Diplomacy & International Relations

Top Trump official says no US ‘slush fund’ for far right in Europe

(Jack Detsch - Politico) The U.S. is not interfering in European politics, a senior U.S. State Department official told POLITICO on Saturday, despite reported...

Rubio calls on Europe to join Trump’s new world order

(Felicia Schwartz - Politico) U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Europe to help the Trump administration refashion the global order with a...

Trump and Netanyahu agree to increase pressure on Iranian oil

(Barak Ravid - Axios) President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed during their meeting at the White House on Wednesday that the...

‘Trump will be gone in three years’: Top Democrats try to reassure Europe

(Anthony Zurcher - BBC) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the centre of attention at the Munich Security Summit, as European leaders wondered...

After the landslide: Can India reset ties with a BNP-led Bangladesh?

(Soutik Biswas - BBC) When the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) swept to a landslide in the general elections on Friday, Delhi responded with studied...

Trusting Trump is hard but NATO’s newest member won’t ditch the US yet

(Tim Ross - Politico) Sometimes it is the answers politicians decline to give that are the most revealing — like whether it’s still possible,...

Washington pushes back against EU’s bid for tech autonomy

(Antoaneta Roussi - Politico) U.S. officials have countered Europe’s push for technology sovereignty from America with a clear message: It’s China you should worry...

U.S. and Iran set to hold second round of nuclear talks in Geneva

(Barak Ravid - Axios) The U.S. and Iran are expected to hold a second round of nuclear talks in Geneva next Tuesday in an...

The AU summit is an opportunity for decisive action to end the war in Sudan

(Hubert Kinkoh - Chatham House) The war in Sudan is one of the African Union’s (AU) most consequential failures of political leadership. Sudan has...

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