Could a new populist movement help save American democracy?

The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.

United States forces intercepted and destroyed eight Ecuadorian fishing vessels between August 28 and September 16, 2026, detaining over 140 of 160 crew members and abusing some.

Civil society organizations and independent media outlets join together to condemn the escalating crackdown on independent Egyptian investigative journalism platform Matsadaash.

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Alun Smith It’s not nearly enough, Mr Burnham. Oh, sure, it was a positive-sounding speech with broad, colourful, emotional notes, designed to pique the interest of the ‘left-leaning’, Guardian-readin...

It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.

This is the seventeenth edition of UK in a Changing Europe’s regulatory divergence tracker, outlining how UK and EU rules and regulations have aligned and diverged in the period April-September 2026.

Today, the Commission is proposing a 5-point plan to prevent, anticipate and respond to sudden, mass illegal arrivals. It will strengthen the resilience and security of EU external borders

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

The EU\'s growing network of trade agreements helps European businesses to access new export markets and creates a more predictable trade and investment environment, according to a report published to...

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

The trial of 11 Greenpeace activists began today in Valencia with Spain’s Public Prosecutor seeking one of the harshest punishments ever in Europe for peaceful environmental protest.

Javier Torres, a photojournalist with AFP, recently visited the Atacama Desert in Chile, capturing images of a desert in bloom after a spell of unusually wet weather.

Lawyer tells review hearing that families wish to know whether weaponry involved in the deaths was made in UK Israeli and UK military commanders could be requested to give evidence to an inquest concerning three British workers killed in Gaza when aid vehicles they were travelling in were hit by an airstrike. It is also possible that the inquest into the deaths of John Chapman, 57, Jim Henderson, 33, and James Kirby, 47, may examine whether the weaponry that killed the men was made in the UK. Continue reading...

Thank you for granting me the honour of addressing you all at the beginning of this decisive session.

Gwent Police said he was arrested on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviour.

Spain recorded more than 3.5 million foreign workers up to August, a labour force that grew by 12% more than the national average on a year-on-year basis and accounts for 15.9% of total employment

Heatwaves and drought make planting native trees and maintaining the existing canopy more and more difficult.

Reform UK party chair Lee Anderson claimed there are “thousands of square miles” of solar panels on farmland in the UK. This is a huge overstatement.