Rishi Sunak has arrived in Berlin where he is set to meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for talks on Wednesday. The topics of the meeting at the Chancellery will include mutual relations, the Russian war against Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East. It comes as Rishi Sunak met in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday with Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to discuss security. .
French President Emmanuel Macron said France could send troops if requested by Ukraine in response to a Russian breakthrough.
KEVIN Bridges had fans in stitches with his take on the chaos caused by Humza Yousaf booting the Greens out of government.
Missiles from North Korea, drones from Iran, and a massive amount of technical assistance from China. Russian President Vladimir Putin may complain about the backing Ukraine is receiving from its Nato allies, but it is doubtful that Russia would be able to maintain its military offensive without the help it is getting from its motley collection of autocratic friends.
In the context of a sprawling global leviathan that has just posted profits of $7.7bn (£6.1bn) in the last three months alone, Shell’s decision to close a small power generation unit in China amounts to little more than a rounding error on its books.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the question of sending Western troops to Ukraine would "legitimately" arise if Russia broke through Ukrainian front lines and Kyiv made such a request, in an interview with The Economist published Thursday.Macron said that "if Russia decided to go further, we will in any case all have to ask ourselves this question" about sending troops, describing his refusal to rule out such a move as a "strategic wake-up call for my counterparts".
A couple of years ago, I noted in passing on Twitter (as it then was) that there was an international border between the UK and Ireland on the island of Ireland. To my surprise, Irish nationalists piled in to deny this objective legal reality. I couldn’t help recalling George Orwell’s comment that, for nationalists, “a known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside … or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact.”
Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty ImagesDonald Trump can dish it out, but he has shown, once again, that he simply cannot take it.As proceedings began Thursday morning in the disgraced ex-president’s criminal hush-money trial, defense attorney Todd Blanche complained to New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan that the gag order put in place to prevent Trump from intimidating witnesses, jurors, and court staff was unfair to his client.“Everybody can say anything they want, except for President Tru
The Conservatives won council by-elections in Hillingdon and Wandsworth, while Labour’s vote share dropped
The Queens-born former president made a notable error while honoring "New York's Bravest."
The former president made the chilling remark about the 2024 election to a Wisconsin newspaper.
Londoners will now have to wait until Saturday when they are due to find out who their new mayor is
The latest Ukrainian deep-strike weapon isn’t a drone, a cruise missile or a ballistic missile. It’s a balloon.
Doug Mills/GettyDonald Trump tried—and failed—to lure the judge overseeing his New York criminal trial into the position of greenlighting his angry screeds to ensure they don’t violate a gag order that seeks to stop him from continuing to intimidate witnesses and jurors.The move came after Trump got slapped with $9,000 in fines and a warning of a potential stay in the slammer on Tuesday, then had to fend off the risk of an additional $4,000 in penalties Thursday morning.After a trial lunch break
Washington sanctions nearly 300 companies and individuals from China, Russia, Singapore, UAE and other countries
Joseph Stiglitz was applauded for calling out Bim Afolami on BBC Question Time.
The former president's niece described a "split screen" effect that she believes could be damaging to the case against her uncle.
Elite dinner co-hosted by entrepreneur David Sacks at his home in the Hollywood Hills
No love lost between the one-time double act, then.
Germany on Friday accused Russian military agents of hacking the top echelons of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party and other sensitive government and industrial targets, and was joined by NATO and fellow European countries in warning that Russia’s cyberespionage would have consequences. Relations between Russia and Germany were already tense, with Germany providing military support to Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Russian military cyber operators were behind the hacking of emails of the Social Democrats, the leading party in the governing coalition.
Iran is willing to "expend every Arab life" in its efforts to end Western influence in the Middle East and destroy Israel, a former US national security adviser has said. HR McMaster, who held the position between 2017 and 2018 during the Trump presidency, told Sky News that there is still a risk of escalation between Iran and Israel after the two nations carried out attacks on each other in April. Iran said its attack on Saturday 13 April was a retaliation after two of its generals were killed in a strike in Syria's capital, Damascus, which Tehran blames on Israel.
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