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
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
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II called on world leaders attending the United Nations COP26 climate conference in Glasgow to "rise above the politics of the moment and achieve the true qualities of statesmen" for the benefit of future generations.more
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he was postponing planned trade sanctions on Britain so that negotiators from both sides could work on new proposals to defuse their dispute over post-Brexit fishing rights.more
On Monday, a traffic jam of private jets formed at Glasgow airport that brought world leaders and business leaders to the COP26 climate summit, the Daily Mail reports. He adds that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is among those who have chosen this CO2-emitting mode of transport.more
Southwest Airlines has said it will conduct an internal investigation into an incident where the pilot allegedly used a phrase to insult president Joe Biden. The pilot signed off an inflight announcement with the phrase “let’s go, Brandon” on Friday morning. The phrase has been used in Republican circles to target the president recently.more
The world is at "one minute to midnight", having run down the clock on waiting to combat climate change, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. He was speaking as world leaders arrived for the landmark COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow.more
The UK foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has warned France it has 48 hours to back down on threats made in the row over fishing licences or the UK will begin dispute talks set out in the Brexit deal.more
