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    • Monday, 29 May, 2023
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      Deserved Palme d’Or for Anatomy of a Fall at Cannes Film Festival

      French director Justine Triet takes home top award for crime drama starring Sandra Hüller

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      Alluring new stays from Kraków to Porto

    • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
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      From a house with three outdoor terraces and a koi pond to a penthouse five minutes’ walk from Englischer Garten

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      Warming climate prompts ban on construction of new homes and swimming pools in hilltop Provence villages

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
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      Olivier Vandecasteele and Asadollah Asadi were released on Friday as part of a trade mediated by Oman

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
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      Green policy forcing homeowners to install heating systems powered by renewables dubbed the ‘heat hammer’

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
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      Preliminary charges filed against five emergency service officials for not assisting people in danger

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
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      Fall in German GDP increases threat of sustained recession in EU’s largest economy

      First-quarter decline, on weak consumer and industrial activity, is second consecutive contraction in output

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
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      Germany’s Bundesliga shows red card to private equity money

      Plan to sell stake in league’s media rights fails to secure two-thirds majority from clubs

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      Roland Busch stresses its importance for innovation despite pressure from Berlin to diversify

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      Foreign minister Annalena Baerbock has made a political comeback juggling Green values with realpolitik

    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
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      Mohamed Bazoum says Paris’s counterterror efforts have been unfairly maligned because of anti-western ‘propaganda’

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      National security strategy aims to reassure allies about Berlin’s role in European defence

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      Opposition parties rail against artefacts being entrusted to a king

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      Johnny Depp mumbles his way through period drama ‘Jeanne du Barry’ but Pedro Almodóvar rides to the rescue with ‘Strange Way of Life’

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      News in-depthGerman politics
      Germany’s star Habeck brought down to earth by cronyism and boilers

      Vice-chancellor’s unpopularity contrasts with the adulation he enjoyed for many years

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
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      France holds up EU energy agreement over nuclear power

      Paris withdraws support for renewable targets law as it seeks inclusion of hydrogen produced with atomic power

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
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      Germany’s economy minister sacks close aide in nepotism scandal

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      Pieces inspired by transgender people in west Africa and hair-braiding feature in this experimental festival

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      Former French president sentenced to one-year prison term but will continue legal fight

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      Five members of notorious Remmo family gang lifted items from Dresden museum

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      Riad Salameh failed to appear before Paris investigators over corruption and money-laundering

    • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
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      Rheinmetall deal to repair western tanks in war-torn country also announced around president’s visit to Berlin

    • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
      German politics
      German Greens suffer worst result in more than 20 years in regional poll

      Nepotism allegations and outcry over planned law on carbon-free heating set party back in Bremen

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