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Former U.S. President Barack Obama told the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on Monday that most nations failed to meet their commitments made in the 2015 Paris Climate Conference agreement and the world is nowhere near where it needs to be in confronting climate change.more

Minister Stephen Barclay has expressed his "regret" over the "mistake" the government made with the vote on Owen Paterson's conduct last week. Government-backed plans to review MP standard rules, after Mr Paterson was found to have broken lobbying rules, were withdrawn following a backlash.more

The civic project "Stop abortion", which equates abortion with murder, will pass the first reading and then should be sent for further work in the Sejm - this is the scenario that emerges from the words of MPs from the governing coalition, writes today's "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna".more

There are more delegates at COP26 associated with the fossil fuel industry than from any single country, analysis shared with the BBC shows. Campaigners led by Global Witness assessed the participant list published by the UN at the start of this meeting.more

Police, Border Guard and army officers are at the border in Kuźnica; Polish services are prepared for any circumstances," deputy head of the Ministry of Interior and Administration Maciej Wąsik assured after a video circulated on the internet showing a large group of migrants heading towards the Polish border.more

The UK's trade deal with the EU could collapse in a row over Northern Ireland, says a senior Irish minister. The UK is thought to be preparing to suspend parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol.more

Four men hijacked and set fire to a bus in a pro-British unionist community in Northern Ireland on Sunday evening, police said. "It was reported that four men got onto the bus and ordered passengers off before the bus was then set alight," the Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a statement.more

Ministers and negotiators at COP26 should "pull together and drive for the line" to secure ambitious action on climate change, Boris Johnson has said. The prime minister said countries must be ready to "make the bold compromises and ambitious commitments needed" at the final week of the climate summit.more

You might expect the world’s biggest climate change conference to opt for eco-friendly menus, given the clamour to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the menu at COP26 in Glasgow is almost 60 per cent meat or dairy with dishes labelled as high-carbon at almost every food stand, a move which ‘beggars belief” according to climate and conservation campaigners.more

The 44-year-old, convicted of participation in an organized crime group and fraud, detained in July in Ireland, was brought to Poland, the Silesian police informed yesterday.more

Environmental activists yesterday evening awarded the ironic "Fossil of the Day" award to the Polish government for making a commitment to accelerate the abandonment of coal-fired energy, and then to withdraw from this promise.more

If all the new commitments announced during the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow are met, it will be possible to stop the rise in temperature on the Earth to 1.8 degrees Celsius, assessed the International Energy Agency (IEA).more

The UK and France remained locked in a bitter cross-Channel confrontation over fishing licences for French boats in English waters after a meeting between UK Brexit minister Lord David Frost and France’s Europe minister, Clément Beaune, in Paris on Thursday.more

A valid EU Digital COVID certificate is required for anyone - lawmaker or staff - who enters the Parliament’s premises in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg from November 3.more

London police arrested 34 Insulate Britain climate activists who blocked two streets leading to the British Parliament by sitting on the road or sticking to it. Most of the protesters have already been removed.more

The state of democracy in Poland and Hungary is constantly deteriorating, and the US should consider shifts in military dislocation or economic sanctions in response, the president of the German Marshall Fund analytical center Heather Conley said in a hearing on the situation in both countries.more

More than 40 countries, including Poland, have committed to abandon coal during the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, the UK government announced.more

The British trawler, which was detained by French authorities last Thursday over a dispute over fishing rights after Brexit, was released yesterday and left the port of Le Havre in the evening.more

Boris Johnson has been blasted for failing to wear a face mask while sat next to Sir David Attenborough. more

There are calls for Priti Patel to withdraw or justify claims she made before parliament that most people who travel to the UK in small boats are not genuine asylum seekers.more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said there is "a long way to go" in the fight to curb climate change - but he is "cautiously optimistic". Speaking at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, he said the doomsday clock "is still ticking", but "we've got a bomb disposal team on site".more

More than 40 countries agreed on a UK-proposed plan at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow to accelerate the development of affordable clean technologies around the world by 2030.more

An agreement concluded by over 110 countries to stop deforestation marks the end of the "great chainsaw massacre" of the world's forests, said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.more

Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi has pledged to look at lengthening the school day in England in a bid to help more pupils recover from the Covid crisis.more

Facebook's rebranding to Meta will not change the way the company is run if Mark Zuckerberg remains at its helm, said whistleblower and former Facebook manager Frances Haugen.more