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Teresa Ribera to lead commissionersโ meeting in von der Leyenโs absence
The European Commission president has been recovering from pneumonia in Germany and has canceled all external engagements.
The method in Trumpโs Greenland madness
The climate skeptic is responding to the reality of the Arctic’s melting ice: more resource extraction, faster trade routes, new military bases.
Death of Jean-Marie Le Pen reignites succession tussle between Marine and her niece
Marion Marรฉchal, Jean-Marieโs grand-daughter, has positioned herself further to the right of her aunt Marine Le Pen, who has attempted to โde-demoniseโ the National RallyThe death of Jean-Marie Le Pen looked likely to reignite rivalries in his family o…
Musk or no Musk, Farage has a plan to capture Britain
The Reform UK leader has broken with Musk over a far-right activist. But it’s his plan to win big that’ll keep Keir Starmer up at night.
Teresa Ribera comes after VDL in the European Commissionโs line of succession
Question arose after Ursula von der Leyen contracted “severe pneumonia” last week.
Jimmy Carter: The last progressive evangelical
The former president embodied a strain of Christianity that emphasized caring for those on the margins โ but was eclipsed by the Religious Right.
Lessons from an unusual corporate succession plan
The Wallenbergs hope more openness can avoid pitfalls suffered by other family
Eurozone faces no 2010 wildfire, but a slow-burn decline
The firefighters who put out the blaze a decade ago argue that fears of a eurozone implosion are overblown โ but admit that that may not stop a slow and painful European economic demise.
Ten days in Syria that shook the Middle East
Was the astonishing implosion of Bashar Assadโs regime exclusively the result of its rottenness or did elements inside his government coordinate with rebels?
Keir Starmer plays fast and loose with public trust in UK budget
Wriggling on tax and public spending promises is a big risk for Britain’s new leader soon after coming to office.
The Wallenbergs start succession to sixth generation
The three cousins leading the $660bn Swedish business empire want more family members involved and, for the first time, women
EUโs weak or distracted governments make unity of purpose hard to achieve
Leaders can only spend limited political capital on Euro initiatives while weighed down by domestic troublesIt has become a wry joke in Brussels that the most stable country in the EU is Italy, once infamous for its succession of short-lived government…
5 things weโll miss as Britainโs hereditary peers face the chop
From quirky family ties to baffling by-elections, Britain’s soon-to-be-abolished aristocratic lawmakers have been a unique feature of the system.
Iran has a hit list of former Trump aides. The U.S. is scrambling to protect them.
Roughly a dozen national security aides from the Trump White House are feared to be Iranโs hit list. Itโs hard to protect them all.
Sex, grief and a crushed musical identity: Alma Mahler steps on to the operatic stage
Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriffโs work about a dizzyingly passionate woman to premiere in ViennaThere are big, messy lives that can be called operatic and then there was Alma Mahlerโs. After her first kiss with Gustav Klimt as a teenager and dreams…
Budget will be key to Barnierโs survival
The French prime minister understands the scale of the emergency heโs been confronted with โ and that it will determine the fate of his minority government.
Marine Le Pen is on trial. A guilty verdict could doom her presidential ambitions.
The French far-right wants to make the best out of a complication situation during a trial which could potentially bar Le Pen from running for president in 2027.
โWhat happens if we die?โ: Congress is wholly unprepared for a mass casualty event
Leaders of both parties have ignored pleas to prep.
Families with twins face at least ยฃ20,000 financial hit
Additional cost compared with having babies in succession puts UK among the worst countries to bring up twins
Chechnyaโs Kadyrov goes full Trump: โDoctors say I have the body of a young guyโ
Amid persistent rumors he’s sick, Chechen leader insists “my health is fine.”
Britainโs most powerful woman goes to war
Complaints are already mounting about the former civil servant turned Keir Starmer chief of staff Sue Gray.
Trump goes low as Harris gains ground
In a succession of crude social media posts, Trump called Harris โlow IQ,โ โdumbโ and lacking โmental capacity.โ
Willie Brown on Kamala Harris: โSheโll deport my assโ
At 90, Harrisโs mentor and former boyfriend is basking in her rise to power โ along with those of his many other proteges.
Three review โ Yugoslavian trilogy of tales tracks the horrors of the second world war
Aleksandar Petroviฤโs 1965 interlinked stories focus on the changes wrought in one young Yugoslavian by the brutality of the war and its aftermathSerbian film-maker Aleksandar Petroviฤ was a member of the former Yugoslaviaโs insurgent Black Wave cinema…
Faced with Vance, itโs time for Europe to grow up
His presence in the White House will supercharge a Trump administrationโs NATO skepticism and fuel its demand for Europe to take on more responsibility for its defense.
The Olympics have always been political
Efforts to keep politics out of sports will never be successful.
Israelโs ultra-Orthodox headache
The Haredim now find themselves the target of anger, not only from a broad swathe of the public but even from their traditional allies in the religious-right coalition.
Europe eyes Swedenโs conscription model to solve troop shortage
Germany, the Netherlands and others are looking at Swedenโs system which screens over 100,000 teenagers a year.
Defeated UK Tories suffer โvery public nervous breakdownโ
The Conservative Party leadership contest is effectively underway โ and it’s not pretty.
Keir Starmer says he wants a better Brexit trade deal
The new U.K. prime minister has paid his first visit Northern Irelandโs cross-community government in Belfast.
Marine Le Pen vs. Jordan Bardella: Franceโs next power struggle
A budding rivalry could tear apart the French far rightโs โwinning ticket.โ
Ukraine war briefing: Thousands of Ukrainian convicts join fight against Russian forces
More than 3,000 prisoners in Ukraine released on parole to boost military numbers; Hungaryโs pro-Russian PM, Viktor Orbรกn, expected to visit Kyiv. What we know on day 860See all our Ukraine war coverageUkraine is turning to its prisoner population to h…
Polish FM appears to link Bidenโs disastrous debate with decline of Roman empire
โItโs important to manage one’s ride into the sunset,” Radosลaw Sikorski said.
Bye Bye Tiberias review โ heartfelt memoir of Palestinian family reunion in Galilee
Hiam Abbass, AKA Marcia Roy from Succession, returns to the village she left 30 years ago to become an actor, with her daughter Lina Soualem behind the cameraHiam Abbass is the Franco-Palestinian actor who has been a consistent presence in internationa…