Visit Rome by night: Italian capital tests new tourism strategy
Europe • Aug 18, 2026, 9:20 AM
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In the face of recent heatwaves and the big crowds that saturate the historic tourist sites during the day, this summer, Rome is testing a new way to visit the city: by opening tourist sites at night. This initiative includes museums, parks, archeological sites, monuments, villas, and historic residences. A revolution in the tourist rhythm explained by our correspondent in Rome, Natalia Mendoza, along with Bernard Bedarida and Charlotte Davan Wetton.
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France to deliver interceptor missiles to Ukraine after fresh wave of Russian strikes
Europe • 1:26 PM
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This Saturday saw a continued exchange of fire between Kyiv and Moscow. French President Emmanuel Macron announced Paris would deliver new interceptor missiles to Ukraine, whose air defences are running short after the latest round of deadly Russian atta
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Antwerp's 'human zoo': Belgium confronts shame of colonial past
Europe • 11:05 AM
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In 1894, when the Belgian city of Antwerp was hosting a World's Fair, more than a hundred Congolese people were forcibly brought to the city to be exhibited in the Congo Pavilion. In this "human zoo", seven Congolese men ultimately died of disease. Today
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Children among wounded in Zelensky's hometown, struck by Russian drones
Europe • 9:38 AM
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Early this Saturday, Russian strikes killed at least two people in Ukraine. In Zaporizhzhia, a drone killed a man and wounded four, according to officials, while a warehouse was on fire in Kyiv. It comes after a Russian bombing killed at least 20 people
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Russian strikes Zelensky's hometown in Ukraine, killing 15 people, wounding 130
Europe • 9:08 AM
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Russian drones struck a shopping centre in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine this Friday. 14 people were killed. Authorities reported that children were among the scores of people injured in the strikes, which targeted President Volodymyr Zelensk
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Macron says France will deliver interceptor missiles to Ukraine after new Russian strikes
Europe • 6:02 AM
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French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday that Paris would deliver new interceptor missiles to Ukraine after Russian strikes reportedly killed four people, including two children. The strikes followed a series of Russian attacks that killed at least
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