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Japan honours assassinated ex-PM Abe at controversial state funeral

Japanese and foreign dignitaries paid tribute to assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe at a controversial state funeral on Tuesday, as long lines of people gathered to offer flowers and prayers. [...]

NASA's DART mission successfully smashes spacecraft into asteroid

A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. [...]

Live: Kremlin proxies in Ukraine hold last day of discredited referendums

Annexation polls organised by Kremlin-installed authorities in four regions of Ukraine mostly controlled by Russian forces were due to close Tuesday, with Moscow's threats of nuclear weapons looming. Negotiators of a stop-gap spending bill in the US Congress agreed on Monday to include nearly $12 billion in new military and economic aid to Ukraine, sources familiar with the talks said. Follow our live blog for the latest developments. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). [...]

France marks bicentenary of deciphering of Rosetta Stone hieroglyphics

Two hundred years ago, a young French linguist had a major eureka moment. In 1822, everything suddenly made sense for Jean-François Champollion as he deciphered the hieroglyphics – the ancient Egyptian code that had bamboozled scholars for years – on the famous Rosetta Stone. Thanks to his hard work, the mysterious symbols chipped into stone finally had meaning. In this special edition of France in Focus, we travel to the town of Vif in France's eastern Isère region to follow in the footsteps of the child prodigy who would become the first head of the Louvre museum's department of Egyptian antiquities. [...]

How Giorgia Meloni took over the Italian right – and then the country

Giorgia Meloni, whose far-right Brothers of Italy triumphed in Sunday’s general election, has succeeded in channelling both the aspirations of conservative voters and resentment of Mario Draghi’s unelected government, without fully renouncing her party’s neo-fascist roots. [...]

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