The presidents of Ecuador, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Somalia will join many Western heads of state and government and other leaders at a conference this weekend aimed to plot out first steps toward peace in Ukraine – with Russia notably absent. More information with FRANCE 24 correspondent Gulliver Cragg.
Eight years ago on Sunday, we went to vote in the Brexit referendum. Let’s not forget that most of our rulers never wanted it in the first place. It only happened because of the campaigning of Nigel Farage and Ukip and the determination of a bunch of Tory MPs like Sir Bill Cash. It became the largest act of democracy, and indeed the largest vote for anything, in British history.
When Sir Keir Starmer walked onto the stage for last Thursday’s edition of Question Time, he was audibly booed.
“All right. There you have it,” said The Good Liars comedian Jason Selvig after the MAGA voter dropped the bombshell confession and then silently turned away.
Mona Mahmoudi’s parents were among the first members of Iran’s Baha’i religious minority to be executed under the Islamic Republic’s decades-long crackdown.
On D-Day, the anniversary of which we just commemorated, the Allies knew the location of the Nazi defences thanks to the French Resistance. Now, Ukrainian resistance groups are playing pivotal roles in similar, albeit smaller, operations, enabling the Ukrainian Armed Forces to halt and, in places, turn back the Russian war machine. Their D-Day, however, is yet to come.
The Labour leader said he knew Mr Johnson’s instinct under pressure would be to lie about Downing Street parties in the Commons
It has begun. While Europe has been obsessing over elections in France and Britain, and officials in Brussels are haggling in back rooms over who gets the top jobs in the EU, something far more important has been happening. A full-scale trade war has started with China.
Emmanuel Macron has driven his country to the brink of a “Frexit” moment, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator has said.
Nigel Farage’s analysis of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine could hardly be more wrong. He claims that Nato and EU expansion was provocative. In fact it was Western weakness and timidity that encouraged Putin’s aggression in 2022. Rather than making any attempt to oppose Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2014, or helping Ukraine to do so, Western governments called on Kyiv to take no action that might lead to escalation. In spirit, it was a foreshadowing of Joe Biden’s offer in February 2022 to
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Don’t blame me for telling the truth about Putin’s war in Ukraine. Facing up the facts about the mistakes of the past has to be the first step towards the peaceful future we all want to see.
The wife of a chief constable who was sacked for lying about his military service has revealed that she reported him after feeling “sickened” at the disrespect he had shown genuine veterans.
New poll shows the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum has been reversed.
Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War think tank called the use of the FAB-3000 bomb a "significant development" for Russia.
Karoline Leavitt claimed the former president is bringing one thing to the campaign trail.
“I could not believe what I was hearing. It was surreal," Ricardo Rosselló wrote of his 2017 exchange with Trump following Hurricane Maria.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gifted Kim the Aurus Senat car during his first to North Korea in 24 years.
Let me take you back, if you can bear it, to the Tory leadership election in the summer of 2022.
On the morning of the 1987 General Election, the Sun newspaper front page famously warned its readers that “If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain, please turn out the lights”.
Recent moves by Argentina to renew and expand its military capabilities, including aspirations to acquire amphibious assault ships and a deal to buy retired F-16 fighter jets from Denmark, have raised eyebrows. The Falklands War of 1982 remains a defining event in the histories of the United Kingdom and Argentina.
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