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Environment minister Murray Watt is returning from oceans conference where he pledged to curb the scourge of plastics and ratify a treaty to protect the high seas

The Women’s prize was founded in 1991 in bold riposte to the year’s all-male Booker prize shortlist. It’s funny to think how male-dominated the industry once was when you look at it now. There has been a real renaissance in literary fiction by women since then. Take last year’s Booker…

What does the United States even get out of having to babysit angry baby Israel?

A slew of commitments have been made at the UN Ocean Conference this week, with many governments using the opportunity to unveil new MPAs on the international stage.

Israel launched strikes on Iran on Friday, targeting its nuclear facilities, missile factories and killing the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and top nuclear scientists. The strikes came amid growing tension over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear programme and ahead of the sixth round of US-Iran nuclear talks on Sunday in…

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told Euronews that her country might be used as a launchpad to attack and invade the Baltic states, but the people of Belarus will not go to war against their neighbours.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has warned that Israel faces a ‘bitter and painful’ fate following the attack.

France has accused Iran of stoking international tensions after a UN atomic weapons watchdog said that the country was flouting deals over its development of nuclear power.

The UN conference on the two-state solution offers an historic opportunity for Britain: to stand against the continued erasure of my people, says Husam Zomlot, Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom