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In connection with the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow starting in two days, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke this morning with the head of the Polish government, Mateusz Morawiecki, Johnson's office reported.more

Government formation talks in the Netherlands have become the longest on record, 226 days after the 17 March elections delivered a fractured political landscape that made parties more reluctant than ever to compromise.more

There will be no announced strike by Scottish Rail during the UN COP26 climate summit which begins on Sunday. ScotRail lines and the RMT union announced last night that a pay agreement had been reached.more

Britain can breathe a massive sigh of relief as those £6 beers we’ve had to get used to have become fractionally cheaper thanks to Rishi Sunak. more

An internal report conducted by Facebook suggested that the site had a negative impact on political polarisation in Poland, contributing to a "social civil war" waged online and providing an incentive to reinforce divisions, the Washington Post wrote yesterday.more

President Andrzej Duda continues to be the country’s most trusted politician, ahead of the prime minister and the leader of the grassroots movement Poland 2050, a new poll has found.more

Yesterday at a ceremony at Rideau Hall, the residence of Canada's Governor General Mary May Simon, Canada's new government was sworn in. Justin Trudeau is the prime minister of the government for the third time. Among the new ministers there is a person with a Polish name: Helena Jaczek.more

In the European Union, opposition is unacceptable, so Poland is forced by the European Commission to return to ranks, as it was before with other smaller countries, but there are no such threats against Germany - "The Daily Telegraph" reports today.more

Some people behaving as if the Covid pandemic is over by ignoring Wales' face mask laws and not social distancing is worrying health chiefs.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring forward by 10 years Russia's target for achieving net zero carbon emissions, Johnson's office said on Monday after the two leaders spoke by phone.more

British Brexit minister David Frost said on Monday that the European Union's proposals to solve the problem of trade involving Northern Ireland did not go far enough and significant gaps remained between the two sides.more

The European Union is behaving more and more like an imperial power, an example of which is its dispute with Poland and the way it wants to force it to comply - says Andrew Tettenborn in the online magazine "Spiked", prof. law from Swansea University.more

Is former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi thinking about the presidency? - the Italian press wonders. The 85-year-old leader of the Forza Italia party, now an MEP, says he can continue to serve the country. His candidacy by the entire center-right is one of the possible scenarios.more

Poland’s prime minister has accused the EU of making demands of Warsaw with a “gun to our head”, urging Brussels to withdraw threats of legal and financial sanctions if it wanted to resolve the country’s rule of law crisis.more

The husband of the detained British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is beginning a hunger strike in Whitehall, demanding the government do more to secure her release.more

Declassification of new documents on the murder of former US president John F. Kennedy will be postponed for a year, announced US President Joe Biden.more

The actual trial of Ali Harbie Ali, who is accused of murdering British MP David Amess, will begin on March 7 next year, the central criminal court in London decided yesterday.more

Former US President Donald Trump's new social network, dubbed TRUTH Social and launched on Wednesday in an initial test version for "invited guests only", was hacked after a few hours, US Newsweek reported yesterday.more

Boris Johnson joined politicians from both sides of the border at a service to mark the centenary of Northern Ireland's formation. The prime minister arrived at St Patrick's Church of Ireland cathedral in Armagh on Thursday for the cross-community Service of Reflection and Hope, which was organised by church leaders.more

Britain is in talks with Ukraine over the sale of its arms, which would be the first such deal between the two countries, The Times reported today.more

British police on Thursday charged a 25-year-old Londoner of Somali heritage with stabbing a lawmaker to death in a church, a case that has raised fears about the safety of elected politicians.more

Ali Harbi Ali, 25, a British citizen of Somali origin, was formally charged today with the murder of David Amess MP, as well as preparing acts of terrorism. The accused will appear before a court in London later this afternoon.more

The UK has agreed a free trade deal with New Zealand which it says will benefit consumers and businesses. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the deal will cut costs for exporters and open up New Zealand's job market to UK professionals.more

The British government yesterday published the "Zero Net Strategy", a plan detailing how the UK aims to fulfill its announced commitment to become a country with zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.more

Hundreds of judges have announced that they will ignore the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal of Julia Przyłębska. The list of those who do not want to adjudicate with the nominees of the new National Council of the Judiciary already has over 250 names, reports "Rzeczpospolita".more