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Border controls between Spain and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar have been abolished. A post-Brexit agreement negotiated between London and Brussels that came into force on Wednesday also provides for the removal of the border fence erected in 1908. For commuters in particular, this means an end to hours of waiting at the border. Commentators take a closer look at the ramifications.

The latest film by star director Christopher Nolan (the Batman trilogy and Oppenheimer) is now screening in cinemas. By choosing Homer's Odyssey – a classic more than 2,500 years old – as the basis for his story, Nolan has sparked a vigorous discussion: can an ancient epic be brought to life with the spectacular animation fantasy worlds of a contemporary Hollywood blockbuster? The Greek press weighs in.

BBC Sport revient sur la prestation magistrale de Lionel Messi sur l'aile droite qui a permis d'éliminer l'Angleterre de la Coupe du monde.

BBC Sport revient sur la prestation magistrale de Lionel Messi sur l'aile droite qui a permis d'éliminer l'Angleterre de la Coupe du monde.

AMENDMENTS 1 - 277 - Draft report Towards an EU strategy to protect and strengthen the international justice system and its institutions, mechanisms and partners
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Mounir Satouri

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Outre les décès, 19 personnes ont été blessées dans un incendie qui s'est déclaré dans un orphelinat de la municipalité de Mohammadia, à l'est de la capitale algérienne, selon les autorités.

Outre les décès, 19 personnes ont été blessées dans un incendie qui s'est déclaré dans un orphelinat de la municipalité de Mohammadia, à l'est de la capitale algérienne, selon les autorités.

Manchester embodies reinvention like few other places. It built the world’s first industrial economy, watched it rust, and recast itself as the capital of England’s north. When protests turned deadly at the Peterloo massacre, it helped galvanise a tradition of organised labour and democratic reform — one that later produced the suffragettes, founded there by Emmeline Pankhurst. And when the band Joy Division collapsed, the remaining members re-emerged as New Order. That instinct — not to reassemble what broke, but to build something new — was the animating spirit when the University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute convened researchers in mid-April to ask: is the era of Development over? And if so, what replaces it?

The Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the proposal to establish the programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE), a new €115 million instrument designed to provide rapid, agile and targeted financial support to small and medium-sized enterprises.

Today, the Council agreed its position on the 2027 EU draft budget – the last annual budget of the current multiannual financial framework.

EU support will help member states implement the pact on migration and asylum, ensure efficient management of the EU’s external borders, and fight crime.

The temporary protection status granted to those fleeing Ukraine will be extended until 4 March 2028, delivering on the EU’s commitment to support Ukraine and its people for as long as it takes.

The ninth meeting of the Accession Conference with Albania was held today provisionally closing chapters 25 (science and research), 26 (education and culture), and 30 (external relations).