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Yvette Cooper, UK home secretary, during the Border Security Summit in London, UK, on Monday, March 31, 2025. The number of asylum seekers arriving in the UK has been increasing, and a further backlog built up when the previous government paused the processing of asylum claims while it worked on a plan — subsequently dropped by Labour — to send some to Rwanda. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

UK plans to end ‘failed experiment’ in immigration

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to cut migration after the recent success of Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration Reform UK party in local elections.

  • Andrew MacAskill

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Nigel Farage and Sarah Pochin of the Reform Party celebrate as the latter is declared the winner of the Runcorn and Helsby byelection.

‘We’ve had Labour for lunch’: Farage’s Reform UK party delivers political earthquake

Nigel Farage is no longer the clown lobbing bricks from outside the circus tent. He’s now got a foot inside — and he’s brought the cannon.

  • Rob Harris

Brexit for the US: Trump’s tariffs are the sign of a nation in decline

Trump is famously unpredictable, but his unifying theme is utterly consistent: the retrieval of national power. It is to make America great again.

  • Waleed Aly
President Donald Trump.

Trump’s antics leave Taiwan wondering if US is still in its corner

The US President was once seen as a strong supporter of Taiwan. Now he is accusing it of stealing from the US.

  • Lisa Visentin and Daniel Ceng
Police and emergency services stand near a damaged car that drove into demonstrators marching in Munich.

‘Probably an attack’: Children among injured as car drives into Munich crowd

The incident came hours before Munich was to host a conference of world leaders, and before Germany’s federal election.

  • Anja Guder and Wolfgang Rattay
The controversial ads displayed at a Tube station in London.

Controversial Tube ads spark outrage as right to die debate divides Britain

British MPs are to debate a bill which would legalise assisted dying for some terminally ill adults. A decade after a similar bill was overwhelmingly rejected, the result appears to be on a knife’s edge.

  • Rob Harris
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Germany’s then-chancellor Angela Merkel had to put up with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dog at a meeting at his residence in 2007. He knew she was afraid of dogs.

Dogs and long waits: Merkel recalls Putin’s ‘power games’

The former German chancellor’s memoirs are out. And she’s saying a lot more in public than she did in 16 years.

  • Geir Moulson
Simon Harris, Prime Minister of Ireland in Switzerland in June.

Russian honeytrap Brexit plot is ‘no surprise’, says Irish PM

The PM’s comments follow news that a member of the Irish parliament had been enlisted by Russian intelligence as an agent during the Brexit talks.

  • Michael Murphy
Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier appointed next French PM. (File picture).

Macron appoints ‘French Joe Biden’ as new PM to break political deadlock

Michel Barnier drove a hard bargain in Brexit negotiations, infuriating Brexiteers during a time of tense relations with the EU.

  • Rob Harris
Illustration: Dionne Gain

Energy policy is becoming Australia’s own Brexit, and proving just as intractable

If the Coalition isn’t making up the policy as it’s going along, then it’s doing a Vegas-level impression of a political outfit that is.

  • Shaun Carney

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