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Despite massive global and domestic pushback, US President Donald Trump has imposed broad tariffs on steel and aluminum. Last-minute modifications can’t cloak the president’s dangerous protectionist stance. Just days after announcing his plan to impose tariffs...

Germany’s new foreign minister seldom minces words. As justice minister he tangled with far-right groups and internet giants. And despite political defeats, he’s found a way to make a comeback. “For me it is all about...

Donald Trump has accepted an invitation from the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, to hold an unprecedented summit meeting to discuss the future of the embattled regime’s nuclear and missile programme. In a stunning development following months...

From Syria to Yemen and the US, the UN human rights body has delivered a scathing annual report on violations and threats to rights around the globe. Syria and Myanmar have some of the worst conditions....

Eight people have been found guilty of numerous crimes including deliberate attacks on refugee shelters in Germany. After a yearlong trial, the legal points hinged on the very nature of the group’s structure and intent. The...

The TV anchor was rattling off Italy’s general election results in the early hours of Monday morning and Zak could not fall asleep. He had been restless and sick with worry for weeks, ever since a...

The EU has dismissed Theresa May’s vision for a post-Brexit trade relationship, laying out instead the offer of a deal that it concedes will be economically damaging to both the UK and the rest of Europe. Unveiling...

Congratulations to Ben Bradley, Conservative MP for Mansfield, who, in little over a week, has managed to clock up more retweets – 55,000 – than all of the Tory party’s tweets in 2018 combined. Unfortunately for Bradley,...

Donald Trump’s fortune has fallen for the second year running, according to Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of the world’s wealthiest people. The magazine on Tuesday saidTrump’s net worth had fallen by $400m (£287m) to $3.1bn over...

The second person found unconscious in Salisbury alongside the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is his 33-year-old daughter. Yulia Skripal was discovered on a bench next to her father on Sunday and is in a critical...