This article is part of our special report French presidential election: Where does Europe fit into all this?. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, presidential candidate of radical left party La France Insoumise, hopes to push member countries to break away from EU treaties…
The French Presidency of the Council of the European Union began on 1 January 20
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting to shore up his premiership on Wednesday (19 January) amid a revolt by his own lawmakers who are angry over a series of lockdown parties in Downing Street. Propelled into the top job…
Prominent Democrats are expressing rage at their party’s two filibuster holdouts, rather than at Republicans who are blocking their voting rights bill. Senators Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are the only two Democrats opposed…
Boiling temperatures inside the trucks, lack of fresh air and the build-up of urine and manure in the containers the animals are stacked in are commonplace (Photo: Compassion in World Farming) Every year more than three million live animals are…
Athletes travelling to next month’s Beijing Olympics were warned on Tuesday (18 January) about speaking up on human rights issues while in China for their own safety by speakers at a seminar hosted by Human Rights Watch. Rights groups have…
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Visitors can go to covidtests.gov and click through to a Postal Service web page where they can order four tests per household, free of charge. Visitors to covidtests.gov can click through to a Postal Service web page, where they can…
Democrats’ bid to force through a new bill intended to offset state voting restrictions appeared doomed to fall to a Republican filibuster. A voting rights demonstration at the Capitol on Tuesday. The reluctance of two senators to change the Senate’s filibuster…
A court filing by a defendant in a Capitol riot case said the Justice Department was looking for information about a possible “organized conspiracy” involving the former president. A new court filing said prosecutors had posed questions to a Jan.…