First, as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney argued at Davos, economic strength starts at home — and “home” means national capitals. Poland, Spain and the Netherlands are growing solidly, while Germany is stagnating, and France and Italy are continuing to underperform. What is seen as a European failure is actually a national one, as many […]
Continue ReadingBritain’s depleted center-right Tories have been more than happy to depose a figurehead when the going gets tough — but it hasn’t always helped. Theresa May replaced David Cameron as PM in 2016 — but lost the Conservatives’ majority after calling an ill-advised snap election the following year. Liz Truss took over from Boris Johnson […]
Continue ReadingFord’s electric car division is not getting up to speed.Image: keystone Ford closed the last quarter with a heavy loss of $11.1 billion. 02/11/2026, 03:5102/11/2026, 03:51 The decisive factors were the restructuring of the highly loss-making electric car business, a fire at an aluminum supplier and US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs. The loss does […]
Continue ReadingIt comes after the King said the Royal Family were “ready to support” police in their inquiries.
Continue ReadingColombia’s President Gustavo Petro.Image: keystone Just a few months before the presidential election in Colombia, incumbent Gustavo Petro spoke of renewed plans to attack him. 02/11/2026, 03:3802/11/2026, 03:38 There is unrest in Colombia a few months before the election. He will move in two days to avoid being killed, Petro said in a live-streamed meeting […]
Continue ReadingUS President Donald Trump has used Switzerland as an example of the logic behind his tariff policy. The country is only successful because of the USA. 02/11/2026, 03:3102/11/2026, 09:15 The prosperity of countries like Switzerland is based on the fact that the USA allows “them to exclude us,” he told US broadcaster Fox Business. When […]
Continue ReadingIn 2021, Malik, along with Laxmi Agarwal, another acid attack survivor, set up the Brave Souls Foundation – a non-profit that offers legal and economic aid to acid attack survivors. The foundation acts as a lifeline for those who have been shunned by society and their families and have nowhere to go for help.
Continue ReadingWhat can governments do when countries circumvent or flout the rules to export oil?
Continue ReadingGuthrie was born in Australia, but when she was a toddler her family moved to Tucson, Arizona, where she grew up for most of her childhood. She did not travel back to Australia until 2015, visiting with her mum Nancy and fulfilling her “lifelong dream to return”, she told the Daily Telegraph.
Continue ReadingThe release of the cache of new files in the US has revealed a host of new Jeffrey Epstein connections with politicians, royals and the ultra-rich right across Europe. In Oslo, the parliament has agreed to set up an independent commission to investigate the ties between the convicted sex offender and several prominent Norwegians, from […]
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