‘Travelling under the starry sky across the Sahara Desert is hard to forget.
‘The feeling of your life depending solely on the train as you are hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest village.
‘The silence of the desert when the train stops and the deafening rumble of it when it starts moving. Eating a hot meal cooked by the shepherds on the train. Seeing hundreds of sheep and goats atop the carriages loaded with iron ore.’
These are just
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LONDON – This is the list of new laws Rishi Sunak hopes will save his skin come election-time.
Tuesday’s King’s Speech — in which King Charles III read out the British government’s legislative agenda for the crucial pre-election term ahead — was packed with promises from Sunak’s Conservative Party.
With the clock ticking down to an election which must be held before the end of January 2025, the King’s
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The year 2022 will go down in the history books. And it includes a chapter few wanted to see written: War returned to Europe.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his tanks rolling into Ukraine, marking the start of a brutal conflict that, 10 months later, shows no signs of ending anytime soon. The early weeks of the war saw a wave of refugees flood the EU
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LIVERPOOL, England — On the long picket line outside the gates of Liverpool’s Peel Port, rain-soaked dock workers warm themselves with cups of tea as they listen to 1980s pop.
Dozens of buses, cars and trucks honk in solidarity as they pass.
Dockers’ strikes are not new to Liverpool, nor is depravation. But this latest walk-out at Britain’s fourth-largest port is part of something much bigger, a great wave of public and private
LONDON — Liz Truss has not published her plan for government, but this is the closest thing to it.
Over nearly eight long weeks of hustings, interviews, articles and debates, the two contenders for the Tory leadership have made their respective cases for why they should succeed Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister. Among all the campaign jibes and blue-on-blue attacks have been scores of pledges and promises for how to deal with the urgent problems facing the country.
The
Der Chef der staatlichen litauischen Eisenbahn, Mantas Bartuska, stimmte am Dienstag (14 es vorerst.
Das Thema hat die öffentliche Meinung in dem baltischen Staat, einem der lautstärksten Kritiker Europas von Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Weißrussland, erschüttert und Premierministerin Ingrida Simonyte gezwungen, über einen Rücktritt nachzudenken, obwohl sie am Dienstag angekündigt hatte, in ihrem Amt zu bleiben.
Das Binnenland Weißrussland nutzt den litauischen Hafen Klaipeda, um Kali vom staatlichen Hersteller Belaruskali zu exportieren, einem der weltweit größten Produzenten des Pflanzennährstoffs, der Minsks wichtigster
One of the historically resonant things about riding the Bowes and the Tanfield railway paths close to Newcastle is the proximity of the family-friendly Beamish, the ‘Living Museum of the North’. This 350-acre open-air museum houses several significant steam locomotives that once toot-tooted along these former rail lines.
It’s a given that North East England led the railway revolution almost 200 years ago, but what’s less well known is that this was the second railway revolution.
North East England was
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BERLIN — When it comes to tackling climate change, Germany’s leading political parties aren’t exactly on the same page.
While all four main parties focus on measures to slash the country’s carbon emissions, there are stark differences in how they plan to do so in practice, according to a POLITICO analysis of the manifestos of the Christian Democrats, the Greens, the Social Democrats and the Free Democrats ahead of federal elections set for
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This is the first chapter in The Road to COP26 series.
Climate change isn’t just coming for Europe. It’s coming for the European Union.
Europe’s north will struggle with floods and fires, even with warming at the lowest end of expectations — the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5 or 2 degrees above the pre-industrial global average. But the south will be hammered by drought, urban heat and agricultural decline, driving a wedge
