Oliver JJ Lane

If Ukraine wants a seat at the peace talks it should refresh the democratic mandate of its presidency by holding fresh elections, President Donald Trump suggested as he reacted to the first round of U.S.-Russia peace negotiations on Tuesday. U.S. […]

Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have met for talks on the future of the Ukraine war, but even before sitting down Russia made clear it was approaching things with a hard bargaining mindset. Images of U.S. Secretary

An attempt to wrestle back the narrative after days of anger on social media over Britain’s history of racist child rape gangs targeting predominantly white girls has seen a government spokesman hit back at Elon Musk as misinformed. The world’s

Despite nearly three years of war, Russian energy has continued to transit unimpeded through Ukrainian territory every day until now, with the taps being firmly closed on New Year’s Day. Zero Russian gas is flowing to European customers through Ukrainian

Multicultural Germany with its history of extreme New Year’s Eve violence including the harrowing Cologne mass sex attacks prepares for violence tonight with thousands of emergency service personnel deployed. European capitals including Paris and Berlin are deploying thousands of extra

South African-American billionaire Elon Musk promoted the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in unambiguous terms in a newspaper column, prompting the publication’s opinions editor to resign in protest. Germany has been failed by its legacy parties and is teetering on the

Investigation into how the Germany Christmas market attack was allowed to happen descends into bickering and finger-pointing, as newspaper reveals the car-sized gaps in security were known about weeks in advance. A representative of the Magdeburg city municipal company that

French President accused of turning storied medieval cathedral into vanity project as he pushes ahead with replacing historic stained glass windows that survived fire intact for his ‘contemporary gesture’. Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral was badly damaged in the April 2019 fire

A Russian-linked ‘dark fleet’ ship that is suspected of having cut an international power line and four internet backbone cables in the Baltic on Christmas Day may have been also moonlighting as a signals intelligence ship. Oil tanker the Eagle S,

Germany will elect a new government seven months early after the last collapsed in acrimony in November, the nation’s President confirmed in dissolving its Bundestag on Friday morning. It is time for liberal democracy’s “competition of ideas” to find “the best