The captain of a ship stranded in the Strait of Hormuz has told the BBC what it is like to be caught up in the power struggle between the US and Iran for the strategically important Strait of Hormuz. Captain Raman Kapoor says he and his crew contend with “mental not material pressure” as their…
Voters in the home counties will “regret it for a long time” if they do not back the Liberal Democrats and wake up to a Reform-led council, Ed Davey has said. The Lib Dems leader has identified five councils – East Surrey, West Surrey, Hampshire, West Sussex and Huntingdonshire – where his party could win…
President Trump sent letters to Congress on Friday making the case that a Vietnam-era law requiring him to seek congressional authorization to continue military operations in Iran did not apply because the conflict was in a cease-fire. In the letters — sent to House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa,…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Estonia’s domestic intelligence agency has one piece of advice for European peers unsure about how to handle saboteurs hired by Russia: prosecute them as publicly as possible. Officials at the Kaitsepolitseiamet (Kapo), Estonia’s internal security…
Canada’s former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore Thursday that international financial institutions were “spectacularly ill-adjusted” to respond to modern-day issues. “You can look to different places around the world to realize that those institutions, whether it was the WTO or the IMF or what have you, aren’t necessarily fit…
Pope Leo XIV told inmates at one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious prisons on Wednesday that they are not alone, as he delivered a message of hope during a visit that drew attention to prison conditions, human rights abuses and injustices that campaigners have denounced for years here. Leo’s visit to the prison in the Central African…
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei has told the BBC that a decision has still not yet been made for an Iranian delegation to travel to Islamabad for a new round of talks with the United States. Baghaei expressed concern regarding the US’s naval blockade of its ports and the seizure of an Iranian vessel…
Shorouk Express Following the relaxation of Ukrainian exit rules over the summer, the number of young Ukrainian men aged 18 to 22 entering Germany rose from 19 per week in mid-August to between 1,400 and 1,800 per week in October, according to German media reports citing the German interior ministry. Markus Söder, Bavaria’s conservative premier and an…
Shorouk Express Sign up to our free Brexit newsletter for our analysis of the continuing impact of Brexit on the UK Sign up to our free newsletter for the latest analysis on Brexit’s impact Sign up to our free newsletter for the latest analysis on Brexit’s impact Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has told Sir…
Shorouk Express Work on security guarantees for Ukraine accelerated after a gathering of European leaders at the White House in August. But EU governments have yet to nail down what those could look like — and the extent of U.S. involvement. Zelenskyy said the best security guarantee is a “strong” Ukrainian army, backed by allies’ funding…
