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• Police aborted pursuit about 10 seconds before fatal crash, watchdog says
  23 August 2026
  Officers had been pursing a car before it went the wrong way down a dual carriageway.
• CrossCountry to provide full service on Monday after major disruption
  23 August 2026
  CrossCountry says its "key priority" is now restoring as close to a normal service as possible.
• Trump says Canada wants 'benefits' of being US state after trade talks collapse
  23 August 2026
  Canada's PM said he was "reluctantly" announcing retaliatory tariffs and accused the US of starting a trade war.
• Newcastle and Liverpool united in tribute to legend Keegan
  23 August 2026
  Both Newcastle and Liverpool pay tribute to their legendary player on the opening weekend of the Premier League season.
• Man arrested travelling to France after London fire left one dead and eight injured
  23 August 2026
  A 34-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murder following a fatal fire in Hounslow.
• ECB investigating England bowler Brydon Carse for 'nightclub incident'
  23 August 2026
  The ECB is investigating after videos circulating online appear to show England bowler Brydon Carse being led away from a nightclub in handcuffs.
• Zelensky should be asked what he knew about government corruption, sacked minister tells BBC
  23 August 2026
  Mykhailo Fedorov has also called for wartime elections to be held in Ukraine.
• France links sharp rise in drownings to heatwaves
  23 August 2026
  A government minister says people have been taking risks by going into the water, with 301 deaths since 19 June.
• Trump waves green flag kicking off high-speed IndyCar race through Washington
  23 August 2026
  The president took a ceremonial lap of the track before the race, which is the culmination of a summer of events to mark the country's 250th birthday.
• Scammers increasingly using QR codes to steal money and data
  23 August 2026
  Scammers set up a monthly subscription of £60 from Les Howard's account after he downloaded an app.

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• Crans-Montana bar owner detained over alleged domestic abuse
  23 August 2026
  The owner of a Swiss bar where a New Year’s fire killed 41 people has been placed in pre-trial detention over alleged violence against his wife, local media reported Sunday. Jacques Moretti and his wife, Jessica, are already under criminal investigation over the deadly blaze at Le Constellation in Crans-Montana.
• French centre-left candidate launches presidential bid amid divided left
  23 August 2026
  Centre-left politician Raphaël Glucksmann on Sunday launched his bid for the French presidency, aiming to unite moderate left-wing voters and challenge Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s influence ahead of France’s 2027 election. With Marine Le Pen leading first-round polls, Glucksmann is seeking to position himself as a pro-European, pro-Ukraine alternative to both the far right and hard left.
• Emergency declared in Nevada as wildfire forces evacuation of 14,000 people
  23 August 2026
  Firefighters in Nevada are struggling to contain a fast-growing wildfire which has already forced the evacuation of nearly 14,000 people. A state of emergency has been called, meaning federal responders are working alongside local firefighters to try and keep it from residential areas. Details by Camille Knight.
• Thousands rally in Sweden to protest climate policies ahead of general election
  23 August 2026
  Some 10,000 people rallied in Stockholm on Sunday to demand stronger action on climate change, weeks before Sweden’s general election. Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg joined the rally, as organisers accused the government of weakening emissions policies and urged politicians to act faster to meet Sweden’s climate targets.
• Zelensky rejects wartime elections, saying vote would 'split' Ukraine
  23 August 2026
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that holding elections during wartime would pose a threat to the country, following a controversial call by his former defense minister to pave the way for an election. According to the latest opinion poll by the Kyiv Institute of Sociology carried out this summer, only 15 per cent of those surveyed want an election to be held at this time. Details by Eliza Herbert.
• Zelensky rejects rival's call for elections, says would be 'huge risk' for Ukraine
  23 August 2026
  Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected the prospect of wartime elections, saying it would be highly dangerous. The remarks come in response to a call from the former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov to organise a vote, after he was fired by Zelensky last month. Analysis by FRANCE 24 international affairs editor Matthew-Mary Caruchet.
• China abruptly delays ambitious Chang’e-7 mission to find water ice on moon
  23 August 2026
  China has postponed its Chang’e-7 lunar mission, which was due to launch in the coming days and search for water ice near the Moon’s south pole, a government agency said Saturday. Officials said the mission did not meet launch conditions, without providing further details.
• Greek Ithaca island hopes for big tourism boost thanks to Odyssey movie
  23 August 2026
  Greece's most famous islands have spent this year fighting to keep tourists out... with Santorini and Mykonos now capping cruise arrivals and charging steep entry fees just to manage the crowds. But on one small island, they're hoping for the opposite problem. Ithaca, the legendary home of Homer's Ulysses, is banking on a Hollywood boost, as Christopher Nolan's Odyssey draws new attention to a corner of Greece that's largely stayed off the tourist map. Story by Camille Knight.
• How will European politicians react to a summer of extreme heat?
  23 August 2026
  Europe this summer has had to face record breaking temperatures, which caused droughts, deaths, and caused devastating wildfires. While the latest heat dome has dissipated, the damage remains – the continent continues to be the fastest warming globally. Will this summer serve as a global climate reckoning? Answer with Stefan Eye-cot, professor of sociology at the University of Hamburg.
• The week in pictures: a French woman in space, wildfires in Europe and the war in Ukraine
  23 August 2026
  Russian drones carry out deadly strikes in Ukraine, astronaut Sophie Adenot becomes the first French woman to spacewalk, fires rage in Belgium and across Europe, and torrential rain hits the Philippines: FRANCE 24 takes a look at the week's most striking images.  

