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The European Commission called on Wednesday for Romanian, Bulgarian and Croatian citizens to be able to travel freely without passports across Europe, which would expand the so-called Schengen area with no border checks to 29 countries.

UN Special Representative Abdoulaye Bathily has warned against prolonging the interim period in Libya, saying it could become even more vulnerable to instability, as well as risk of partition. He urged on Tuesday Libyan politicians to hold the elections “as soon as possible,” telling the Security Council that the UN…

Council has made a $120,000 bid to bolster Redhead Beach against future severe storms like those that devastated the Hunter's coastline earlier this year.

51 tenants owe more than €27,000 each

Drivers are set to be hit with a major toll increase, but the rise has been delayed by a few months in an attempt to help people struggling with rising fuel bills this winter

Aled Powell, from Wrexham in Wales, has denied his two daughters swimming lessons for the past three years despite their pleas to learn because they cannot be taught in Welsh

Aled Powell has been waiting three years for swimming lessons in Welsh

Councillors also discussed a full traffic ban on Parliament Street

The President of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), Rashad al-Alimi, warned that the Houthi terrorist attacks on oil export ports and vital economic structures would undermine peace efforts, stressing that the legitimate government reserves the right to respond to these attacks. Alimi and council member Faraj al-Bahssani met with…

The Labour-run council says it needs expertise it does not have in-house

East Lothian Council planners said that even though the couple own the land at the side of their house it had been designated as 'open space' and building on it breached planning rules ordering them to take the summerhouse and fence down