More than 140 countries, including Luxembourg, adopted a strategy to mobilise hundreds of billions of dollars a year to help reverse dramatic losses in biodiversity, though failed to decide on establishing a new global nature fund - a key demand of developing economies.

The Italian government has told judges at the European Union’s highest court that its transfers of migrants to asylum processing centers in Albania comply with EU and human rights laws.

“In Luxembourg, it’s not very common to have a career in sports,” says Van der Weken, who relishes the opportunity to be a role model. Last year she was voted sportswoman of the year in Luxembourg, a nation with a population of less than 680,000.

The two appealed the decision to a court in Rome, which asked the Luxembourg-based court to clarify EU law. In 2023, Italy signed a deal with Albania to house up to 3,000 male migrants while their ...