Across a decade of rolling threats, from the eurozone to Brexit and Covid, Germany’s outgoing chancellor focused on holding the EU together It was Monday 13 July 2015 and dawn had broken when Angela Merkel said it was all over: Greece would be leaving …
Gold of the Great Steppe review – the breathtaking lives of history’s ‘barbarians’
Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeFrom their astounding burial mounds to their dazzling horses dressed up as mythical beasts, this exhibition about Kazakhstan’s ancient nomads shows the power of archaeology to revive the deadA young archer was buried around…
US envoy to Haiti resigns over ‘inhumane’ decision to deport migrants
Daniel Foote excoriates Washington in letter addressed to Antony Blinken for deporting hundreds from a border campThe US envoy to Haiti dramatically resigned on Thursday in a letter that excoriated Washington for deporting hundreds of migrants to the v…
Wild boar on streets of Rome are being used against me, says mayor
With just over a week until the city goes to the polls the animals may help to unseat Virginia RaggiA group of wild boar strutting along a traffic-filled road in Rome has catapulted the issue of the Italian capital’s state of decay to the top of the de…
BA abandons plans for short-haul subsidiary airline at Gatwick
Proposals for BA-branded subsidiary ditched after pilots refuse to back deal between airline and unionBritish Airways is abandoning plans for a short-haul, BA-branded subsidiary at Gatwick after pilots refused to back a deal between the airline and uni…
Apple opposes EU plans to make common charger port for all devices
Proposals to make USB-C port mandatory could reduce electronic waste and save EU consumers moneyThe European Commission has set out plans for a common charger port for all mobile phones, tablets and headphones, in the face of resistance from US tech gi…
‘We buried our sportswear’: Afghan women fear fight is over for martial arts
Female taekwondo and karate trainers are forced to practise in secret since the Taliban takeover and fear they may never compete againOn the morning of 15 August, when the Taliban were at the gates of Kabul, Soraya, a martial arts trainer in the Afghan…
‘Eco-feminist’ shocks French politics in bid for Greens’ presidency
Sandrine Rousseau says people want politicians to be braver when it comes to tackling the climate crisisHer radical “punk ecology” has won support among activists on the left and been attacked by the far right as dangerous to the French nation. But San…
Experts say China’s low-level cyberwar is becoming severe threat
Activity more overt and reckless despite US, British and other political efforts to bring it to a haltChinese state-sponsored hacking is at record levels, western experts say, accusing Beijing of engaging in a form of low-level warfare that is escalati…
Max Mara’s British designer brings a bit of beatnik to Milan
Ian Griffiths says he spent much of the pandemic at home in Suffolk reading existential novelsThe critic who in 1959 called the writer Françoise Sagan a “luxury hotel existentialist” didn’t mean it as a compliment. But for Ian Griffiths, the British de…