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Far-right politicians seize on Ceuta

Several migrants who crossed into Ceuta attributed their arrival to lax Moroccan border protocols. But Europe’s anti-immigrant politicians blamed Spain’s migrant-friendly policies.

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French far-right National Rally party president Jordan Bardella speaking in Lievin, northern France, in July.
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Rare Pompeii Ceiling Is Restored From Fragments, Depicting Scene From Myth

By collecting about 1,000 fragments and painstakingly assembling the pieces, archaeologists restored a scene depicting the popular love story of Dionysus and Ariadne.

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A photo provided by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii on Friday showing part of the restored ceiling of the House with the Bakery at the Pompeii Archaeological site.
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Highway Executive Given 12-Year Sentence Over Deadly Bridge Collapse in Italy

Giovanni Castellucci oversaw a company that managed the Morandi Bridge in Genoa when it fell down in 2018, killing 43 people.

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Giovanni Castellucci at a news briefing in Madrid in 2018. The collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa became a source of national embarrassment, raising alarms about Italy’s aging infrastructure.
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