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• Nordic and Baltic countries on Monday pledged to increase military aid to Ukraine, including training and weapons, as their leaders visited Kyiv.

  They pledged to provide additional support for Ukraine, including equipping and training a “scalable brigade-sized unit” and investing in Ukraine’s defence industry. A brigade was 3,000 …

It was a delicate balancing act for the man once considered Europe’s “Trump whisperer”.

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, was seated in the Oval Office gently

trying to factcheck Donald Trump

The creative industries are fighting back against UK government proposals to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission.

The latest protest is a silent album co-written by more than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, and follows a statement signed by 48,000 creatives including Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus in which …

Police will be able to search properties without a warrant for stolen phones or other electronically geotagged items under the government’s crime and policing bill.

The measure is among dozens in the bill, which will be put before parliament on Tuesday and would mostly apply to England and Wales. It …

The cost of the global energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will reach £3,000 for the average British household by the summer, after another expected increase in bills in April.

The average annual bill in Great Britain under the latest energy price cap is forecast to be about …

Prominent British Muslims in politics, media, business and sport have come together to influence government policy on behalf of 4 million British Muslims.

The minister for faith Wajid Khan, the Tory MP and deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani, the former Conservative party chair Sayeeda Warsi, the broadcaster Mishal Husain, the ex-England …

Beeban Kidron, the film director who is campaigning against government plans to overhaul copyright rules for AI companies, has become the latest high-profile figure to complain about the role being played by the prime minister’s AI tsar, Matt Clifford.

Lady Kidron, an award-winning film director whose work includes Bridget Jones: …

Donald Trump has changed the global conversation around Ukraine “for the better”, Downing Street has said, as the UK imposed further sanctions on Russia to force Vladimir Putin to make concessions.

As world leaders marked the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said the US …

German voters yearning for a steady hand in troubled times handed a clear victory to the conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz in Sunday’s watershed election, punishing the centre-left-led alliance of Olaf Scholz.

But a closer look at the results of the snap election, triggered when Scholz’s government collapsed in acrimony …

Friedrich Merz marked his conservative alliance’s victory in Germany’s election by urging Europe to make itself more independent from the US – a project that will be music to the ears of Emmanuel Macron but may turn on whether Merz can build a Bundestag majority to lift the so-called debt …