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23 August 2026

• 'France and the UK should act together to uphold international law in Palestine': An open letter by former French and British ambassadors
  22 August 2026
  In response to Israel's policy of occupation and destruction, around one hundred former representatives of France and the United Kingdom urge their governments to act through a series of sanctions aimed at safeguarding the rule of law.
• UK court orders Prince Harry, Elton John and others to pay £9.5 million to 'Daily Mail' tabloid
  21 August 2026
  Prince Harry and six other well-known figures were ordered on Friday to make the payment to the publisher of the 'Daily Mail' within a week after they lost their privacy case against the British tabloid.
• Europeans pressure Israel over West Bank settlements, citing 'unprecedented levels of violence'
  21 August 2026
  France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands have issued a joint statement calling Israel's decision to publish tenders for construction in the so-called E1 area of the Palestinian West Bank 'unacceptable,' warning it would effectively split the occupied territory in two.
• Why British Prime Minister Andy Burnham should matter to Europe
  21 August 2026
  In a bid to win back his party's traditional base, the new Labour prime minister is focusing on domestic policy. However, his ambitions for industrial revival could pave the way for closer ties with the European Union, observes political scientist Sébastien Maillard.
• France joins European powers in call for Israel to halt West Bank settlement plan
  20 August 2026
  France, Britain, Germany and Italy condemned on Thursday the Israeli government's opening for bids to build more than 1,200 homes in a controversial West Bank settlement plan approved last year.
• France fines UK fashion site Boohoo over fake sales
  20 August 2026
  Boohoo has been handed a €2.33 million fine by France's anti-fraud and consumer agency, which found the UK-based online retailer had falsely promoted clothes and other items as discounts.
• Prince Harry and Meghan to move back to the UK, press reports
  20 August 2026
  According to British news outlets, the couple will leave the US by the end of the month to settle in a non-royal residence outside of London. Their two children have already been enrolled in a British school.
• Fires and 'megaboats' fuel tensions over Channel crossings in northern France
  19 August 2026
  Since the beginning of 2026, the number of attempted crossings to England has fallen sharply, but larger boats have created significant safety problems. Meanwhile, some locals have accused migrants of starting fires.
• Moscow warns London over role in Ukraine conflict after UK-made drones strike Russia
  18 August 2026
  Drones supplied to Ukraine by a British defense firm were reportedly used to carry out strikes on Russian territory. In a statement on Monday, Russia's embassy in London accused Britian of becoming 'an accomplice and co-perpetrator' of the attacks.
• Thousands mourn ex-Cambridge professor Jason Arday in London vigil
  17 August 2026
  Star academic Jason Arday was found dead on Friday, August 14, amid growing furore over claims of academic plagiarism.

