages of migrant workers

Patrick Smyth
October 26, 2017, 01:00

Europe Letter: Macron an unlikely champion of working man in backing directive reform

Migrants from Ethiopia on the streets of Calais, as one year on from the demolition of the camp dubbed ‘The Jungle’ migrants continue to stay in the town and attempt to cross the border to the UK. Photorgaph: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

‘The police keep taking our sleeping bags’: life as a migrant in Calais

Lorna Siggins
October 26, 2017, 00:00

One year after demolition of ‘the Jungle’, many are now living in bushes and scrub around the French port

Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic and Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu at an air show in Belgrade: Serbia is Russia’s key ally in a region where all the countries now either are or want to be EU members. Photograph: Djordje Kojadinovic/Reuters

Russia angry as US official tells Serbia to choose EU or Moscow

Daniel McLaughlin
October 25, 2017, 18:32

Belgrade under pressure over East-West balancing act

Sebastian Kurz, the 31-year-old leader of the Austrian People’s Party, is likely to be the next chancellor. Photograph: EPA/Christian Bruna

Austrian conservatives start coalition talks with far-right populists

Derek Scally
October 25, 2017, 18:22

Sebastian Kurz hoping for a swift agreement on a programme for government

Austrian Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache speaks during a press conference on coalition talks, at his party’s headquarters in Vienna. Photograph: Christian Bruna/EPA

Austria’s Sebastian Kurz to hold coalition talks with far-right

October 24, 2017, 20:03

Austrian leader invites the Freedom Party to government formation negotiations

Outgoing finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble goes to take his place after he was elected president of the Bundestag on Tuesday. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Schäuble warns against ugly debates in new Bundestag

Derek Scally
October 24, 2017, 17:27

Crowded and lively German parliament sits for first time since election in September

A man shakes hands with former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili as he sits in a tent during a protest against Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko in Kiev on Sunday. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images

Ukraine prosecutor accuses ex-Georgian leader of plotting coup

Daniel McLaughlin
October 24, 2017, 17:03

Mikheil Saakashvili threatened with extradition to his homeland

File image taken on November 9th, 1985, shows Belgian police officers and investigators arriving at the Delhaize supermarket in Aalst, Flanders, following an attack by the ‘Crazy Brabant Killers’. Photograph: Stringer/AFP/Getty Images

‘Brabant Killers’ case sees breakthrough after deathbed confession

October 24, 2017, 14:49

Belgian officials may finally be close to identifying the group who killed 28 people

European Council president Donald Tusk during a debate on the outcome of last week’s European summit at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters

Tusk kicks Brexit ball back into Theresa May’s court

Patrick Smyth
October 24, 2017, 10:42

European Council president says UK must decide between good deal, bad deal and ‘no Brexit’

Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist who was killed in a car bomb near her home in Malta on October 16th. Photograph: The Malta Independent via AP

Death of Maltese journalist ‘could be linked to fuel-smuggling network’

October 24, 2017, 10:26

Sicily chief prosecutor says he ‘could not exclude’ possibility that alleged crime syndicate may be behind murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia

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