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Britain’s bold new world … as a Pacific trading nation
With global free-traders on the back foot amid Donald Trump’s return, the U.K. is placing its bets on the tongue-twisting CPTPP.
Do Syria’s liberators still deserve the terrorist label?
Will Donald Trump kill US-UK-Aussie sub defense deal?
Liberals should not quit Elon Musk’s X, leading US lawmaker says
China’s bid to join major trade bloc kicked into the long grass
France doubles down on age minimum of 15 for social media use
Paris renews push for EU-wide uptake of its “digital majority” at 15.
Climate conferences are dying. How to save the world now?
This year’s U.N. climate change summit wore its contradictions and failings on its sleeve, prompting existential anxiety.
What the ‘show me the money’ climate summit tells us about the new Trump era
Big-money pledges will be even harder to trust. Fossil fuel producers have more leverage. China is ascendant.
A testy meeting, a $300B take-it-or-leave-it climate offer — and a day of drama
“We feel as though we are left with nothing,” a representative of endangered island nations said after countries such as the U.S., China, U.K. and Australia worked overnight to try to break the stalemate.
Britain revives Chinese ties after Trump victory
Could an awkward handshake in Rio signal a new era in the Sino-Anglo relationship?
Trump shock waves ripple through fragmented G20
Expectations of progress on support for Ukraine remain low.
As Trump looms large, can Keir Starmer save the world?
Center-left governments across the West are turning to the U.K. PM to provide leadership following Donald Trump’s reelection.
Europe’s farmers should calm down about Mercosur
The EU’s trade deal with South America is small potatoes for agriculture.
UK won’t weaken food standards to land a Trump trade deal, minister says
Farming minister’s comments come amid fears U.K. could face mounting pressure from a Trump administration in order to skirt tariffs.
Amsterdam football violence forces Dutch prime minister to skip COP29
PM Dick Schoof says “major social impact” of last week’s clashes will keep him from climate summit in Azerbaijan.
Europe’s leaders congratulated Trump. But here’s what they said about him before.
“Divisive.” “Sociopath.” “False and dangerous.” Europe’s leaders haven’t been shy about criticizing Trump in the past.
COP16 fizzles out as rich countries block global nature fund
The outcome left African and Latin American nations furious and prompted some to refuse to engage on other biodiversity issues.
Gaza horrors still ‘not enough’ for world to act, UNRWA says
The U.N. agency — which Israel partially banned on Monday — says over 70 percent of Gaza’s population relies on its services to eat.
Putin bans 131 Aussies for ‘anti-Russian agenda’
Canberra has provided more than $1.3B in aid to Kyiv.
Israel bans UNRWA: The world reacts
The U.K. is “gravely concerned,” said Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
UK accuses Russian firms of stoking anti-Ukraine protests
U.K. says allies will join it in slapping sanctions on the Doppelganger network.
King Charles and Keir Starmer, Britain’s newest diplomatic double act
Two men, worlds apart, are flying the flag in Samoa. But there’s more to connect the monarch and new UK PM than meets the eye.
The end of the British Empire
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and King Charles III head to the Commonwealth summit to talk climate change and growth. Not all their friends will be there.
King Charles III confronted by indigenous activists in Australia
The monarch heard a plea for ‘sovereignty’ after being heckled in Canberra’s Parliament House.
‘Not my king!’ King Charles III heckled by Australian senator
British monarchy ‘committed genocide against our people,’ said independent lawmaker Lidia Thorpe.
US reportedly probing leak of classified documents on Israel’s attack plans
The documents, marked top secret, describe satellite images of Israeli preparations for a potential strike on Iran, according to media reports.
Trump allies rage at UK Labour help for Kamala Harris. There’s more to come.
Some U.S. progressives see Britain’s Keir Starmer as a lone center-left warrior if Donald Trump wins.
If you think Trump’s migration policies are extreme, look at the EU’s
As anti-immigrant sentiment surges in Europe, under-threat leaders are embracing formerly taboo approaches to their borders.
CRINK: It’s the new ‘Axis of Evil’
An informal alliance of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea is forcing NATO to tighten links with Indo-Pacific countries.
The unlikelihood of an Asian NATO