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Snowcapped castles, frosty fairytale villages and spellbinding frozen lakes: Beautiful images that show how many of the world’s most iconic destinations look at their best… in winter

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Looking forward to spring and a sunshine getaway?

It’s understandable if you are, but these beautiful images are a reminder that many destinations are actually even more enchanting when they’re besprinkled with snow, freckled with frost and draped in cheek-reddening cold mists. 

Our collection here includes iconic cities from New York to London via Paris and Madrid, all looking incredibly enticing in their winter finery.

This spellbinding portfolio will also whisk you to the village that inspired Frozen’s Arendelle, Slovenia’s

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To ski or not to ski? Do both! Whizzing down slopes at these resorts is a joy – but for non-skiers they also offer monasteries, ice-fishing, torchlight hikes and much more…

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Opinion may be divided about the pleasure of attaching planks to your feet each winter and hurtling down vertiginous slopes on slippery white stuff.

While some are of the misty-eyed, ‘mountains are calling’ school of thought, others may be more of the ‘skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg’ persuasion.

If you are the latter – or just a skier/snowboarder who likes to branch out – here’s

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Weather Punishes Europe, With Portugal Wildfires and Slovenia Floods

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Floods, fires and heavy rains have landed more blows across Europe this week, with the authorities on the continent scrambling to respond to the extreme weather that has become increasingly common in the past few years.

The most recent events have destroyed large amounts of land, left dozens of people injured, forced thousands to evacuate and, in some cases, caused deaths, and they come on the heels of scorching temperatures that have engulfed much of Southern Europe this summer.

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Death toll from Slovenia flooding climbs to six – EURACTIV.com

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The death toll from days of heavy rains and flooding in Slovenia has climbed to six, police said Monday (7 August), as clean-up operations continued with help from neighbouring countries.

Prime Minister Robert Golob has described the torrential rains and severe flooding that hit the Alpine country of two million as its worst natural disaster since independence three decades ago.

Flash floods and landslides that began Thursday had submerged large swathes of central and northern Slovenia, cutting off access to

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Slovenia prime minister estimates flood damage at over €500M – POLITICO

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Two-thirds of Slovenia has been affected by flash floods in the last several days, with the resulting damage likely to exceed half a billion euros, the country’s Prime Minister Robert Golob said on Saturday.

He has called the flooding the “worst natural disaster” in the country’s history, the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) reported.

The flooding, which started Thursday evening, has resulted in landslides and at least three deaths as of Friday, according to the Associated Press. Houses have been swept

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European Parliament set to grow by 15 MEPs in 2024 – POLITICO

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BRUSSELS — An extra 15 MEPs will take up their seats in the European Parliament following next year’s EU elections, after governments struck a preliminary agreement on the size and shape of its composition.

The biggest winners are France, Spain and the Netherlands, as each of these countries will gain two MEPs, while the countries that will add one more are Austria, Belgium, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Latvia, Ireland and Denmark, according to a document from the Council of the

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Inside Ukraine’s first day as an EU member – POLITICO

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This is the moment Ukrainians have been fighting — and dying — for. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is walking up a red carpet in Brussels’ Europa building toward his first meeting of the European Council, the forum where the European Union’s leaders hammer out the bloc’s most perplexing problems.

He has been here before, of course, wearing his olive green sweatshirt in solidarity with the Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the trenches — his eyes exhausted from leading his country through

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How US-made sniper ammunition ends up in Russian rifles – POLITICO

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As gear reviews go, it was a glowing one: In a 60-second video clip posted on Telegram, a masked sniper sporting the death’s-head insignia of the Wagner mercenary army sings the praises of the Russian-made Orsis T-5000 rifle.

“The equipment comes very well recommended,” the soldier, pictured in the charred interior of a building, tells a war reporter from the Zvezda TV channel run by the Russian Ministry of

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A wonk’s guide to the Swedish EU presidency policy agenda – POLITICO

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Sweden’s policy smorgasbord is already groaning with some chewy (and even unpalatable) items — but the Commission keeps adding more to its plate.

By this point in a five-year EU election cycle, the vast majority of new policy proposals have already arrived from the EU executive branch, and are already on their legislative journey. But as Sweden takes over the rotating Council presidency with a year-and-a-half left until the next European election, that’s not the case.

With massive official bandwith

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Emma Raducanu lernt den Gegner bei den Slovenia Open kennen, da der Brite einen enormen Rangrückgang erleidet | Tennis | Sport

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Emma Raducanu hat ihre erste Gegnerin bei den Slovenia Open kennengelernt, nachdem sie nach ihrem frühen Ausscheiden in New York auf Platz 83 der Weltrangliste gefallen war. Die US-Open-Siegerin von 2021 stürzte dieses Jahr in der ersten Runde und versucht nun, wieder auf ihr Karrierehoch von Platz 10 der Welt aufzusteigen, beginnend mit dem WTA-250-Event in Portoroz.

Raducanu nahm diese Woche nach ihrer 3:6-6:3-Niederlage gegen Alize Cornet in der ersten Runde der US Open eine Wildcard für die Slovenia Open

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