The Guardian Articles

Europe has been braced since the US presidential election in November for the challenge posed by Donald Trump’s return, but the threat to European stability has come earlier and appears far more serious than predicted, even by the pessimists.

Trump has already revived his territorial aspirations for Greenland,

Labour MPs have urged Rachel Reeves to demand Jimmy Lai’s release when she becomes the first UK chancellor to make an official visit to China in nearly a decade.

Nine Labour MPs have joined a cross-party call for Reeves to raise the detention of political prisoners in Hong Kong and …

Ukraine’s highest profile combat unit is seeking English-speaking recruits at a time when the

impending presidency of Donald Trump

Azov, a volunteer brigade whose decade-old nationalist origins have made it a target of Russian …

A dozen Reform UK councillors have given notice of their intention to resign en masse in protest at Nigel Farage’s leadership.

The resignations could come as early as Friday evening and will add to pressure on the Reform leader after Elon Musk said he was “not up to the job”. …

Mark Rylance, the star of the BBC’s Wolf Hall, has joined the singer Charlotte Church and actor Juliet Stevenson to condemn a decision by the police to ban a pro-Palestine protest outside the corporation’s Broadcasting House headquarters.

Protesters were planning to gather in Portland Place in central London on Saturday …

The family of Leicester City’s former owner, who was killed in a helicopter crash outside the club’s stadium in 2018, have launched a lawsuit against the company which made the aircraft.

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha’s family are suing the Italian aerospace and defence company Leonardo SpA for £2.15bn – the largest fatal …

Concerns over the UK government’s borrowing costs were revived on Friday after stronger-than expected US jobs figures triggered volatile conditions in global financial markets.

In an accelerating global bond market sell-off, investors warned that the UK was particularly exposed amid growing fears over stubbornly high inflation and higher for longer …

Venezuela’s authoritarian president,

Nicolás Maduro

“This is a great victory for Venezuelan democracy,” the 62-year-old autocrat boasted during a sparsely attended oath-taking …

Rachel Reeves intended to spend January burnishing her reputation on the global stage with

trips to Beijing and Davos

Instead, the chancellor was reduced to watching anxiously, as a sell-off swept …

The Conservatives have been accused of “bottling” the local elections after 13 Tory-led county councils in England said they were asking for a delay to this May’s polls to allow them to take part in a structural shake-up.

The Tory councils have agreed they will ask to be part of …