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Negotiators at the UN climate talks in Poland have finally reached agreement on new rules to cut harmful carbon emissions and tackle climate change.

Donald Trump and controversy had a habit of finding each other long before he became President – as the residents of Balmedie in Aberdeenshire well know.

In Paris, the dismal weather has done what President Macron had failed to do: dampen the ‘Yellow Vest’ protests against him.

A fourth victim has died following Tuesday’s gun attack on the Christmas market in Strasbourg. Under heavy security, the market re-opened today, with President Macron visiting in the evening. The alleged attacker, Cherif Chekatt, was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police last night.

The UN climate conference in Poland has been billed as the most important summit on global climate change since the 2015 Paris deal. It opened last week with dire warnings from the TV naturalist David Attenborough, who said a lack of action could lead to the collapse of civilisation. But, with just hours left before the…

Sierra Leone is facing a crisis of teenage pregnancies, caused in part by the Ebola outbreak two years ago.

President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen has used some of his precious free time to speak out against the President on US breakfast television Mr Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday; his delayed sentence is due to begin in March. He told the network ABC today that Mr Trump directed him to make…

Delegates from almost 200 countries are at the 24th annual climate change conference in Poland, trying to increase efforts to curb pollution and tackle climate change.

People living in the cluster of small migrant camps on the fringes of Calais are taking more and more risks to reach UK shores. This week, 14 migrants were rescued from 2 dinghies in the Channel. In the past two months more than 100 people, mostly Iranians, have attempted the treacherous crossing.

French police have arrested a fifth person they accuse of being part of the entourage of their chief suspect in the Strasbourg Christmas Market attack. More than 700 officers are still hunting for 29-year-old Cherif Chekkat – who remains on the run.

A contrite and crying Michael Cohen has been sentenced to three years in jail.

French police have said that the gunman who shot dead two people in an attack on a Christmas market shouted “God is great” as he opened fire. Twelve people were wounded in the attack in the crowded narrow streets of Strasbourg. The gunman, who is thought to be a 29-year-old local man who was radicalised in prison,…

Demonstrators set fire to cars and barricades in the middle of the Champs-Elysées, with police firing tear gas and water cannons in response. President Macron has refused to back down over the tax increases, insisting it’s part of his strategy to combat climate change.

His son George W. Bush described him as “a man of the highest character,” saying the entire family was deeply grateful for his life and love.

In the latest of our reports from Sri Lanka, where a constitutional crisis has pitted two rival politicians in a battle to be PM, one contender leans towards India, the other, China.