BBC World
Israel seizes a 900-year-old Crusader castle in Lebanon while expanding its ground offensive, warning more residents to flee as casualties mount on both sides.
TechCrunch
SoftBank commits €75 billion to build French data centers, because where else would you store all those AI-generated sonnets about baguettes?
The Guardian
Europe's heat dome breaks records, kills a few, and makes everyone rethink global warming; Australia gets thunderstorms and flash floods for variety.
The Guardian Europe
Influencers discover cancoillotte, a low-fat French cheese that's been around for centuries, and promptly declare it a life-changing miracle while producers scramble to keep up with demand.
BBC World
Portugal breaks May heat record, Europe sweats through heat dome, French exams continue because schedule, and scientists confirm summer is getting worse.
The Guardian Europe
France’s parliament unanimously votes to scrap a 1685 law that treated enslaved people as movable property, nearly 180 years after slavery was abolished - because better late than never, right?
BBC Politics
Nearly 1,000 migrants crossed the English Channel over the bank holiday weekend, because apparently the smugglers don't get bank holidays off.
The Guardian
France and the UK smash May temperature records as a heat dome turns Europe into a pre-summer sauna, with scientists warning this is the new normal.
The Guardian Europe
Gisèle Pelicot, 73, tells Hay festival she fell in love with a 'young man of 73' and learned to trust again after her ex-husband’s decade-long rape campaign.
BBC World
A French mother and her ex-gendarme partner allegedly abandoned her kids on a Portuguese roadside, then serenaded the court. Foster care: the new hide-and-seek.
The Guardian Europe
France's government tried to pass a law that would have made criticising Israel a crime, backed down after massive opposition, but is still prosecuting anyone who speaks up anyway.
BBC Health
A cruise ship passenger develops hantavirus symptoms mid-flight, because apparently the outbreak needed a dramatic airborne encore.
The Guardian Europe
France extends €1 meals to all university students, because apparently the previous policy of letting nearly half of them go hungry wasn't working out.
The Good Times
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