The US Supreme Court has partially reinstated President Trump’s controversial travel ban in a decision the White House is calling a victory for national security.
The Russian president enjoys approval ratings Western leaders can only dream of, even as they dismiss him as an isolationist and authoritarian leader. What is the secret of Putin’s appeal?
High-rise council tenants are being forced to move after the Grenfell Tower blaze exposed wider safety concerns.
Millions of Americans seem destined to lose their access to health care, under a new bill due to be voted on by the Senate next week. President Trump is, as he promised, undoing Obamacare, the health system put in place by his predecessor. Democrats say poorer Americans will pay the price with their lives, but…
What do EU citizens living in this country think about their future after Brexit? Will they feel welcome? How secure do they feel? Michael Crick has been finding out.
“Below our expectations.” “Particularly vague”. “Not a breakthrough.” Yes, it’s fair to say there was a less than ecstatic response from the other European leaders to Theresa May’s promise that three million EU citizens will be able to stay in the UK after Brexit. At the end of her first EU summit since she failed…
Gary Gibbon
The EU delegations, as ever rather well informed about UK politics, mutter that Theresa May can’t last for long and appears to be the prisoner of the Hard Brexit Right (as they would term it).
Palmyra, Nimrud, Hatra – to historians, archaeologists and tourists from a different era these are the names of some the gems that have blessed civilisation before ending up under the sledgehammer of Isis.
Gary Gibbon
Seeing the leaders arrive here at the European Council you’re struck by the buoyant mood.
The Home Office has been taken to court by a campaign group that accuses it of breaking the law by not allowing enough child refugees into the country. There are almost 100,000 unaccompanied children living in Europe and Britain has said it will allow in no more than 480. But a piece of legislation passed…
Former CIA analyst on North Korea, Sue Mi Terry, blames the North Korean regime for the death of Otto Warmbier.
President Trump has condemned North Korea for its “brutality” following the death of a young American student after being held in custody for 15 months. Otto Warmbier was already in a coma when he was returned to his parents in Cincinnati last week. His parents said he had been subjected to “awful torturous mistreatment”.
It was delayed by a week, but when it came it was significantly different in tone to Theresa May’s thoughts on Britain’s departure from the EU during the General Election. Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Mansion House speech suggested plans for a slower, softer Brexit than the Prime Minister appears to favour. His speech seemed to reflect…
Nine years on from the crash, Barclays Bank and four former top executives are charged with committing criminal fraud.
In Syria, tensions have once again escalated after American forces brought down a Syrian government jet near the contested city of Raqqa. Moscow, which backs the Assad regime, has retaliated by suspending an agreement with Washington, aimed at avoiding clashes and says it will in future regard US planes as potential targets.
