Catherine Hardy

World News

Was the Salisbury spy toxin from the UK?

That is the claim from Russia's Ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov.

18 March 2018

World News

Skripal: the UK will respond "appropriately"

UK Finance Minister Philip Hammond says Britain will respond "appropriately" if a foreign state is found to have been involved in the suspected poisoning of a former Russian spy.

11 March 2018

Libya

Hundreds of migrants rescued off Libya

Rescue ships and Libya's coastguard picked up several hundred migrants on Saturday. Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted three migrant boats off Zawiya, just west of the capital, Tripoli.

11 March 2018

World News

Butterflies flutter by in San Diego

US zoo opens its annual "Butterfly Jungle" attraction aimed at fun and awareness.

10 March 2018

Australia

Australia floods declared a catastrophe

Torrential rain, floods and storms in north Queensland have been declared a catastrophe by the Insurance Council of Australia. On Friday, the Government declared a disaster situation after towns were cut off, residents evacuated from their homes and more than 200 dwellings were flooded.

10 March 2018

Syria

Afrin: dozens of fighters killed in Turkish air strike

Dozens of fighters killed in a Turkish air strike in Afrin

3 March 2018

World News

Bayer-Monsanto merger plan protests

Campaigners say the proposed Bayer-Monsanto EU deal will create a large conglomerate with too much market share

3 March 2018

World News

EU considers register for aid workers

As part of a review of relationships with development and humanitarian NGOs, Brussels is considering a register system for aid workers.

3 March 2018

Syria

Syrian Army advances in eastern Ghouta

The Syrian Army advances in eastern Ghouta as international calls to respect the UN-agreed ceasefire continue

3 March 2018

World News

Classes resume in Parkland, Florida

Students and teachers have gone back to their lessions at the Margery Stoneman Douglas High School, two weeks after 17 people died in a shooting rampage.

28 February 2018

United Kingdom

"She had such a big heart"

A 74-year-old woman has died in hospital, seven months after being rescued from her flat during the Grenfell Tower blaze in London.

28 February 2018

Europe News

Brexit: UK needs to "pick up the pace" of talks

The EU's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has called on London to "pick up the pace" of talks if it wants a deal this year on a draft treaty unveiled in Brussels on Wednesday.

28 February 2018

World News

The "Beast from the East" blankets Europe

Snow falls across the continent

27 February 2018

World News

Slovak PM offers €1m cash reward in appeal over journalist's murder

Slovakia's PM Robert Fico posed next to bundles of cash during a press conference that was broadcast live on Facebook on Tuesday.

27 February 2018

United Kingdom

"Arming teachers will not save lives" - Dunblane campaigner

The father of a five-year-old girl who died in the UK's school shooting in Scotland in 1996 warns Donald Trump's suggestion to arm teachers in the wake of the Florida shooting will not save lives.

25 February 2018

Russia

Nemtsov march draws thousands to Moscow

According to White Counter, an NGO that counts participants at rallies, around 7,600 people took part in the Moscow march for Boris Nemtsov, for which organisers had been granted permission by the city authorities.

25 February 2018

World News

Operation Sanctuary: UK told to change its laws on sex exploitation

18 people were jailed for sexually abusing young women they had groomed in the northern English city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The author of a review into the police operation says exploitation is not being recognised in adults - and it should be.

23 February 2018

World News

Nigeria rescues some of its missing schoolgirls

Nigeria rescues some of the missing schoolgirls who are said to have been kidnapped in a raid by Boko Haram in Yobe province earlier in the week.

22 February 2018

Syria

Ghouta: 'We are waiting for our turn to die'

Residents in the besieged eastern Ghouta district near the Syrian capital Damascus are enduring one of the most intense bombardments of the near eight-year conflict

21 February 2018

World News

Theresa May's post-Brexit guarantee

The UK Prime Minister says she wants all EU citizens lawfully living in Britain to remain after Brexit in 2019. Theresa May is also promising a streamlined system for them to register to be able to stay.

21 February 2018