The European Commission has strongly criticized a new Israeli law that would make the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of lethal terrorist attacks. "The death penalty bill in Israel is very concerning to us in the EU," a commission spokesman said on Tuesday.
Civil society joins protests as EU voices express ‘great concern’ about Israel’s law targeting Palestinian prisoners.
Italy's fertility rate fell to a new low of 1.14 children per woman in 2025 -- one of the lowest levels in the world, official data released on Tuesday showed.Fertility rates in the EU as a whole fell from 1.57 children per woman in 2010 to 1.34 in 2024.
Sources told The Jerusalem Post that the decision was a result of France taking a hostile attitude toward Israel over the last two years. Israel has halted selling defense products to France, three senior Israeli sources confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
The German government on Tuesday expressed "great concern" over the Israeli parliament's decision to introduce the death penalty for convicted terrorists. "Understandably, Israel has taken a hard line against terrorism since October 7," said government spokesman Stefan Kornelius in Berlin.
A wolf has bitten a human in Germany for the first time since the species returned to the country, authorities said on Tuesday. The incident on Monday saw a woman injured near an IKEA store in the northern city of Hamburg.
China bans 'bone ash apartments' where mourners are storing cremated remains instead of cemeteries.
Israel's parliament approved a law setting the death penalty as the default punishment for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks.
Police in Bali confirm Lyons, 45, has been handed over to Spain's Guardia Civil and will be flown to Malaga on Wednesday.
European Union top diplomat Kaja Kallas and several of the bloc's foreign ministers have taken part in events to commemorate Russia's massacre in the Ukrainian town of Bucha four years ago. "Bucha has come to symbolize the cruelty of Russia’s war," Kallas said on Tuesday.