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24 August 2026

• Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan deepen alliance with $1bn trade target and stronger Trans-Caspian links
  23 August 2026
  Presidents Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Ilham Aliyev signed a Treaty on Eternal Friendship in Tashkent and launched new projects in banking, energy, tourism and mining. The two countries will also co-host the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2027.
• Trump sends Indiana stone to Italy to carve White House ballroom columns
  23 August 2026
  The sculptors of the White House's new ballroom façade remain unnamed. Indiana limestone will be worked in Italy, likely in Carrara, Tuscany, the historic centre of marble craft.
• Thousands rally in Stockholm over climate crisis weeks ahead of general election
  23 August 2026
  The protest comes as experts in Sweden have warned that the government's climate policy jeopardises the country's emissions-cutting goals to reduce CO₂ emissions from transport by 70 percent by 2030 and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2045.
• Hats on, shades on: Tourists in Greece better prepared for sun and heat risks
  23 August 2026
  Awareness about wearing a hat has grown as Europe struggles with successive heatwaves and forest fires.
• Latest news bulletin | August 23rd, 2026 – Evening
  23 August 2026
  Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this August 23rd, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
• Western leaders arrive in Kyiv as Ukrainian forces set sights on Russia's Ozon
  23 August 2026
  Russian forces also carried out a number of attacks on Ukraine's railway network on Sunday as Ukrainians prep for the country's Independence Day.
• Trump claims Hormuz on Truth Social, Rezaei says 'shut until US changes'
  23 August 2026
  Rezaei told Iranian state TV that the Strait of Hormuz is closed, despite US claims, and will not reopen until America changes its 'behaviour'.
• Sydney Marathon mishap: Munich's Allianz Arena appears on finisher medal
  23 August 2026
  More than 40,000 people are expected for the Sydney Marathon, but just before the start the finisher's medal causes a stir: it appears to show Munich's Allianz Arena instead of a Sydney stadium.
• Migrant row: Ireland seeks returns to Italy, Sea Watch 5 detained in Naples
  23 August 2026
  Tension over migration as Ireland backs the new EU Pact and seeks to return asylum seekers to first-entry states, including Italy, which stopped a German NGO ship.
• ECB head Christine Lagarde 'ready to serve' WEF, report says
  23 August 2026
  The World Economic Forum is currently co-chaired by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and André Hoffmann, the vice chairman of Roche.

Observer

• How Venice and New Media Art Are Making the White Cube Increasingly Obsolete
  22 August 2026
  A recent run of ambitious site-specific projects demonstrates aptly why exhibitions must be conceived in dialogue with architecture, history and the bodies moving through them.
• FEMSA Has Spent 50 Years Building a More Complete Record of Latin American Art
  21 August 2026
  From its origins in a Dr. Atl donation to its current committee-driven acquisition process, the collection's curators describe a five-decade effort to trace a comprehensive history of Latin American art while keeping the collection itinerant by design.
• One Fine Show: “The Renaissance Engraver at Work” at the Cleveland Museum of Art
  21 August 2026
  The show draws on a medium that emerged in the mid-1400s, whose earliest technical processes remain only partly understood even now.
• The 2026 BMW 550e xDrive Downplays Looks But Delivers on Power
  21 August 2026
  There's nothing beyond its classic badge that shouts BMW from a distance; it's elegant and stately, but a little stolid for a car with its ancestral DNA.
• Harvard’s $2.2B SpaceX Stake Shows How Elite Universities Invest in Tech
  21 August 2026
  Harvard’s $2.2 billion SpaceX stake highlights how top university endowments are increasingly investing in startups and venture capital.
• The Icy Gays Built a Collection By Cultivating Relationships—and Ignoring Market Hype
  21 August 2026
  Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall routinely back hyper-emerging artists early and have turned their Instagram connections into a real-world community.
• How Lilly Pulitzer Outlasted the Preppy Cliché
  21 August 2026
  Long before the brand became synonymous with collegiate pearls and twinsets, its founder was a Palm Beach rebel whose original vision is finally driving the modern prep revival.
• Preppy Style, All Grown Up: The 17 Pieces That Still Work
  21 August 2026
  The Oxford shirt, rugby jersey and penny loafer escaped the campus long ago.
• Catherine Opie’s Norwegian Landscapes Are Portraits in Disguise
  21 August 2026
  An exhibition of her outsider’s gaze on Norway's unique topography, on at PoMo through January 3, took shape after a three-week winter road trip in 2024.
• My Unsentimental Education: Cupid Has Flown the Co-Op (The End of Love in Manhattan)
  20 August 2026
  Candace Bushnell's most searching column asks the question Manhattan had stopped bothering to answer: whatever happened to love?

