Four paintings by the Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been stolen from a museum in the south of France. Two thieves broke into the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer on Tuesday morning but dropped two of the paintings in the institution’s garden as they made their escape, local Mayor Bryan Masson said. The paintings, each worth
Hungary has ordered the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats to protect its “security and sovereignty,” the country’s foreign affairs minister, Anita Orbán, announced on Tuesday. The decision comes several months after the Russian investigative outlet Agentstvo reported that nearly one-third of the 47 staff members at the Russian embassy in Budapest have links to Russian
The Eiffel Tower has reopened after a one-day strike was called in response to the landmark’s management ordering female staff to keep out of sight at the request of a visiting religious group. City Hall, which operates the Paris landmark, has apologised for breaching France’s republican principle of equality and ordered a full inquiry. Workers
Stealing from the Louvre is understandable. Who would not want a Géricault or a Leonardo to hang in the downstairs loo? The same goes for the Musée d’Orsay, and even the Pompidou: they are French museums packed with remarkable art, all seemingly ripe for audacious theft. But the Renoir Museum? It is hard to see
French police are hunting two thieves who escaped with two Renoir paintings from a museum on the French Riviera after breaking in through a hole cut in its garden fence. Bryan Masson, the mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer, about 10 miles west of Nice, said the pair appeared to have been “well equipped and well informed” about
Russia says it will give a ‘harsh and painful’ response after Hungary expels 10 diplomats – Europe live Moscow’s foreign minister has warned the “Russophobic lobby in Budapest” after diplomats were expelled for “unacceptable” activities. Updated 38m ago Jakub Krupa and Yohannes Lowe Tue 8 Sep 2026 12.05 EDT First published on Tue 8 Sep
Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that it is closing Germany’s consulate in St. Petersburg. The German consulate in St. Petersburg must cease operations by September 18 at the latest, according to the ministry. “It was the German authorities who, once again, provoked a new round of escalation in bilateral relations,” the Foreign Ministry said,
German chancellor Friedrich Merz has said the far-right Alternative für Deutschland’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt is a shock and “an election result we cannot simply move past”. The chancellor said the vote for the far-right party “will have repercussions” across the country. In his reaction to the result, Merz said the country still needed “fundamental reforms”
The numbers speak for themselves: Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a party that dabbles in Nazi imagery, distinguishes between “biological” and “passport” Germans, and is too extreme even for France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen, nearly doubled its score in Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt to 43.8% of the vote.Meanwhile, the centre-right CDU of the chancellor,
On Monday morning, the first Deutsche Bahn service left Cologne at 6h11, arriving in Zaventem at 8h29, after stopping at Aix-la-Chapelle, Liège and Louvain. The train then continues on to Antwerp. A code-share agreement with Brussels Airlines The big new feature for travellers is the code-share agreement signed with Brussels Airlines. In practical terms, the
