The shutdown ball is firmly in the Senate’s court. The spending package passed the House along party lines, with one sole ...

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After US-Kyiv talks imploded, European countries have vowed to increase defense spending at a UK-hosted summit. Daniel Block and Parmeshwar Bawa discuss the ramifications of the latest developments.

A petrol giant in Norway has announced a ban on fuel sales to all US forces following Donald Trump's treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House, it has been reported ...

The EU cannot fill this gap left by others," a commission ... development and social services organisations in Europe. The U.S. contributed approximately 42% of global humanitarian aid in 2024 ...

The US administration’s 90-day foreign aid freeze has left a huge hole in funding worldwide for everything from HIV medicines to mosquito nets, but as calls go out for alternative donors to plug the ...

20, 2023, stands in ruins in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Rawia Tambora and her son Yazan fill bottles with water inside their home, which was ...

The implications for the Ukrainians are clear, too: Trump believes they cannot fight on without his backing, and that we in Europe cannot support them to do so now that he has quit the field.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

What I can tell you is the things that he talks about are frightening to those of us who know the history of Europe in the 1930s and ’40s. And I’m deeply concerned about his predilection for ...

Or that Francis recently extended the term of the dean of the College of Cardinals rather than find someone new to fill a key job during the next papal transition. Or that at 88, he is one of the ...

Foreign aid is no act of charity. It is an investment in the values that unite us: a commitment to peaceful societies based on human rights. Council of Europe member states should fill the void in ...