France wants the European Union to adopt a resolution preventing teenagers from using social media before they turn 15, Politico reported. The French government intends to use the Polish presidency of the EU Council to do so.more
Britain is imposing the biggest sanctions package against Russia's shadow fleet, targeting 30 vessels, foreign minister David Lammy said on Monday, urging G7 allies to stand with, and equip Ukraine for as long as it needs.more
MPs are being urged to back plans to make the UK the first country to eradicate smoking, as new figures suggest tobacco will result in almost 300,000 Britons getting cancer within the next five years.more
The European Commission announced that it has closed an antitrust investigation into Apple that has been ongoing for more than four years over the anti-competitive rules the company applies to developers of e-book and audiobook applications.more
Austria has agreed to allow Bulgaria and Romania to join the Schengen area fully in an agreement reached with the countries in Budapest on Friday. Sofia and Bucharest are hoping for a quick lifting of land border controls with neighbouring EU countries. A final decision could be made on 12 December.more
"Hooligans who wreak havoc on local communities" could face up to two years in jail under the plans to tackle anti-social behaviour, the government has said. more
The Spanish government has introduced new regulations that will shorten and simplify procedures to regularize the status of some 900,000 illegal immigrants in the country over the next three years.more
The number of hotels being used to house asylum seekers has risen by seven since the general election, the government has disclosed.
Home Office minister Dame Angela Eagle told MPs that 220 hotels were now in use, with 14 opened and seven closed since the July poll.more
After 10 years of serving his sentence, Anders Breivik has applied for early release. In an opinion presented at Wednesday's court hearing, experts concluded that he still posed a threat to society.more
There are over 5,000 fewer prisoners in Polish jails and prisons than a year ago. They are more likely to be released before their sentences are over - writes "Rzeczpospolita" in today's issue.more
The UK today imposed sanctions on 10 representatives of Russian government and state-linked youth organisations involved in the deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children.more
Companies are to be forced to make it “simple and straightforward” for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions or get their money back under new rules to stamp out the so-called subscription traps that are costing Britons £1.6bn a year.more
As reported by the Polish Border Guard, two passengers started a row on board a plane flying from Edinburgh to Gdańsk on 15 November. Right after the plane landed at Lech Wałęsa Airport, officers from the Special Intervention Team of the local Border Guard had to intervene.more
Zombie knives and machetes are still available to buy online, some for under £20, more than a month after they were banned in England and Wales.
BBC News was able to purchase four knives from online retailers with UK websites, two of which were shipped from overseas.more
The consumer rights group believes the tech giant has broken competition law by ‘trapping’ people with Apple devices into using its iCloud service.more
Controls will be reintroduced at the Netherlands' land borders on 9 December and will remain in place for six months, the immigration and asylum ministry said yesterday. This is part of the anti-immigration campaign of the government coalition led by Geert Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV), Reuters estimated.more
Former British Armed Forces soldier Daniel Khalife, who has been charged with terrorism and spying for Iran, pleaded guilty yesterday to escaping from prison where he was awaiting trial. This occurred in September 2023 and Khalife was caught after a three-day manhunt.more
Top pub and restaurant bosses have warned the chancellor that tax rises in last month's Budget will "unquestionably" cause closures and job losses. In a letter, more than 200 signatories have said the hospitality industry is disproportionately impacted by an "unsustainable" hike in the amount employers pay in National Insurance contributions (NICs).more
The European Commission has informed Chinese platform Temu that an EU investigation has uncovered practices on the site that violate EU consumer law, such as fake discounts and false product reviews. Temu has a month to inform the Commission how it intends to remedy the irregularities.more
A court found that conspiracy theorist Richard Hall had harassed a father and daughter seriously injured in the Manchester terrorist attack and sentenced him to pay £45,000. Hall claimed that there was no bombing, the authorities had carried out a hoax and the harassment of the victims was a journalistic investigation.more
Australia's government says it will introduce "world-leading" legislation to ban children under 16 from social media. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the proposed laws, to be tabled in parliament next week, were aimed at mitigating the "harm" social media was inflicting on Australian children.more
The deputy prime minister has suggested she wants to stop new council homes in England from being sold under the Right to Buy scheme. Angela Rayner told the BBC the government would put restrictions on new social homes in England “so that we aren’t losing that stock”.more
Inspections carried out by companies employing employees remotely have shown that they are unable to implement it properly, the Rzeczpospolita daily reported.more
New figures show a 50% rise in the number of police officers sacked and barred from returning to work in England and Wales. Nearly 600 officers were dismissed from the service in the 12 months before March this year, up from almost 400 the previous year, according to the College of Policing.more
