International News

The European Commission has published proposals aimed at reducing vehicles’ carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2030. The move is designed to put further pressure on manufacturers […]

Ambassadors of European Union member states agreed on Wednesday to impose an arms embargo on Venezuela. They also said there would be a ban on any […]

Italy’s government has decided to ban big cruise ships from Venice’s Grand Canal. Activists warned the many ships in tourism season were a conservation risk that […]

France’s parliament has stripped Marine Le Pen of immunity from prosecution over a series of grisly images she published on Twitter in 2015. A cross-party committee […]

Germany’s top court has ruled that there must be the option of registering a gender that is neither male nor female on birth certificates. It would […]

Egypt’s highest appeals court has upheld a five-year prison sentence for the blogger and pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, his family says. They said the Court […]

An Australian senator has criticised “the rise of the radical right” after he was racially abused by a group of men at a pub in Melbourne. […]

Three people have been jailed in China after they were caught smuggling thousands of dead butterflies into the country, state media report. Authorities discovered a haul […]