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  • May 30

    Queen Letizia Opens Madrid Book Fair with Literary Confessions, Gifts, and a Nod to Striking Teachers

    Queen Letizia of Spain inaugurated the 85th Madrid Book Fair in El Retiro Park, receiving a bouquet of flowers and a trove of books while revealing she read Knut Hamsun's 'Hunger' at 17 and loved it, unaware of his Nazi sympathies.

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Ceuta drowns, yen gets help

Europe quarrels over Ceuta as Trump pauses Iran strikes and drought hits reactors

Borders, rivers and currencies did most of the moving overnight. Europe argued over Ceuta, Washington and Tehran traded incompatible claims, and drought pushed old energy assumptions into the open.

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  • Fatal crash on Italy Terni-Rieti highway

    Identifies the victims of the Terni-Rieti crash, including the bus driver and two occupants of the camper van, as the injury toll rises to 34.

  • Search off Symi for missing tourists

    Search continues for five missing passengers after an unmanned sailboat was found drifting off the Greek island of Symi, where one woman has been rescued alive.

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World · Updated 28m ago

The war in Ukraine and its limits

Ukraine conducted one of its largest long-range drone operations, striking multiple targets deep inside Russia, while Russia sharply intensified its missile attacks on Ukrainian urban centers, doubling missile numbers in July.

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