Section: The United Kingdom
Family of killed businessman hit out at his ‘Black Widow’
Barry Pring, 47, was celebrating his first wedding anniversary with his internet bride when he was killed by a speeding car in Kiev in February 2008. …read more Source: Daily...
Britain’s new foreign policy is putting the country on collision course with powerful enemies
Downing Street is betting a great deal on being able to win over Donald Trump. One of the more fact-retardant memes in Westminster is that Theresa May is cautious or indecisive. That George Osborne and Michael Gove are not in the Cabinet but are part-timing at BlackRock and the Times respectively ought to be all the evidence you need of that....
Theresa May’s Philadelphia speech sets British foreign policy in new directions
May’s speech has big repercussions for British foreign policy, and not just towards the United States. Theresa May gave a remarkable speech last night that was far more complex and nuanced than the pre-briefed extracts suggest. It also contained a few major shifts in British foreign policy that have not been fully discussed, some of which...
Putin-Trump phone call expected on Saturday – Kremlin
MOSCOW/BERLIN (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to speak by telephone this Saturday, the Kremlin said, a first step towards what Trump has billed as a normalization of relations after three years of tensions sparked by the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
BREAKING: Donald Trump & Angela Merkel to have phone call over US sanctions against Russia
DONALD TRUMP will telephone German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday for their first conversation since the new US president took to the White House. …read more Source:...
Theresa May’s speech to Congressional Republicans
This is the full text of the speech delivered by British Prime Minister Theresa May to the Republican Party ‘Congress of Tomorrow’ conference in Philadelphia on January 26, 2017 There’s an interesting balancing act in this speech, so I’ve uploaded it here in case it should be 404’d and for ease of reference later....
The civil service doesn’t have the skills to negotiate Brexit
©NICHOLAS KRAUSE/NEWZULU/PA Images : Brexit—the biggest challenge the civil service has ever faced? In her speech last week, Prime Minister Theresa May set out the broad outline for Brexit negotiations and one day soon the starting gun will be fired. The course that we are on concerns me because I believe that the civil service does not currently...
Family of millionaire businessman ‘murdered’ by Ukrainian internet bride won’t rest until she ‘rots in jail’
Barry Pring was ‘unlawfully killed’ after Ganna Ziuzina ‘tricked’ him into standing on the edge of a dual carriageway where he was hit and killed …read more Source:...
Ukraine demands say in any Russia-U.S. talks to end conflict on its territory
BERLIN (Reuters) – Ukraine must have a say in any deal struck between Russia and the United States aimed at ending violence in eastern Ukraine, its deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Vandals paint Nazi graffiti at Polish graves in Ukraine
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