Trump claims “big win” as Nato defence spending set to increase to 5% of GDP. Read full article at source...
Trump’s message to Israel and Iran on the way to the Nato summit. Read full article at source...
Foreign Secretary David Lammy has urged Iran to take “the off-ramp” and return to the negotiating table. Iran has vowed there will be “everlasting consequences” following US strikes at the weekend, intended to take out the country’s nuclear programme. Lammy said he had told Iran that it would be a “catastrophic mistake” for them to...
EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (centre) met European diplomats in Geneva on Friday Iran has said it will not resume talks over its nuclear programme while under attack, hours after Israel’s defence minister warned of “prolonged” conflict against the Islamic republic. Exchanges of violence continued on Friday, as Iran fired another salvo of missiles...
The telephone calls and WhatsApp messages continue apace this weekend between leaders, foreign ministers and diplomats, with the expectation that there are many more days to come in this conflict between Israel and Iran. There are currently two so-called “crisis centres” running in the Foreign Office, both stood up in the last 48 hours. One...
Jake Sullivan has been, along with Anthony Blinken, one of the top players in the Democratic foreign policy world for a decade and a half. He is so good at his job that you could call him a key architect of the great policies that brought us the color revolutions, the Libyan collapse, the “Arab...
Reuters World leaders may be gathering on Saturday to pay their respects to a fellow statesman whose church has more members than their states have citizens. But they may also use the Pope’s funeral as a rare and unexpected opportunity to conduct a little impromptu diplomacy. For it will be one of the largest gatherings...