An argument in the White House tore apart the US alliance with Ukraine, shook European leaders and highlighted JD Vance's key role in forcefully expressing Donald Trump's foreign policy. The vice-president has come out punching on the global stage - so what is it that drives his worldview? Vance's first major foreign speech, at the Munich Security Conference in mid-February, caught many by surprise. Rather than focusing on the war raging in Ukraine, the US vice-president only

First official meeting of two governments since disastrous Trump-Zelenskyy encounter comes as Russia intensifies attacks Marco Rubio and Mohammed bin Salman in the Royal Palace grounds in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images There is “no military solution” to the conflict in Ukraine, US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said ahead of high-stakes meetings on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia  aimed at repairing a severely damaged relationship that has

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in Statuary Hall before President Trump's address to Congress on Tuesday. Photo: Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled "Catch and Revoke" effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups, senior State Department officials tell Axios. Why it matters: The effort — which includes AI-assisted rev

A plane carrying the former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has left Manila after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity over his deadly "war on drugs". He was taken into police custody shortly after his arrival at the capital's international airport from Hong Kong on Tuesday morning. Duterte, 79, contested his detention but within hours was on a chartered jet en route to The Hague in the Netherlands, whe

At least two people have died and 186 others are missing after four boats carrying migrants from Africa capsized overnight in waters off...

In the 2005 epic film, Kingdom of Heaven, the crusader Balian of Ibelin comes face to face with Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub at the entrance of Jerusalem and asks, “What is Jerusalem worth?” to which the charismatic leader answers “Nothing!” as he walks back toward his army before turning briefly and stating, “Everything!” Jerusalem is worth nothing and everything. Impossible to quantify, impossible to put a price on – an intricate and ever-changing tableau marked by the many

The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced sanctions against 13 Myanmar senior government officials and 3...

Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too. Mahmoud Khalil outside the gates of Columbia University’s campus on April 30, 2024. Photo by USA TODAY Network via Getty Images On Saturday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers detained Mahmoud Khalil – a recent Columbia University graduate who helped lead the Gaza solidarity encampment – at his New York City home, an apartment building owned by the school,

Displaced Palestinians live in a school run by UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, west of Gaza City, Sunday, March 9,...

The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care. Image via MapChart In recent years, U.S. politicians have selectively framed European healthcare policies to justify restrictions on transgender care, seizing on a handful of conservative policies to claim that “Europe is pulling back.” The most extreme example, the United Kingd