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Alfafar, Spain, November 2, 2024. REUTERS/Susana Vera By Susana Vera and Guillermo Martinez VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) -The deadliest flash floods in Spain’s modern history have killed at least 214 people and dozens were still unaccounted for, four days after torrential rains swept the eastern region of Valencia, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday. In […]
Move on. Nothing to see here. Just another ordinary, everyday apocalypse. If past experience is any guide, the world’s reaction to the floods in Spain last week will be similar to that of motorway drivers at a crash scene: slow down, take in the horror, outwardly express sympathy, inwardly give thanks that fate picked someone […]
Old-school glamour in Italy Marketing slogans usually leave me cold, but even I can’t argue with “Queen of the Dolomites”, the sobriquet given to Cortina d’Ampezzo. There’s a regal air about this venerable ski resort in the Veneto region’s north-west, epitomised by its classy Corso Italia, a pedestrianised thoroughfare and favourite passeggiata meeting place. But […]
The controversy over whether Notre Dame should charge visitors an entrance fee (Row erupts over plan to charge €5 to enter fire-hit Notre Dame, 26 October) brought to mind a trip to Italy earlier this year. Caravaggio’s painting The Burial of Saint Lucy has been recently relocated to the church for which it was originally […]
One of the first things American students Fiona Hastings and Olivia Nieporte did as they visited Rome for the first time was venture to the Trevi fountain to partake in the age-old ritual of tossing a coin over their shoulder and into the world-famous landmark. They had envisaged their coins falling into the basin of […]
A few weeks ago, I found myself having lunch next to the Belgian author David Van Reybrouck. We were in the writers’ room at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, where he had just taken part in a panel discussion on the end of empire, drawing on his Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted book Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth […]
Brujeria will tour with Carcass and Rotten Sound across Europe this coming January in memory of their two vocalists Juan Brujo and Pinche Peach. Peach passed away this July, while Brujo passed away a few months later in September. The tour is being billed as a “tribute to Juan Brujo and Pinche Peach” (or “homenaje […]
‘Ukrainians will never be the same’ This year was the second time Ukrainian Christians gathered at Valley View Camp. Built by the Madison Church of Christ in Tennessee, the camp operates as a nonprofit with close ties to the congregation. The Madison church, which supported Yasinskyi’s work in Ukraine, underwrote both Ukrainian gatherings and even […]
Despite comprehensive EU sanctions imposed on Russia in response to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian oil still floods into the European Union, much of it with obscured provenance. Indeed fossil fuel exports pumped an estimated €4.47 billion ($4.85 billion) per week into the Russian economy in mid-October, €350 million of which […]
Nissan is in the early stages of developing an electric city car for Europe, twinned with the upcoming Renault Twingo EV. The Japanese firm has begun talks with Alliance partner Renault’s Ampere EV division about the development of an ‘A-segment’ EV based on the Ampr Small platform that underpins the forthcoming Twingo (as well as the larger […]