Spanish officials are working to recruit squad from abroad because island’s police are too well known to localsWanted: foreigners between 30 and 40 years old willing to party in Ibiza in the name of combating the coronavirus pandemic.Spanish officials …
Belarus athlete who refused to fly home is granted Polish visa
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya filmed arriving at Polish embassy in Tokyo, as husband flees to UkraineThe Belarus Olympic athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has received a humanitarian visa from Poland upon seeking asylum after she was threatened with being bund…
War crimes trial could cast harsh light on Iran’s new president
Case before Swedish court may reveal further details about Ebrahim Raisi’s role in mass executions in 1988The war crimes trial in Sweden of a former Iranian official could reveal further damaging details about the role played in the mass execution of p…
Element Ventures pulls in $130M to double-down on the FinTech enterprise trend
With the rise of Open Banking, Psd2 Regulation, InsurTech, and the whole, general Fintech boom, tech investors have realized that there is an increasing place for dedicated funds which double down on this ongoing movement. When you look at the rise of banking-as-a-service offerings, payments platforms, insurtech, asset management, and infrastructure providers, you realize that […]
Composer-pianist Max Richter: ‘Creativity is activism’
The German-British composer explains why his new album, Exiles, addresses the refugee crisis – and is played by an orchestra who break all the rules When Max Richter sat down to compose a new ballet score in 2015 he knew what he wanted to say. In April…
Delta blues: why estuaries are the canaries in the climate crisis coalmine
These fragile ecosystems are where the impacts of the climate crisis are often felt first, say expertsThe Ebro delta appears to be in robust health, to a casual observer. There is water gurgling in the canals and irrigation channels, and what appears t…
Tourists evacuated from Pescara as Italy records more than 800 wildfires
Wildfires burn across Italy, Spain, Greece and Turkey in heatwave bringing temperatures above 40CAt least five people have been wounded and holidaymakers evacuated after wildfires devastated a pine wood near a beach in Pescara, Italy, as one of the wo…
The Guardian view on Fortress Europe: a continent losing its moral compass
The increasingly draconian approach to irregular migration betrays the spirit of the 1951 refugee conventionSeventy years ago, the 1951 UN refugee convention established the rights of refugees to seek sanctuary, and the obligations of states to protect…
EU citizens who applied to stay in Britain facing threat of deportation
The Home Office appears to be in breach of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, says legal charityEuropean citizens who have applied for settled status are being detained and threatened with deportation, a development that contradicts assurances from minis…
Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets
The land mass that linked Britain to continental Europe was rich in early human life until it floodedThe idea of a “lost Atlantis” under the North Sea connecting Britain by land to continental Europe had been imagined by HG Wells in the late 19th centu…