Trump versus trade: the global economic outlook for 2025 in five charts
Unpredictable change will sweep through America, while old problems, from war to inflation, are likely to afflict other countries The global economy is entering the...
Month : December 2024
At least 15 men in Gisèle Pelicot rape and assault trial appeal against convictions
Court found 51 men guilty including Dominique Pelicot, who was given a 20-year prison sentence At least 15 of the men found guilty of raping...
Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party
Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics The tech entrepreneur and close adviser to Donald Trump...
Russia-Ukraine war live: Moscow says Kyiv plot to kill high-ranking officer with music speaker bomb foiled
Claim from FSB comes two weeks after Ukrainian assassination of senior Russian general Igor Kirillov Ukraine said on Saturday it had struck a storage and...
Indonesia receives official request from France to transfer death row prisoner Serge Atlaoui
Minister says request regarding welder arrested in 2005 on drugs charges will be discussed in January amid spate of transfer of high-profile detainees Indonesia has...
Injured North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine has died, says South Korea
First of Kim Jong-un’s soldiers to be taken was detained in Kursk region of Russia, according to Ukrainian reports ‘I thought it was fake news’:...
Italian journalist arrested and held in solitary confinement in Iran
Il Foglio war correspondent Cecilia Sala taken in by police while reporting in Tehran, says Italy’s foreign ministry An Italian journalist has been arrested while...
‘Everyone is crazy about tennis’: Sinner’s success inspires Italy to pick up rackets
Italians are taking to the court with factors including the pandemic and broadcasting also said to be fuelling enthusiasm At the age of 47, diehard...
‘Why should I study Russian?’ Ukraine lobbies UK to introduce Ukrainian GCSE
About 34,000 Ukrainian children have fled to UK since Russian invasion – yet are unable to study their mother tongue Ukraine is lobbying the UK...
Painstaking work to conserve Ireland’s oldest paper documents begins
Delicate 650-year-old pages to be preserved are some of the island’s most important historical texts Work has begun to conserve and digitise one of the...
