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Will Germany’s new government restore its role as a bold leader of the EU?
Germany has long been seen as the
– the biggest, richest and most consequential power. But in recent years Berlin has widely been regarded as missing in action in the EU, hobbled by internecine feuding in a coalition government that has causedflip-flops …
Stories from Cornwall brought to life in new Michael Morpurgo play
The stories about life in Cornwall have flowed in: the hairdresser who gives everyone the same style because it copes best with the elements; the teacher who took a snowball in a cool box to the Isles of Scilly: the cat who follows the same routine as a country singing …
Ukraine war briefing: US tussles with Kyiv over UN vote on third anniversary of invasion
The
US is pressuring Kyiv to ditch its draft UN resolution condemning Russia’s war
in the country, ahead of a vote on Monday to mark the conflict’s third anniversary, AP reports, citing an unnamed US official and European diplomat. The Trump administrationis urging countries to back its …
‘No more excuses’: Europe under pressure on defence spending three years after Russian invasion
A few days after Vladimir Putin sent Russia’s invading forces into Ukraine in February 2022, the EU’s then foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, asked his staff for an urgent military aid plan. They came up with €50m (£41.4m) to help Ukraine.
“And I said: ‘Are you crazy? We are talking …
New content kings: the independent creators changing the NRL’s media dynamic | John Davidson
Rugby league’s history in Australia has long been influenced and shaped by legacy media, that of newspapers, radio and television in Sydney and Brisbane. The engines of The Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald and The Courier Mail, along with Channel 9, 2GB and others have played key roles in covering …
UK ministers head to India in search of trade deal they hope will boost economy
Ministers are relaunching negotiations with India this week in an attempt to clinch a multibillion-pound free trade agreement that they hope will boost the UK’s flatlining economy.
Jonathan Reynolds, the business and trade secretary, flew to Delhi on Sunday to meet his Indian counterpart, Piyush Goyal, for the first time …
‘Now is the time of monsters’: young Berliners despair at far-right surge
For more than 150 years, the symbolism of the
Siegessäule
, or Victory Column, in Berlin’s Tiergarten, has shifted alongside German identity: from emblem of the empire to strategic relocation by the Nazis and, finally, its adoption as an icon of Berlin’s legendary love parade.On Sunday, as throngs of …
‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid
Each month Su Myat secretly crosses the border from Thailand into Myanmar to report on her conflict-ridden homeland, covering military airstrikes and illegal scam compounds that have become
a haven for organised, transnational crime
.The editor of the online news outlet ThanLwinKhet News, Su is part of …
Police release image of wetsuit in attempt to identify body found in Welsh reservoir
He was wearing a wetsuit when police found his body floating in a Welsh reservoir in October. No clothes or belongings were discovered on the shoreline, and no car or bicycle was found nearby, despite it being a seven-mile hike to the nearest bus stop.
A postmortem examination failed to …
Zelenskyy refuses Trump demand to give $500bn of Ukraine minerals to US
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is not willing to cave in to intense US pressure to sign a $500bn minerals deal and that he wants Donald Trump to be “on our side” in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Speaking at a press conference in Kyiv ahead of the …