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The International Association of Judges (UIM) has alerted the international community and the respective governments to the “terrible problem” of Afghan women judges, whose lives are in danger under the new Taliban regime in the country, the UIM president said...

More than 130,000 young people aged 12 to 15 were vaccinated against COVID-19 over the weekend, the vast majority concluding their vaccination, announced the task force that coordinates the process on Monday. The same source told Lusa that on Saturday and Sunday,...

The stabbing of five people – including a six-year-old – in the Italian coastal city of Rimini by a Somalian asylum seeker, has become the latest point of contention within the ruling coalition that supports the government of Mario Draghi....

The GB news channel, which has positioned itself as a conservative rival to the BBC and Sky News, suffered a major setback on Monday when its flagship presenter Andrew Neil resigned as chairman and lead presenter, just three months after...

Supporters of carbon removal technologies often confuse carbon capture and storage (CCS) with negative emissions. They also risk greenwashing industry claims of climate neutrality, and encourage massive investments in false climate 'solutions' that risk becoming stranded assets, writes Wijnand Stoefs.

The Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS), introduced at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, provides employers whose turnover has been significantly hit by the crisis with a weekly subsidy to allow them to continue to pay their staff. The decision...

As the French minister for Transports, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, announced on Monday, the French government will invest 170 million euros per year until 2024 in order to double the transport of goods by rail by the end of the decade. This...

Faced with historically low opinion polling figures, German conservatives led by chancellor hopeful Armin Laschet, were able to turn the tide and register a win in the municipal elections in Lower Saxony. The conservative CDU party had beat the poll-leading...

The ongoing political crisis in Bulgaria, which will have to hold its third parliamentary election in less than a year, leaves few chances that Sofia will lift its veto on the European integration of North Macedonia before the end of...

After eight years, Erna Solberg's tenure as prime minister ended last night: Norway made a left turn and a centre-left government will take over.

Turkey has refused to release jailed human rights defender Osman Kavala despite a ruling by the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights. "In the face of Turkey's persistent and flagrant defiance of its obligation to implement the Kavala judgment, the Committee of Ministers should trigger infringement proceedings against Turkey," said Aisling Reidy, senior legal adviser at Human Rights Watch, in a statement on Monday.

Germany's energy regulator on Monday (13 September) said it had four months to complete a certification of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline after receiving all necessary documents for an application for an operating licence from the pipeline company.

Donors have pledged more than $1.1 billion to help Afghanistan, where poverty and hunger have spiralled since the Islamist Taliban took power, and foreign aid has dried up, raising the spectre of a mass exodus.

Uber drivers in the Netherlands are entitled to the same employment benefits as taxi drivers, a court in Amsterdam has ruled, AP reported. The court argued the legal relationship between Uber and its drivers "conforms to all the characteristics of an employment contract". The Dutch workers' organisation that brought the case called the decision a major victory for Uber drivers.

People from the Western Balkans could create the next EU migration crisis, if Europe lets enlargement promises fail, the EU's enlargement commissioner, Olivér Várhelyi, said Monday. "We must keep our promises to the Western Balkans. For me, this is one of the most important lessons of the Afghan situation," he told Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet. The EU and Turkey also needed "a new kind of partnership," on migration, he said.

French president Emmanuel Macron's ex-bodyguard, Alexandre Benalla, arrived at a Paris court on Monday, for trial for allegedly assaulting two people during a 2018 protest while posing as a police officer, AFP reported. The incident caused deep embarrassment for Macron, who was forced to fire Benalla. The presidency also held off reporting the assault to authorities, and it came to light only after the daily Le Monde revealed it.

On Wednesday, the European Parliament is to adopt a report calling on the EU Commission to propose laws to better protect platform workers. The S&D want to ensure platform workers can be considered employees, with full social and worker's rights.

Pope Francis on Monday in Slovakia warned against too much focus on individual rights and culture wars at the expense of the common good. Francis reiterated the message he made during a stopover on Sunday in Hungary, on how nations should avoid a selfish, defensive mentality, as he recalled the region's communist past, according to Reuters. "Fraternity is necessary for the increasingly-pressing process of (European) integration," the pope said.

A report by the European Court of Auditors, the EU's Luxembourg-based watchdog, suggests the current, ineffective, EU agreements to return migrants may end up encouraging people to come.

The European Commission is planning to ask companies selling certain products in the EU, like palm oil or soya, to prove that they are not contributing to deforestation, a leaked document shows. Environmentalists, however, foresee loopholes in the regulation.