With pressure mounting from an internal investigation, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer met on Monday in the Oval Office with President Trump and Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, to tell them she planned to step down. Mr. Trump told her that was a good idea, a person with knowledge of the exchange said….
The former top official at the Foreign Office has fronted a parliamentary committee, telling MPs that No 10 had a “dismissive approach” to Lord Peter Mandelson’s security vetting. Sir Olly Robbins said there was an “atmosphere of pressure” and a “very strong expectation” from No 10 that Mandelson should be “in post and in America”…
He is likely to set out to the Foreign Affairs Committee the context in which his initial decision was taken – that Lord Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador had already been publicly announced and his interpretation of the law, the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act, 2010, was that he was not authorised to share the conclusions…
Sir Keir Starmer addressed MPs in the Commons about Peter Mandelson’s vetting for his job as US ambassador. The prime minister said officials made a “deliberate decision” not to tell him that Mandelson had failed security vetting for the job. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch accused the PM of throwing “his staff and officials under…
More than a dozen American warships are patrolling the waters around the Strait of Hormuz to enforce a blockade of Iranian ports, aided by American fighter jets and surveillance aircraft. The goal is to force Iran to cave in to American demands by depriving the government in Tehran of its biggest single source of revenue…
President Trump’s decision to blockade all Iranian shipments out of or into the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday morning sets up the next great test in the Iran war: Which side can endure more economic pain, Tehran’s new leadership or Mr. Trump himself? Almost everything about how this new turn in the war plays out…
Over recent months, a subtle yet profound shift has taken place in the way Morocco is treated within parts of the Arab world. There has been no formal diplomatic rupture, no openly hostile declaration, yet a series of persistent signals has emerged: a colder media tone, growing ambiguity surrounding Western Sahara, increased visibility granted to…
Russia has recently sharpened its tone over the escalating tensions surrounding Iran, through a clear warning delivered by its foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov. Speaking in early February 2026, Lavrov stated that Moscow would not remain idle in the face of a rapidly deteriorating situation around Iran, warning that continued escalation could trigger a much broader…
