The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the “utterly inadequate” state of Spain’s social protection system, according to a former UN poverty expert who is calling on the government to ensure its actions on basic rights “live up to the [...]

Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, who is running for re-election in the conservative, Catholic EU member, said on Saturday that he wanted the constitution to explicitly forbid the adoption of children by same-sex [...]

The US is to join with other major powers including China, India and the EU in formulating plans for a global green recovery from the coronavirus crisis, in the only major international summit on the climate emergency this [...]

Ireland’s next government will be formed on Saturday after the Green party voted resoundingly to enter a coalition with two larger [...]

The already tense situation in South-Asia further aggravated when India unilaterally revoked the autonomous status of the parts of Kashmir under its control and shut down its connections with the outside world on 5 August 2019. After the revocation of the special status of Jammu, the Valley of Kashmir and Ladakh, [...]

France will ban the controversial chokehold used to detain suspects after the death in custody of George Floyd in the US intensified anger at the conduct of French [...]

At the end of March, the Netherlands had 413,000 people on social assistance benefits. As a result, the number of people who used the safety net on a monthly basis increased by approximately one thousand. The applications for self-employed persons in particular increased. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics [...]

Senior officials have pledged that the European Union’s recovery plan will “do no harm” to the bloc’s landmark goals to tackle the climate crisis and threats to the natural [...]

The Bay of Bengal’s fiercest storm this century, super-cyclone Amphan, slammed into the coast of eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday afternoon, bringing heavy gales and the threat of deadly storm surges and [...]

The Norwegian State Investment Fund withdraws from companies that do not comply with the rules on coal mining. Companies that use coal are also blacklisted. One of the names is commodity trader Glencore, the state fund said on [...]