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  • A matador in a white costume holding a bright pink cape next to a bull in motion in a bullring

    Bullfighting
    Bullfighting firm in Seville to give free tickets to under-eights

    Company says move is best way to introduce tradition but critic claims it could psychologically damage young children
  • Composite of student protests

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    Israel-Gaza war
    Pro-Palestinian protests spread across European universities – video report

  • Workers install a giant Chinese national flag on a skyscraper in Belgrade.

    Xi Jinping
    Serbia prepares warm welcome for Xi in contrast to China-EU tensions

  • A file photo shows Ukraine's President Zelenskiy on a visit to the front line in eastern Ukraine.

    Ukraine war live
    Russia-Ukraine war: Belarus to hold tactical nuclear drills; Kyiv detains two Ukrainian officials over plot to kill Zelenskiy – as it happened

  • Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Rafah.

    China
    China angles for Gaza mediation role to expand influence in Middle East

  • Protesters called for a ceasefire in Gaza while occupying Berlin's university campus

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    Israel-Gaza war
    Police drag students from pro-Palestinian protest at Berlin university – video

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Opinion & analysis

  • Lucy Vincent

    Appetising, delicious food served up to prisoners? It works for the Nordic countries

    Lucy Vincent
  • View of Pikk Street in the Old City of Tallinn, Estonia

    Higher costs and cramped conditions: the impact of Europe’s housing crisis

  • Two soldiers walk past burnt-out blocks of flats with rubble strewn around them.

    Europe must find a way to help fund the fight against Putin – for its own sake

    Phillip Inman
  • Tornado damage in Omaha, Nebraska

    Weather tracker: severe storms and tornadoes hit parts of US

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  • A waterlogged field where spring greens are being harvested

    Farmer confidence at lowest in England and Wales since survey began, NFU says

  • Flower wholesaler Freddie Heathcote holding pots of flowers

    UK flower industry thrown into chaos by new Brexit border checks

    • Mayor of London Sadiq Khan visiting a foundation in Brixton last week.

      UK politics: Labour’s Khan has 22-point lead over Tory rival in London mayoral race, poll suggests – as it happened

    • A lorry drives on a roa past a sign reading 'Sevington Inland Border Facility'

      Food importers in UK say new Brexit checks could add 60% to costs

    • A man walks past a Penneys store

      Ireland reaps €700m Brexit bonanza from customs duties

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Pictures & video

  • More than 100 students have occupied Ghent University in the first European protest to fuse demands about Gaza and the climate crisis

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    Belgian students occupy Ghent University building in climate and Gaza protest – video

  • A woman poses with her snakes

    Snake catchers festival in Italy – in pictures

  • Irish police started dismantling about 200 tents housing asylum seekers in Dublin, tackling what has become a focal point for heated debate around migration

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    Police dismantle tent city in Dublin – video

  • The Guardian's Europe environment correspondent, Ajit Niranjan, travels to Görlitz, on the German border with Poland, to find out to what extent Germany’s green policies are fuelling the far right

    ‘The Greens are our enemy’: What is fuelling the far right in Germany?

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