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- Trump's White House
Trump’s demolition of the US state
You measure a leader by his actions not by his heart. To judge from what Trump has done within a fortnight of winning the presidency, his path is destruction.
- Edward Luce
Chinese vessel spotted where Baltic Sea cables were severed
A Chinese-registered vessel on its way from the Russian port of Ust-Luga to Port Said in Egypt passed close to both the cables around the time each was cut.
- Richard Milne and Oliver Telling
This Month
- Updated
- Trump's White House
Trump taps China hawks in Beijing’s ‘nightmare come true’
The president-elect is set to choose Marco Rubio as his top US diplomat while Representative Mike Waltz is expected to be his new national security adviser.
- Updated
- Nancy Cook
- Opinion
- US Votes 2024
Trump’s stunning rebuff of his critics
Donald Trump’s return to the White House means the return of an unpredictable president with big plans to Make America Great Again – and fewer restraints on his power.
- Jennifer Hewett
October
Ukraine and Russia in talks about halting strikes on energy plants
An agreement would mark the most significant de-escalation of the war since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.
- Max Seddon, Christopher Miller and Andrew England
BRICS alliance takes on global payments system
The group of developing nations is attempting to challenge the SWIFT international payments messaging system by setting up its own sanctions-proof one.
- Jessica Sier
Xi Jinping tightens stranglehold on China’s academia
Scholars have been fired or ‘disappeared’ as Beijing clamps down on discussion of sensitive topics, including the economy.
- Joe Leahy, Sun Yu and Kana Inagaki
IMF, World Bank meetings clouded by wars, economy, US election
The elephant in the room will be the potential for an election victory by Donald Trump to upend the international economic system with massive new US tariffs.
- Updated
- David Lawder
Trump touts fossil fuel agenda in bid for cash from Texas oil donors
The Republican presidential candidate told donors the US “could not be in a worse position as far as energy security goes”.
- Myles McCormick
Leaders depart UN empty-handed, facing wider Middle East war
There was no expectation of major breakthroughs at the annual gathering of presidents, premiers and other leaders. There rarely is. But this year was especially grim.
- Edith Lederer and Jennifer Peltz
September
Austrian far right wins vote, but won’t form government
Despite the Freedom Party winning the most votes for the first time in a national election, its leader, Herbert Kickl, appears unlikely to play a role in the next cabinet.
- Marton Eder and Jonathan Tirone
- Analysis
- Monetary policy
Did central banks get the inflation crisis right?
Rate-cutting cycles in recent decades – such as in the early 2000s, or during the financial crisis of 2007 – have tended to be associated with steep economic downturns.
- Sam Fleming, Colby Smith and Olaf Storbeck
‘Free to assassinate Trump’: plot suspect’s message to Iran
The man arrested after apparently plotting to assassinate the former president, wrote a book in which he apologised to Iran for Trump cancelling a nuclear deal.
- Patricia Mazzei, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eduardo Medina and Glenn Thrush
NATO official backs long-range strikes on Russia despite risk of war expanding
“Every nation that is attacked has the right to defend itself. And that right doesn’t stop at the border of your own nation,” said the head of NATO’s military committee.
- Lolita Baldor
- Analysis
- Russia-Ukraine war
Why Kyiv wants to use Storm Shadow missiles in Russia
Kyiv wants to be able to use the long-range weapons to destroy the Russian air bases and bomber fleets that carry out attacks on its territory.
- Updated
- John Paul Rathbone
US accuses China of directly supporting Russia’s ‘war machine’
Kurt Campbell said China was supplying Moscow with items that were directly helping the Russian military as it prosecutes its war of aggression in Ukraine.
- Henry Foy, Polina Ivanova, Kathrin Hille and Demetri Sevastopulo
- Opinion
- US election
Kamala Harris hits Donald Trump where it hurts
Kamala Harris and the Democrats will expect a polling bump after she hit Donald Trump hard and he failed to land many blows. But will that be enough?
- Jennifer Hewett
Harris puts Trump on defensive in fiery presidential debate
The vice president appeared to get under the former president’s skin, prompting a visibly angry Trump to deliver a series of falsehood-filled retorts.
- Nandita Bose, Gram Slattery and Joseph Ax
Massive Ukrainian drone strike on Russia kills one and closes airports
Russia said it destroyed at least 20 drones over the Moscow region, which has a population of over 21 million, and 124 over eight other regions.
- Guy Faulconbridge
Harris under poll pressure ahead of crucial debate
The debate will subject Ms Harris, who has sat for only a single formal interview in the past six weeks, to a rare moment of sustained questioning.
- Michelle Price and Zeke Miller