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A building collapse on Spain’s Mediterranean island of Mallorca has left at least four people dead and injured 21 others. Emergency services said seven people were injured “very seriously” and nine were seriously injured when the roof of a restaurant collapsed. According to Spanish media, the incident took place at around 8:30 p.m. local time (1830 GMT) in the Playa de Palma area, south of the island’s capital, Palma de Mallorca. “I am closely following the consequences of the terrible collapse that occurred on the beach of Palma,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.  Sanchez said…

Four people have been killed and 27 are injured after a building collapsed on a beach in Majorca – with people still trapped inside. An area of the Medusa Beach Club in Palma collapsed at about 8.30pm local time.The area is popular with tourists.Pictures have emerged of emergency services evacuating people from the two-storey building, with some being taken out on stretchers as ambulances waited outside. Image: People are trapped in the building. Pic: AP Image: Pic: AP Image: Pic: AP Footage posted on social media shows crowds gathered outside the restaurant as emergency services go through wreckage.Marga Prohens, President…

In the winter of 2023, health experts across the European continent started noticing something weird. Cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, were rising.  And it wasn’t just happening in Europe. US health officials also began reporting a spike in whooping cough cases. And in the UK, case numbers had risen to their highest point in two decades.  By March 2024, cases had spiked higher in Europe than in the past decade (the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) did not release figures earlier than 2011). Some 32,000 cases were reported across Europe between January and March 2024. According to…

“This is my 33rd Cannes festival and it’s by far the worst I’ve ever seen,” a weary Australian critic moaned to me over coffee as we discussed the high- but mostly lowlights of the 77th Cannes Film Festival. This is “only” my 23rd time, but I had to agree that for the world’s most important film fest, 2024 has not been a banner year. On paper, the lineup looked good. New films from arthouse masters included David Cronenberg’s philosophical horror work “The Shrouds,” Paolo Sorrentino’s modern-day fable “Parthenope,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ star-studded “Kinds of Kindness,” and Paul Schrader’s Vietnam War-era drama “Oh, Canada.” Then there were the potential studio blockbusters from…

The UN General Assembly on Thursday voted to create an annual day of remembrance for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, in which Serb forces killed around 8,000 Muslim men and teenage boys. The resolution designates July 11 as the International Day of Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide. It also condemns “any denial” of the genocide and urges UN member countries to “preserve the established facts.” The resolution was written by Germany and Rwanda — two countries synonymous with 20th-century genocides — but it has faced fierce opposition from Serbia. Although the draft resolution does not specifically mention Serbia as the perpetrator, some Serb leaders nevertheless fear…

Germans have been drinking coffee for almost four centuries now, with the beverage having gained wider popularity in the 19th century when consumption spread across all social classes. The beverage became deeply ingrained in German culture, leading to various coffee traditions and rituals, such as Kaffee und Kuchen — coffee and cake ­— in the afternoon. After World War II, the coveted beans were even the preferred contraband of smugglers from the neighboring Netherlands because the German coffee trade had largely collapsed with the end of Hitler’s Third Reich. It was not until the start of the so-called post-war economic miracle in the…

After a string of scandals and just two weeks out from EU elections, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been ejected from the European Parliamentary group it shared with France’s Rassemblement National among others. “The Bureau of the Identity and Democracy Group in the European Parliament has decided today to exclude the German delegation, AfD, with immediate effect,” the political faction announced on Thursday. The decision comes after Maximilian Krah, the AfD lead candidate in next month’s poll, had to fire a senior staff member who was arrested on suspicion of spying for China. Krah’s own ties to both China and Russia…

Sinn Fein voters would feel betrayed if their MPs took their seats at Westminster.They elect them on the basis that they have promised not to do so. The policy dates to 1917, when the party’s first elected members adopted the abstentionist position.Follow live updates after general election calledSinn Fein’s first MP – Joseph McGuinness – would not have been able to take his seat, even if he wanted to. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 4:45 Why has an election been called? He was elected from a prison, while serving time for his role in the…

Writers, artists, filmmakers and intellectuals are all among the huge movement of peaceful protest marches that have been taking place in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi and other cities. The protests primarily target the so-called law on transparency of foreign influence, or “foreign agents” law. What’s behind Georgia’s divisive ‘foreign agents’ law?To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoThis legislation from the ruling Georgian Dream party requires non-governmental organizations (NGOs), media organizations and other groups that receive more than 20% of their financing from foreign sources to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power.” “The independent cultural…

Do Bayern Munich have a head coach yet? No, but it doesn’t look like it will be long before that changes. Ever since the news was announced that current boss Thomas Tuchel would be leaving at the end of the season, Bayern Munich have desperately tried to find their next head coach. Xabi Alonso, Julian Nagelsmann, Ralf Rangnick, Hansi Flick, Unai Emery, Erik ten Hag, Oliver Glasner and Roberto De Zerbi were all among reported targets who either cooled interest or outright rejected concrete approaches. There were even talks late in the season to try and get Tuchel to stay on,…