Month: July 2020

More than 40 US congressmen have written to Theresa May pledging their "full support" in taking on Vladimir Putin over the Salisbury spy attack, The Telegraph can reveal.  The letter was hand-signed by US politicians from both political parties on Wednesday and addressed personally to the Prime Minister.  It accuses Russia of "dangerous and reckless acts" […]

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Emmanuel Macron launched an international drive to promote French as a “world language” on Tuesday, urging Francophone countries to resist the temptation to turn to English. “France today should be proud of being one country among others that learns, speaks and writes in French,” he told the  Académie Française, an august body of luminaries that […]

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France is to release two female bears into the Pyrenees, the first in a decade, placing the government on collision course with farmers who complain that the beasts pose a threat to their livestock. Sheep rearers have previously taken the law into their own hands, targeting the bears with various traps, including one containing honey […]

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