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Britain’s bold new world … as a Pacific trading nation

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.

December 16, 2024 4:04 am CET
The unlikelihood of an Asian NATO
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
5 European cities taking on short-term rentals
Taming the Gig Economy

5 European cities taking on short-term rentals

November 28, 2024 4:00 am CET
China’s bid to join major trade bloc kicked into the long grass
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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.

November 26, 2024 2:15 pm CET

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.

November 25, 2024 4:00 am CET

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.

November 24, 2024 2:17 am CET

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.

November 23, 2024 12:20 pm CET

Britain revives Chinese ties after Trump victory

Could an awkward handshake in Rio signal a new era in the Sino-Anglo relationship?

November 21, 2024 9:00 pm CET

Trump shock waves ripple through fragmented G20

Expectations of progress on support for Ukraine remain low.

November 18, 2024 4:00 am CET

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.

November 18, 2024 4:00 am CET

Europe’s farmers should calm down about Mercosur

The EU’s trade deal with South America is small potatoes for agriculture.

November 17, 2024 5:19 pm CET

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.

November 14, 2024 1:54 pm CET

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.

November 10, 2024 11:35 am CET

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.

November 7, 2024 6:10 pm CET

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.

November 2, 2024 6:31 pm CET
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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.

October 29, 2024 6:56 pm CET

Putin bans 131 Aussies for ‘anti-Russian agenda’

Canberra has provided more than $1.3B in aid to Kyiv.

October 29, 2024 5:15 pm CET

Israel bans UNRWA: The world reacts

The U.K. is “gravely concerned,” said Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

October 29, 2024 12:51 pm CET

UK accuses Russian firms of stoking anti-Ukraine protests

U.K. says allies will join it in slapping sanctions on the Doppelganger network.

October 28, 2024 3:55 pm CET

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.

October 25, 2024 7:00 am CET

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.

October 23, 2024 4:00 am CET

King Charles III confronted by indigenous activists in Australia

The monarch heard a plea for ‘sovereignty’ after being heckled in Canberra’s Parliament House.

October 22, 2024 11:14 am CET

‘Not my king!’ King Charles III heckled by Australian senator

British monarchy ‘committed genocide against our people,’ said independent lawmaker Lidia Thorpe.

October 21, 2024 10:55 am CET

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. 

October 20, 2024 11:58 am CET

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.

October 18, 2024 3:54 pm CET

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.

October 17, 2024 11:08 pm CET

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.

October 17, 2024 5:53 pm CET
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