Politics

Europe exhales as U.S. president hits pause button on most severe tariff regime.

Russia and the United States are set to hold talks in Turkey on Thursday on normalising the work of their diplomatic missions after the war in Ukraine triggered the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War.

Russian drones attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Thursday, according to local officials who said one person was trapped in a destroyed house and drone fragments fell in two districts.

Spain will pursue closer trade ties with China in the interests of its citizens and of the EU, its agriculture minister Luis Planas said on Wednesday, rejecting a U.S. warning that moving closer to the Asian country would be “cutting your own throat”.

Feeling the heat on immigration, now even center-left Labour MPs want to close “legal loopholes” relating to the European Convention on Human Rights.

In a dramatic twist, President Trump announced an abrupt reversal of the tariff policy that had spooked the markets and threatened to upend world trade. While many trading partners have been given …

The president has long gone after policies that aim to conserve water in the bathroom.

Kyiv needs Western troops on the ground to deter any future Russian attack, but the U.S. is sitting this out.

Friedrich Merz’s new administration promises tax cuts, energy price reductions and a blitz of public-private investment funds.

Greece has the highest number of open investigations on its practices across the European Union.