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On one of the darkest days in English rugby history, France put on a clinic by running in seven tries in a record 53-10 humiliation of its cross-channel rival at Twickenham in the Six Nations on Saturday.

Three boats overcrowded with migrants were brought safely to Italian ports on Saturday, the coastguard said, as thousands of marchers remembered the victims of last month’s deadly shipwreck off Calabria’s coast.

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Moscow on Friday accused foreign countries of fomenting days of mass protests in Georgia, likening them to an attempted coup designed to sow tension on Russia’s borders.

Whether they’re islands, mountains or territories far from the mainland, such areas are considered by the EU to be regions with a strong natural geographical handicap. The EU’s cohesion policy, with its powerful budget, gives these regions substantial resources to help them try to catch up with metropolitan areas. The Europe Now team travels to the French overseas department of Guadeloupe to take a closer look.

“Our seas are of strategic importance,” Commissioner Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius said.

The Dutch decision will directly affect ASML, Europe’s largest technology company in terms of market capitalisation.

The new rules will make it easier for member states to inject subsidies into key green tech products such as solar panels, heat pumps and wind turbines.

Live Video from the shooting in Hamburg Germany. The shooting occurred at a Jehovah’s Witnesses hall in Hamburg

Deadly shooting at Hamburg Jehovah’s Witness hall A number of people have been killed in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall in the…

Shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, and an unspecified number of people were killed or wounded, police said.

Greek prosecutors on Thursday charged three more railway officials in connection with the country’s worst train crash, as the prime minister vowed “absolute transparency” in the probe into the tragedy.

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Businesses can buy so-called carbon credits to balance out their own emissions.

Thousands of people staged a second straight day of protests in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Wednesday, rallying outside parliament against a “foreign agents” law which critics say signals an authoritarian shift.

Who did sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines? Without much proof to go on, pundits could only root for the version that would suit their cause. But German investigators have now revealed they have found traces of explosives aboard a yacht that may have carried the charge that last September knocked out the undersea conduit that supplies Russian gas to Europe via the Baltic Sea.

Under the proposed reforms, a simple majority of Israeli lawmakers will be able to override rulings issued by the country’s Supreme Court.

Tens of thousands of people marched in Greece on Wednesday to protest over the country’s deadliest train disaster on record, as workers staged a nationwide, day-long walkout.

Under current fiscal rules, member states are bound to keep their deficit levels under 3%, a figure that many currently exceed.

The two messages were written in Russian saying an ‘explosion’ would happen on the city’s metro on Wednesday 8 March.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Wednesday that the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut may fall into Russian hands in the coming days after months of intense fighting. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).

Police in the ex-Soviet state of Georgia used tear gas and stun grenades early on Wednesday to break up a protest outside Parliament against a draft law on “foreign agents”.

A Spanish court ordered a man to pay his ex-wife 200,000 euros for 25 years of unpaid domestic labour, based on the minimum wage throughout their marriage, court documents showed Tuesday.

The EU Railway Agency raised concerns with the relevant people on multiple occasions.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is on his way to Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky, a UN spokesman said Tuesday. Zelensky said earlier in the day that the Ukrainian military would be sending reinforcements to the besieged city of Bakhmut, belying earlier reports that Ukrainian forces might be preparing a retreat. Follow our live blog for the latest updates on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).