MPs urge Labour ministers to get on with trophy hunting ban

Labour pledged at the 2024 general election to outlaw bringing the parts of animals killed by hunters for sport, such as heads or horns, into the UK. But it has so far failed to bring a bill enacting the ban to…

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EU court rejects Poland’s bid to overturn 7 major climate laws

The judges also dismissed challenges to the bloc’s carbon border tax, energy efficiency rules and national emissions reduction targets. Six lawsuits were filed in July and August 2023, while PiS was in power. The seventh…

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Russia attacks Ukraine hours after Abu Dhabi peace talks end

While both sides agreed to prepare another major prisoner swap, other issues, including territory and Europe’s participation in future talks, reportedly caused heated debates at the negotiating table. A member of the…

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Burnham says climate consensus 'gone' but pledges 'new era of leadership'

Addressing other world leaders and delegates at the COP31 climate summit in Turkey, he said that despite this, the UK was ready to begin a "new era of British leadership" on the climate change issue. But environmental…

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Jack Peters: The Conservatives weren’t too liberal: we were too weak

But attributing these failures to liberalism is an irritating Americanism that stops us understanding exactly what happened. The Scottish Enlightenment gave Britain a liberal tradition rooted in empiricism, not utopian…

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Mississippi: Historic change has come at last

But something else really big has happened which deserves separate focus. While the party poppers were being swept up from the Democrat celebrations, officials in Mississippi were quietly and labouriously sifting through…

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China’s diaspora crackdown reaches deep into Europe, report finds

Policymakers raised numerous concerns at the event in The Hague earlier this month — about what they considered security threats of critical infrastructure, trade dependencies and potential risks from a future conflict…

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Australia signs up to EU’s Horizon Europe research program

Australia will join Pillar II of the program, which funds research into areas including advanced computing tech, critical minerals, health, climate and clean energy. From January, Australian organizations will be…

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Europäische Städte fordern ein EU-weites Verbot von Zigarettenfiltern

Die niederländische Regierung erklärt unterdessen, sie konzentriere sich im Rahmen der Überarbeitung der Richtlinie über Einwegkunststoffe auf Kunststoffe in Zigarettenfiltern. „Sollte sich dies als erfolglos erweisen…

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Crisis engulfs Dutch government ahead of crucial tax vote

Ahead of a debate and vote Thursday, the centrist D66 party, led by Prime Minister Rob Jetten, and the center-right Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) agreed with progressive opposition parties PRO and Volt to shift about…

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