One year on from the Druze massacre, whilst Damascus opens up to the world, the southern city remains isolated, impoverished and still seeking justice. A population divided between the Jewish state and al-Sharaa 

Uproar over the CDU politician’s use of a surrogate in America 

Following the electoral collapse and Keir Starmer’s downfall, the former mayor of Manchester has become leader unopposed and will be tasked by King Charles on Monday with forming a government. Farage remains in the background, but the sense of urgency that had fuelled the Labour revolt already seems less pressing

Yesterday in Brühl, France and Germany pledged to revitalise cooperation between Berlin and Paris in the field of defence and to strengthen coordination in the area of nuclear deterrence, in an attempt to put the failure of the SCAF – the project to develop a sixth-generation multi-role fighter – behind them

The Commission has launched a review of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). However, it has come under intense pressure from three groups: on the one hand, Spain and the Nordic countries; on the other, Italy, Poland and ten other states. Germany and France, meanwhile, find themselves in the middle

Budapest’s former Foreign Minister Szijjártó is going to work for the Chinese in Byd. Together with Viktor Orbán, he has helped turn Hungary into a Trojan horse for Russia and China in Europe

The address to the nation was intended to reassure the public ahead of the November mid-term elections. The President speaks of a Chinese conspiracy (“Colossal theft of electoral data”) and the deep state, and calls for the Save America Act. Yet the documents declassified by the White House tell a different story

Starmer ends his term in Ukraine with a final gesture of solidarity, whilst at the local councils he and Badenoch offer a rare lesson in institutional grace. And in the challenge to Farage, Binface emerges – the delightfully British antidote to political fatalism

The public is forcing Zelensky to choose: the general or the former defence minister