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Prior to Brexit, Robbins had long been regarded by fellow officials in Whitehall as a high performer primed for a top job in Britain’s impartial civil service. But he returns bearing battle scars from serving as then-Prime Minister Theresa May’s Europe Adviser and the country’s chief Brexit negotiator from 2017 to 2019, the high watermark of the country’s fraught Brexit process. He was the frequent target of angry briefings from Brexiteers who accused him of pro-EU bias. It forced a rare public intervention from then-Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, who said those attacking Robbins “should be ashamed of themselves” and leapt to the defense of…
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Bannon, who is now prominent right-wing podcaster, last week told Musk that he and other MAGA supporters are going to “rip his face off” unless he stops pushing for visas to bring skilled foreign workers to the U.S. The two have been in recent weeks locked in a dispute over the H-1B visa program, in which Trump sided with Musk. But despite their disagreements, Bannon said that Musk’s influence will work to the advantage of the MAGA movement, of which he is an adamant supporter. “I support his participation because the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” Bannon said.…
Upon arriving in Poland, the Bui sisters began to discover the mysteries of Polish Romanticism, and were stricken with awe. Their fascination with Slavic mythology, culture, and folklore led them to make films inspired by these ancient traditions. The Bui sisters grew up in the south of France. Their father came from Vietnam, their mother from Poland. They were unfamiliar with the Slavic world, but when they moved to Poland as teenagers, they immediately fell in love. Now, the two sisters are sharing their love of Slavic traditions with the rest of the world via a film adaptation that’s won…
Trump declared Tuesday he would not exclude using economic or military coercion to gain control of Greenland, a self-ruling Danish territory, and the Panama Canal. “I’m not gonna commit to that. No. It might be that you’ll have to do something,” he said. “We need Greenland for national security purposes,” he added. “People really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do they should give it up because we need it for national security.” Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., landed in Greenland on Tuesday on what he called a private visit. His entourage included the elder…
US President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his New York criminal hush money case. US President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to block a New York state court from sentencing him on Friday for his criminal conviction relating to hush money paid to a porn star.Trump’s legal team turned to the nation’s highest court on Wednesday after New York courts denied their request to delay the sentencing by Justice Juan Merchan, who oversaw Trump’s trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump has…
LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will host French President Emmanuel Macron for talks Thursday as the two leaders await the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. president. No. 10 Downing Street announced Wednesday that the pair would meet at Chequers, the prime minister’s country retreat, and discuss Ukraine — a hot-button topic in the incoming U.S. administration — as well as artificial intelligence, economic growth and legal migration. Both Macron and Starmer have been vocal supporters of Ukraine’s pushback against Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion, and stressed the need for continued backing since the far more sceptical Trump’s November…
Back to the clash: Even before Badenoch asked her first question, Starmer said “reasonable people could agree or disagree” on having another inquiry — but that survivors of abuse “want action.” Make a u-turn: The PM urged Badenoch to withdraw what he called her party’s “wrecking amendment” to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill later Wednesday calling for an inquiry. The gambit, tacked on to existing, largely unrelated legislation, won’t pass due to Labour’s huge parliamentary majority — but the Tories want to draw a dividing line. In the detail: Badenoch stressed the urgency of another inquiry. She said the previous…
The Biden administration has sanctioned the RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo as well as businesses owned by the group in the UAE. The US has accused the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing genocide in the country’s civil war and imposed sanctions on its leader.In a determination published on Tuesday almost two years after the start of Sudan’s brutal conflict, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the RSF was guilty of systematically murdering and raping people from certain ethnic groups. The paramilitary group, which has been fighting against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) since April 2023, largely…
French, German and Polish foreign ministers have planned a trip to Washington D.C. shortly after the United States’ President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, three European Union diplomats told POLITICO. The idea of ministers from three major EU countries traveling together would be to make a “show of European unity,” one of the diplomats said, who, like the other two, was granted anonymity to speak about the visit. The trip is still in planning stages and no date has yet been set. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot and Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski could…