Category: 3. Europe

At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, families waited anxiously as the first arrivals came through Rafah, reuniting with relatives who had travelled months earlier for medical treatment. Egyptian officials said around 150 people were…

Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Iranian co-writer of Jafar Panahi’s Oscar-nominated film It Was Just An Accident has been arrested in Iran for signing an open letter criticising the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the government for the handling of the protests that have shaken…

However, the leader of Norway’s Green Party, Arild Hermstad, who is a republican says the email exchanges point to a monarchy that is not working: “It really puts not only the royal family in a big squeeze, but also for Norway itself, how do you actually solve this? At least she has to be very…

Lord Mandelson is still the main topic for discussion on the podcast – as Anne reports back from an event with the US ambassador to London, Warren Stephens.

Sam and Anne both pick over Peter Mandelson’s interview with The Times, where he is pictured standing next to an aga…

A hospital in Spain has achieved a significant medical breakthrough by performing the world’s first face transplant using tissues from a donor who had received medical assistance in dying—a procedure legal in Spain since 2021.

The operation was performed at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital…

Good morning from Brussels. I’m Mared Gwyn.

Mario Draghi provided a taster on Monday of the message he’s set to deliver to EU leaders during an informal summit next week: make the EU a “genuine federation” to avoid becoming “subordinated, divided and deindustrialised.”

The former…