
Merz says he ‘deplores deeply’ UK’s decision to leave EU In his opening remarks during the press conference with Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz said that he deplored Brexit. He said: The United... Read more »

A coalition of environmental and heritage bodies has launched a billion-pound mission to bring nature into the heart of urban areas in the UK. The first phase of the Nature Towns and... Read more »

Whenever there’s talk of a crisis of democracy in Germany, leading politicians proudly point to the well-established independence of the “judges from Karlsruhe” — that is, the judges who sit on the... Read more »

Russia could be days or weeks away from surging into a heightened summer offensive, CNN says. Germany is ready to fund the purchase of two Patriot batteries for Ukraine. Ukrainian and German... Read more »

A man has been arrested in Glasgow for holding a paper sign allegedly supportive of the proscribed direct action group Palestine Action, the third arrest of its kind across the city in... Read more »

A Kildare man who survived a serious heart attack at the age of 46 and will lead a fundraising cycle to Kerry for the St James Hospital Foundation on August 9/10. Ger... Read more »

Company insolvencies in England and Wales fall Just in: the number of companies in England and Wales falling into insolvency dropped last month. The Insolvency Service has reported that there were 2,043... Read more »

What happened in Torre Pacheco Several days of unrest in the town of Torre Pacheco, near Murcia, have highlighted rising tensions over migration in Spain. Sixty-eight-year-old pensioner Domingo Tomas Martinez had said he was... Read more »

What odds on a public inquiry into the Afghan superinjunction? Gold-plated, judge-led, three years of fun and games, that is how British politics normally kicks an embarrassment into the long grass. And... Read more »

“My whole life has been a road to prison”, recalls Joseph Zissels, a Ukrainian public figure and human rights activist of Jewish origin. In the 1970s, he was an active participant in... Read more »