Inside Starmer’s plan to woo Trump with a defense spending surprise The U.K. prime minister heads to Washington on Wednesday having put his money where his mouth is on boosting the military budget. Will it be enough to keep the president on side?  Feb 26 8 mins read Nigel Farage is surging in Britain’s rust

A new search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is underway — in the latest, and perhaps last, attempt to find the plane that mysteriously vanished 11 years ago. Maritime company Ocean Infinity has relaunched its sea-sweeping search for the lost airliner, picking up where the company left off in 2018, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke

Reuters The news came as Israelis gathered to watch the funeral procession of hostages Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, whose bodies were returned last week Israel and Hamas say the bodies of four Israeli hostages held in Gaza will be returned on Wednesday night, after mediators resolved the latest ceasefire dispute. Israel is set to

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President Trump directed federal agencies on Wednesday to implement a 30-day freeze on the use of government-issued credit cards as part of his latest executive order.  The order implements the Department of Government Efficiency’s “Cost Efficiency Initiative,” which aims to ensure that “government spending is transparent and government employees are accountable to the American public.”

Chris Mason Reporting from Travelling with the prime minister Alice Thompson Senior political producer EPA Sir Keir Starmer has reiterated his call for a US security guarantee in Ukraine to deter Vladimir Putin from invading again, as he prepares to meet Donald Trump. Speaking on the plane to Washington DC, Sir Keir said he hopes

After a dramatic week that saw both the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine and an unprecedented flurry of diplomatic activity, it’s becoming possible to see what a real — if far from ideal — agreement to end the bloody conflict might look like. But to know whether an agreement is actually achievable or

Guy Delauney Balkans correspondent A one-year prison sentence and a six-year ban on holding public office might seem like a heavy penalty for a politician. But the Bosnian-Serb leader Milorad Dodik made light of the verdict at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The president of the country’s majority-Serb Republika Srpska region told supporters at

Power has been restored to most of Chile’s 19 million people after the country’s most disruptive blackout in 15 years, the government said, as authorities lifted a strict curfew imposed when the outage left 98% of the population without electricity. Chilean interior minister Carolina Tohá said on Wednesday that electricity had largely returned to Chile’s