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Europe may have to double its aid for Ukraine under Trump, diplomats fear
European military aid to Ukraine may eventually need to be doubled if Donald Trump cuts off US funding, European diplomats fear, but Ukraine is confident with already announced US aid this year that it has the military and budgetary support to keep fighting through 2025.
The former EU foreign affairs …
‘He has come out an old man’: joy and grief as loved ones released from Assad prisons
Moammar Ali has been searching for his older brother for 39 years.
In 1986, Syrian soldiers arrested the university student Ali Hassan al-Ali, then 18, at a checkpoint in north Lebanon. Moammar has not heard from him since.
He spent the next three decades visiting different security branches in Syria, …
‘We can’t give up on 1 million children’: the charity bringing psychological first aid to Gazans
In Gaza, where despair is everywhere, hope is the vital currency offered to children and their families by Dr Yasser Abu Jamei, the psychiatrist in charge of running Gaza’s biggest mental health charity.
“Without hope, we cannot pass anything on to those families, to those children,” says Abu Jamei, who …
‘I feel I’ve upset a few people over the years’: actor Brian Cox on overrated co-stars, charmless politicians and the joy of smoking weed
As I leave the office, my editor wishes me luck. “Hope he’s not too grumpy!” she says. A moment later, the deputy editor asks where I’m off to. To see Brian Cox, the actor, I say. “Oh!” she says, with a rather-you-than-me look. “Hope he’s not too grumpy!”
Cox has …
Atkinson hat-trick sparks England with series win over New Zealand in sight
It was still 10.13pm on Friday evening in Barbados and while the fish fryers were doubtless cooking up a storm at Oistins, 8,600 miles away in Wellington, 3.13pm local time on Saturday, their boy, now England’s bat, was doing something similar.
Jacob Bethell, zero professional centuries to his name, was …
From Rumours to Rosé: a complete guide to the week’s entertainment in the UK
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Starring Cate Blanchett as Hilda Ortmann, the German chancellor, and Charles Dance as Edison Wolcott, the US president, plus a host of other acting talent as the rest of the G7, this black comedy sees a bunch of world leaders lost in the woods during …
‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
The safety of tap water in the UK could be at risk because water companies are unable to use products to clean it, industry insiders have said, as all the laboratories that test and certify the chemicals have shut down.
People in the industry have called it a “Brexit problem” …
Agency that brought heavily indebted Indonesian workers to UK loses licence
A British recruitment agency that brought Indonesian farmworkers to the UK owing debts of thousands of pounds to foreign brokers has had its licence revoked by the labour exploitation watchdog.
AG Recruitment was once the largest supplier of international labour to British agriculture, bringing more than 1,450 Indonesians to pick …
Revealed: the business dealings of Royal Mail bidder Daniel Křetínský
On a cool June day in 2016, as Britain reeled from the outcome of the Brexit vote, a private jet soared into the skies from RAF Northolt, charting a course for Moscow.
Onboard the 37-seater Embraer ERJ was the billionaire Daniel Křetínský, nicknamed the “Czech Sphinx” because of his low …
Money, lawyers or boosting Farage on X: how Elon Musk could affect UK politics
Elon Musk appears to have many obsessions. The world’s richest man is evangelical about electric vehicles, space travel and Donald Trump. Another of his interests may yet have profound consequences for the UK: British politics.
The billionaire is reported to be thinking of becoming the biggest donor in history with …