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Photo Olivier Chassignole / AFPA Ukrainian soldier aims his weapon during an exercise at a French military base. He is one of 7,000 Ukrainians that France will train this year to prepare them to fight against Russia. International media, including the AFP news agency, Le Monde and the AP news agency, were allowed to attend a training...

Spain has a prime minister again after four months. Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez was elected as prime minister on Thursday afternoon after a vote in parliament in which he won a majority: 179 of the 350 parliamentarians supported him.The vote took place under heavy security measures for the first time since the transition to democracy in the second...

The town of Beaumerie-Saint-Martin in the northern French department of Pas-de-Calais does not have a café, so the kitchen of Thierry Leviel (55) serves as a neighborhood pub. Every hour a friend drops in for a cup of filter coffee at the wooden kitchen table. Leviel – a cattle farmer with rough working hands and a strong...

A "beautiful flower arrangement from the KNVB" lay with the coffin of Gien van Maanen, who pioneered women's football in the Netherlands in the 1950s. “And with that they have more than made up for all the mistakes in the past,” says cousin Yvonne van Viegen (59), who organized the funeral of her childless aunt in early November....

“Will this country follow a conservative course or will we retain the progressive Netherlands?” According to D66 leader Rob Jetten, this will be the "most exciting elections since 2002". These "are not just about social security, but about the simple question: can we, as an LGBTI community, really exist and be free?" Jetten said last month at...