Opinion – The World Before and After Munich
As a new international system takes shape, influenced by emerging actors from the Global South, the distribution of global power is bound to continue to shift away from the Western core.
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Russian ‘menace’ prompts UK defense spending uplift to 2.5 percent GDP by 2027
Though he did not share how the new funding will be spent, the announcement comes just days before Starmer visits US President Donald Trump in Washington, and appears to be carefully timed to demonstrate the UK is leaning forward to meet Trump’s demand…
More than 20 Musk staffers resign over Doge’s ‘dismantling of public services’
Trump administration employees refuse to help billionaire slash size of federal government through mass firingsMore than 20 civil service employees resigned on Tuesday from Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), saying they…
Trump defends Musk as backlash to federal workers ultimatum grows
President intervenes amid first signs of internal dissension as government departments push backDonald Trump has stepped in to defend Elon Musk from a mounting backlash in his own administration after some cabinet members told US federal workers to ign…
US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: state department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applicationsThe US state department has ordered officials worldwide to deny visas to transgender athletes attempting to come to the US for sports competi…
‘Way, way, way underwater’: CNN data expert warns Trump he’s being sunk by team member
The relationship between President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk could soon sour if CNN’s data expert Harry Enten’s latest polls are taken seriously by the White House.Enten claimed Tuesday that, regardless of w…
Kremlin casts doubt on Trump claim Russia would accept European troops in Ukraine
Spokesperson reiterates position as sources say Putin is committed to Russian control of Ukraine’s political futureRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesThe Kremlin has appeared to reject Donald Trump’s claim that Vladimir Putin is open to European p…
Tracking Trump – everything that’s happened in the president’s first 100 days
Follow major developments of the second Trump administration’s first 100 days, brought up to date weeklyDonald Trump has completed an extraordinary return to power as the 47th president, vowing to impose his vision and re-altering the political and cul…
US officials have been absent from global climate forums during Trump 2.0
Exclusive: The ‘deeply troubling’ move comes amid concerns US ignoring international climate ramificationsUS officials have missed recent international climate forums sparking concerns about a potentially significant shift from Donald Trump’s first ter…
‘He believes he is the law’: anti-Maga conservatives view Trump as threat to constitution
Speakers at Principles First summit warned of peril Trump and allies posed, urging people ‘to be in the streets’Michael Fanone, the former police officer who defended the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, looked out at the attendees of the Principles First…