Section: The United Kingdom
The big ideas of 2015
What ideas will shape Britain and the world in the coming year? © David Ryle We live in extraordinary times. This makes a nonsense of the term “developed world”—implying that the story, in the countries of the west, is all told. That notion is confounded by the scale of the change through which we are living, in politics, economics and...
Big ideas of 2015: friends in strange places
The rise of Islamic State has thrown foreign policy in the Middle East into turmoil Read the rest of our big ideas of 2015 The turmoil in the Middle East and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have done strange things to alliances, not least to the ones that gelled—sort of—after the collapse of the Soviet Union a quarter of a century ago. Hopes...
Big ideas of 2015: the year of two pivots
Russia is beginning to turn East, towards China Read the rest of our big ideas of 2015 2015 will be a year of two pivots. Russia is performing the first, turning east towards China, away from Europe. Sanctions imposed by the west after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the plunging oil price, have hit the Russian economy hard. In November,...
Ukrainian troops to continue observing truce: Kiev military
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian government forces will continue to observe a truce in the country’s east after a significant reduction in shelling by separatists on Tuesday’s “Day of Silence”, a Kiev military spokesman said on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Record Numbers Dying To Reach European Shores
The UN calls for more protection for those crossing seas to escape the conflicts in Libya, Ukraine, Syria and Iraq. …read more Source: Sky...
Airlines body calls for U.N. to regulate anti-aircraft weaponry
GENEVA (Reuters) – Global airlines body IATA has called on the UN to regulate anti-aircraft weaponry in a similar way to chemical weapons following the shooting down of a commercial airliner over Ukraine earlier this year. …read more Source:...
Russian PM Medvedev says sanctions harmful for both Russia and West
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that Western sanctions over Ukraine were harmful for the Russian economy, but that Western economies were also affected. …read more Source:...
Chechens loyal to Russia fight alongside east Ukraine rebels
OUTSIDE OF DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Chanting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest), dozens of armed men in camouflage uniforms from Russia’s republic of Chechnya train in snow in a camp in the rebel-held east Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukraine accuses rebels of violating ‘Day of Silence’; Russian gas flows resume
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military accused separatists of violating an agreed “Day of Silence” in the country’s embattled east on Tuesday, an initiative that was seen as an attempt to forge a durable ceasefire paving the way to a new round of peace talks. …read more Source:...
French reform bill a major test for a weakened Hollande
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Socialist government will propose on Wednesday a reform bill which is crucial for avoiding EU sanctions but risks being watered down by lawmakers angry with President Francois Hollande’s deregulation drive. …read more Source:...
