The mother of the imprisoned British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has announced she has resumed a near-total hunger strike, stopping taking the 300-calorie supplements she had been consuming on her partial hunger strike for the past three months. […]
Mother of jailed British-Egyptian activist resumes full hunger strike | Foreign policy Read More »
British officials are dubious that Emmanuel Macron intends to press ahead with French recognition of a Palestinian state next month – the first by a G7 nation – which could also push back the UK government following suit. The French
Donald Trump’s social media post insisting Ukraine must immediately start peace talks with Russia has set back, and possibly jeopardised, Europe’s carefully laid plans to persuade the US to impose sanctions on Moscow for refusing the US president’s proposal for
In a week in which former allies in a redividing globe separately commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, the sense of a runaway descent towards a third world war draws ever closer. The implosion
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Jagtar Singh Johal, the British-Sikh human rights activist acused of terrorism has been acquitted on all charges in a case in Punjab, after a court rejected the allegations against him made by Indian authorities. Johal has been held in detention
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Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s most prominent reformist, has resigned from the government, saying he had been instructed to do so by an unnamed senior official. He implied the move was endorsed by the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, although he did
Iran’s vice-president and most prominent reformist resigns | Iran Read More »
Donald Trump’s decision to sanction the assassination of an elite Iranian commander triggered a chain of events that has revealed the country as a paper tiger and led to the overthrow of Basher al-Assad, the former UK security minister has
Israel has set out its case to the UN security council for a full assault on Houthi forces in Yemen, claiming the Iranian-backed group now represents a well-armed terrorist army that threatens not just the regional economy but the entire
Israel sets out case to UN security council for full assault on Yemen’s Houthis | Israel Read More »
“A revisionist state has arrived on the scene to contest the liberal international order, and it is not Russia or China, it is the United States. It is Trump in the Oval Office, the beating heart of the free world.
The US is seeking global support to give the UN clearer powers to interdict ships in the Red Sea heading for Houthi-controlled Yemen ports, as part of a concerted bid to weaken the Iranian-backed group, according to the US special
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