Europe : Latest news on Le Monde.fr.

23 August 2026

• Spanish Civil War: 'How I found my Republican great-grandfather, forgotten in mass graves'
  23 August 2026
  Like thousands of other Spanish Republicans, José Molina Lopez was cast into an anonymous mass grave and had his memory erased by the narrative imposed by the dictator Franco. Journalist Garance Muñoz retraced her great-grandfather's story, a reparative journey enabled by laws passed since 2007.
• The slow reconciliation of Polish and Ukrainian memories over World War II mass graves
  22 August 2026
  In the former villages of Wola Ostrowiecka and Ostrowki in western Ukraine, archaeologists and historians have been exhuming the bodies of Polish civilians massacred by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943. More than 80 years later, this painful past still weighs on diplomatic relations between Kyiv and Warsaw.
• Heavy rain floods northeastern Spain, injures 11
  22 August 2026
  According to the local weather service, some areas in the Catalonia region recorded more than 100 liters of rain per square meter overnight from Friday to Saturday.
• 'France and the UK should act together to uphold international law in Palestine': An open letter by former French and British ambassadors
  22 August 2026
  In response to Israel's policy of occupation and destruction, around one hundred former representatives of France and the United Kingdom urge their governments to act through a series of sanctions aimed at safeguarding the rule of law.
• Sword attack in Sweden leaves one dead and three wounded
  22 August 2026
  A sword-wielding attacker, who entered a high school in central Sweden on Friday, was arrested after killing a 17-year-old and injuring three others.
• Turkey issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu, who calls Erdogan an 'antisemitic dictator'
  21 August 2026
  The Turkish arrest warrant accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of 'crimes against humanity, genocide, aggravated deprivation of liberty,' and 'torture,' linked to Israel's treatment of activists from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
• France announces meeting of 'coalition of the willing' Ukraine allies as Russia steps up airstrikes
  21 August 2026
  Leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom will co-chair the meeting of countries pledging defense support to Ukraine in Kyiv on Monday, the French presidency said Friday. The meeting comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urges a response to increased ballistic missile strikes on the capital.
• UK court orders Prince Harry, Elton John and others to pay £9.5 million to 'Daily Mail' tabloid
  21 August 2026
  Prince Harry and six other well-known figures were ordered on Friday to make the payment to the publisher of the 'Daily Mail' within a week after they lost their privacy case against the British tabloid.
• Spanish police arrest five alleged Ceuta traffickers
  21 August 2026
  Police say they have arrested five people suspected of providing transport to mainlain Spain from the enclave of Ceuta following the influx of 72,000 irregular migrants from Morocco in July.
• Europeans pressure Israel over West Bank settlements, citing 'unprecedented levels of violence'
  21 August 2026
  France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands have issued a joint statement calling Israel's decision to publish tenders for construction in the so-called E1 area of the Palestinian West Bank 'unacceptable,' warning it would effectively split the occupied territory in two.