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May 27, 2026 - World

Country’s state TV says Iran would allow shipping in waterway and US would lift naval blockade under draft memorandumDonald Trump will host the 12th cabinet meeting of his second term on Wednesday as talks on ending the nearly three-month war with Iran reach a crucial stage amid conflicting signals over whether an agreement is close.The gathering had originally been scheduled to take place in the bucolic setting of Camp David, the presidential retreat that had previously been the site of sensitive Middle East negotiations, including the historic Israeli-Egyptian peace accords. Continue reading...

May 27, 2026 - World

‘If you don’t get how that’s driving politics now…then you are not understanding what’s going on,’ Burnham saysTony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to TrumpZack Polanski, the Green party leader, posted this on social media about Tony Blair’s latest intervention this morning.Tony Blair.What the billionaire class have paid for.Spot the difference between “Tony Blair says” and “Nigel Farage says” Continue reading...

May 27, 2026 - World

Aleida Maria Anderske Kaspersma, known as Leidy, vanished in July 1978 while living near the Irish town of Kenmare with her British boyfriend Nick.

May 27, 2026 - World

Texas attorney general who secured Republican nomination for Senate seat praises president after defeating incumbent John CornynSign up to the Breaking News US emailPresident Trump is set to hold the 12th cabinet meeting of his second term at 11am EST on Wednesday.Three Democratic state attorneys general said their deputies were turned away from a roundtable hosted by JD Vance on Tuesday, sowing confusion about what the White House has billed as a bipartisan crackdown on fraud. Continue reading...

May 27, 2026 - World

Unless the mainstream gets its act together, next year’s election looks likely to hand the keys of the Élysée to the far right• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here“The real risk,” France’s prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, reportedly said last month, “is that this tangle of ambitions reflects such a lack of engagement with reality on the part of all these candidates that voters find the whole thing grotesque.”He has a point. By this time next year, France will have a new president and Emmanuel Macron, who is constitutionally barred from serving more than two consecutive terms, will have left after a decade in the Élysée Palace. Continue reading...