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Helena Smith in Athens
With cruise ships decanting thousands of tourists in Athens, tough new controls have been imposed at the country’s most visited site
It’s official: more than 25 centuries after it was built and nearly 200 years after it began attracting tourists, the Acropolis will adopt crowd control policies to ease the very modern plague of soaring visitor numbers.… Read the rest
Ben Wallace says west would like to see gratitude for help, as Zelenskiy complains over caution on Nato membership
Dan Sabbagh in Vilnius
The British defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has suggested Ukraine needs to put more emphasis on thanking the west for its assistance after Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s complaints on Tuesday that his country had not been issued a firm timetable or set of conditions for joining Nato.… Read the rest
Joe Biden faces backlash from organizations and from within his own party for greenlighting transfer of the weapons
Joe Biden has been condemned by human rights groups after he approved sending widely banned cluster munitions to Ukraine, with one fellow Democrat branding the decision “unnecessary and a terrible mistake”.
Government plans to abolish section 40 law under which news publishers are liable for libel trial legal costs
Labour is heading for a potentially bruising clash with UK news publishers over a controversial piece of post-Leveson press regulation.
An initial 18m doses will be delivered over the next two years to combat a disease that kills nearly half a million children annually
A long-awaited vaccine for malaria has been announced for rollout across 12 African countries over the next two years, potentially saving tens of thousands of lives.