THE LAST pit in this northern French village closed in 1974, but the silhouettes of its slag heaps still rise in the distance across flat farmland. They bear witness to the muscular past of the mining basin, which a century ago employed 130,000 people.
TopIstanbul has become a refuge for thousands of Russians escaping Putin
ARSENY, A FASHION photographer, and his boyfriend Vova, a film director, woke up in Moscow on the day Russia invaded Ukraine and realised their country had reached a point of no return. “We had been living a lie,” Arseny says.
TopThe EU’s unity over Ukraine has given it surprising heft
IT MAY BE called the European Union, but it has often struggled to live up to its name. Not in recent weeks. Ever since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia on February 24th, the 27 member states of the EU have acted as one. Cohesive in its aims and co-ordinated in its actions, Europe has basked in its novel role as a first-rate power.
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