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US peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to visit Kyiv and Moscow this weekend, armed with a “proposal to end the war,” US President Donald Trump has announced, in the latest push to break a diplomatic deadlock over the war in Ukraine.

Although I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Europe over the years, most of my experiences have been in western countries like Germany and the U.K. A recent solo trip to Lisbon was my first time setting foot on southern European soil, and I immediately understood the appeal. Portugal has a thriving food scene…

Catacombs—underground rooms and tunnels used as cemeteries—date back to first-century Rome, but the most famous (and infamous) were created across Europe in the 17th century. Overcrowding in Paris’s more traditional burial spaces, as well as sanitation issues, led authorities to turn the miles of tunnels connecting quarries under the city into crypts. It’s believed that…