SocietySpain
Spain limits ready meals and fried food in hospitals and care homes
A new royal decree caps precooked dishes at three portions a month in care homes and hospitals, and at one a month for children.
Europe
The latest current affairs news in Europe, told with context and rigour.
ClimateFinland
Finland halts Google's forest clearing for a data centre
A regulator ordered work stopped at Muhos and Kajaani while environmental assessments run. The Guardian put the felling at roughly 250,000 trees; Oulu police have opened a preliminary investigation.
Culture
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CultureUnited Kingdom, United States
Patrick Stewart's Shakespeare: what he leaves beyond Picard
He died on 28 October aged 86. Before the Enterprise came 16 years at the Royal Shakespeare Company and, afterwards, three Olivier Awards and a steady return to the stage.
Analysis and opinion
SocietyAnalysisGreece
Greece bans social media for under-15s from January 2027
Parliament passed the law in a sitting on 22 and 23 October with only the governing party's votes. Brussels is letting it proceed, and age verification, one of the points that stopped a similar French law, is its real test.
SocietyAnalysisEurope
Why Gen Z is protesting across Europe, and why the protests look alike
On 31 October youth demonstrations coincided in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, with a minority's violence part of the story but not the whole of it.
Highlights
SocietyGermany
Fire largely destroys the Kehlsteinhaus, Hitler's Eagle's Nest
The blaze on 23 October gutted the Nazi-era building in the Bavarian Alps. A suspect is in provisional psychiatric care, with no formal charge known and presumed innocent, and Bavaria wants to rebuild.
SocietySpain
Urda train collision: what is known and what is not, five days on
Spain's official toll stands at 69 dead, a control-system failure preceded the crash, and a technical and a judicial inquiry could take a year to name causes.
Science & techFinland
Finland licenses the world's first permanent spent nuclear fuel repository
The Finnish government granted Posiva an operating licence for Onkalo on 22 October, though the company cannot yet start burying spent fuel.
Science & techBelgium, Sweden
Overheated fridges in Belgian and Swedish supermarkets: what we know
Delhaize, Carrefour, Ica and Coop report refrigeration failures blamed on a possible cyberattack, weeks after a similar hit on hundreds of French stores.