The Guardian Articles

Something is jarring when the foreign secretary, David Lammy, regards UK soft power as so important he

establishes a council

The …

• Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has warned that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is aiming to “manipulate” Donald Trump, after Putin praised the US leader and said he was ready for talks with him.

  “He wants to manipulate the desire of the president of the United States of America …

The Ontario premier, Doug Ford, has said an early election is needed in the Canadian province in order to fend off an income “attack” from Donald Trump as a trade war looms between the close allies.

But opposition parties criticized the move, calling it a “distraction” from an ongoing criminal …

A man has been arrested after environmental activists claimed responsibility for sabotage attacks on fibre optic cables outside major insurance companies.

The 29-year-old was arrested by City of London police after activists said they had cut the cables to insurance company offices in London, Leeds, Birmingham and Sheffield on Monday.

The drinks company Diageo is considering cashing in on booming demand for pints of Guinness by selling or listing the famous beer brand on the stock market, according to reports.

Selling or spinning off Guinness are among a number of options being considered by the FTSE 100 company as part …

Vladimir Putin has said he is ready to discuss the war in Ukraine with Donald Trump and suggested it would be a good idea for them to meet.

In his first comments since Trump issued threats to inflict economic damage on Russia if it failed to end the war in …

The UN’s development chief has urged UK ministers to have a public debate about reversing the “brutal” cuts to the country’s aid budget made by the Conservative government.

Achim Steiner, the administrator of the UN Development Programme, told the Guardian he found it “a little bit sobering” that Labour had …

In the bars, hotels and windowless conference halls of the World Economic Forum in Davos, two themes dominated the conversation: America’s ascendancy and Europe’s decline.

If the scale of the continent’s problems was unclear before politicians and chief executives descended on the Swiss ski resort, there was no ambiguity by …

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Bank of England

Before a crunch interest rate decision on 6 February, an influential business survey …

Google has agreed to do more to identify and remove fake reviews, including sanctioning rogue individuals and UK businesses that have manipulated their star ratings, the UK’s competition watchdog has said.

The tech company will also issue “warning” alerts on the profiles of businesses that use fake reviews to boost …