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Captured British soldiers in Bruges … and now – interactive

20 May 2014: In the latest of our weekly series of interactive photographs to mark the centenary of the first world war, British soldiers captured by troops of the Central Powers are led through the main square in Bruges, Belgium ... and the city's Grote Markt today
Cannes: a new day, a new Palme d'Or favourite with Two Days, One Night

20 May 2014: The Dardenne brothers' employment rights fable looks likely to beat off stiff competition and bag them their third Palme d'Or, while star Marion Cotillard is on course for best actress
• Peter Bradshaw's five star review
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Cannes 2014 review: Two Days, One Night - Marion Cotillard magnificent in Dardenne brothers' latest

20 May 2014: Cannes favourite Marion Cotillard teams up with festival veterans Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for a brilliantly taut and telling redundancy drama, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Jean-Luc Dehaene obituary

16 May 2014: Belgian prime minister and EU federalist with a forte for negotiation 3 comments
EU enthusiasts share their Euro vision at Strasbourg youth conference

12 May 2014: Youth unemployment and the need for more democracy are among the hot topics at three-day European Youth Event 21 comments
The road to the battlefields of Ypres in 1919 … and now – interactive

30 Apr 2014: The destroyed Belgian city of Ypres is seen from the Menin Road in 1919, and today. Hundreds of thousands of troops marched eastwards from here to the battlefields of the Ypres Salient, scene of the first world war's biggest battles took place 16 comments
Norway to restage 1914 'human zoo' that exhibited Africans as inmates

29 Apr 2014: Artists claim recreating exhibition will help country confront its colonial past. Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire is not convinced 143 comments
Belgian chief warden of DRC national park wounded in gun attack

16 Apr 2014: Emmanuel de Mérode in stable condition in hospital after he was apparently targeted in attack at Virunga national park
PET scans could predict extent of recovery from brain injury, trials shows

16 Apr 2014: Hospital trials in Belgium identify hidden levels of consciousness in third of patients who have been unresponsive for over a year 3 comments
Saddles, Somme and snow: a tale of the toughest cycle race ever

8 Apr 2014: Across the battlefields of the first world war, nothing has ever tested riders more than 1919's Circuit de Champs de Bataille
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Britain's honeybee colony deaths among worst in Europe, study reveals

7 Apr 2014: Landmark research shows 29% of honeybee colonies died in winter of 2012-13, with summer losses also high at 9.7% 51 comments
Ypres in the first world war ... and now – interactive

2 Apr 2014: In the first of a new weekly series of interactive photographs for the first world war's centenary, the destruction wreaked on the Belgian city of Ypres is laid bare, as soldiers swarm on the wrecked ramparts. Today, the town is a centre of pilgrimage for families touched by the war 64 comments
Catherine Deneuve criticises Gérard Depardieu over move away from France

1 Apr 2014: French screen legend says fellow actor wrong to want to avoid paying taxes at home, and is 'no example to follow'
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Ukraine: this is not another cold war with Russia, says Barack Obama – video

Video (1min 25sec), 27 Mar 2014: Barack Obama delivers a speech on Wednesday at the end of a 22-hour visit to Brussels
Will Orkney and Shetland join the micronationalists?

24 Mar 2014: Will Orkney and Shetland join the micronationalists?
As Scotland debates splitting from the UK, some of its islands are now demanding the right to their own independence vote. Where will it all end?
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Euthanasia for children is hard to contemplate – but we must talk about it

17 Feb 2014

Tom Riddington: Belgium's new law that will allow terminally ill children to die addresses the anguish of people in utterly intolerable situations
Why does the British press avoid debating EU membership?

22 Oct 2013

Former Labour minister, Denis MacShane, wonders why our national newspapers failed to sponsor a debate on the future of Europe
Diamond 'heists' are not glamorous, they're nasty crimes by nasty people

20 Feb 2013

Stephen Kelly: The glossy Hollywood spin of films like Ocean's 11 has removed us from the reality of robberies such as the one in Brussels
Recession is only one explanation for the drive for secession

24 Nov 2012

Paolo Dardanelli: Breakaway parties in Belgium, Scotland and Catalonia are fuelled by a complex mix of issues around identity and sovereignty
The first world war: the real lessons of this savage imperial bloodbath

16 Oct 2012

Seumas Milne: David Cameron wants to turn the first world war into a focus of national pride. That should be resisted every step of the way