Polish President Karol Nawrocki has appointed a council to rewrite Poland's constitution, sparking tensions with the EU and the centrist Tusk government. The move follows months of conflict between the nationalist president and the pro-European prime minister.
President Donald Trump has launched 'Project Liberty' to free commercial ships blocked in the Middle East by the Iran conflict. Iran has condemned the announcement. The Strait of Hormuz handles 20% of global oil; British shipping firms watch nervously.
Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated sharply over the weekend following a cross-border incident in the Kashmir valley that left at least 26 civilians dead and dozens more injured, triggering the most serious diplomatic crisis between the two nuclear-armed neighbours…
Three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine endures — battered, exhausted, but unbroken. The country’s ability to sustain military resistance against a far larger adversary has confounded early expectations and represents one of the most remarkable feats of national resilience…
The sweeping tariff measures announced by the Trump administration in early April 2026 — the most aggressive deployment of US trade barriers since the Smoot-Hawley era of the 1930s — are sending shockwaves through global supply chains and placing British…
Leaders of the Group of Seven industrialised nations gathered in Kananaskis, Alberta, for a three-day summit that placed economic security, artificial intelligence governance and continued support for Ukraine at the top of the agenda. The meeting, hosted by Canadian Prime…
India has officially overtaken Japan to become the world’s third largest economy in nominal US dollar terms, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook database published this week. With a GDP of $4.34 trillion in 2025, India…
Transatlantic trade tensions escalated significantly this week as the European Union confirmed it was preparing a package of retaliatory tariffs on US goods worth approximately €30 billion annually, in response to the sweeping import duties imposed by the Trump administration…
NATO leaders meeting in London this week agreed a landmark defence spending package worth a collective £500 billion over five years, the most significant expansion of the alliance’s military investment programme since the Cold War, as member nations responded to…
The International Monetary Fund raised its forecast for global economic growth in 2026 to 3.2% in its World Economic Outlook published on Tuesday, an upward revision of 0.1 percentage point from January’s assessment, citing stronger-than-expected performance in major emerging market…
