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White House finalizing plans to expand where Ukraine can hit inside Russia
The talks have been closely held among a small group of officials inside the White House.
Ukraine’s Russia strike ban hopes dashed
PMQs: Sunak wins by exploiting Labour’s winter fuel divisions
Ukraine’s hopes rise on permission for long-range strikes against Russia
Building a shared finance and security vision between Britain and Europe
US asked UK in August what it would take to reconsider Israeli weapons suspension
The UK is backing away from oil
Ukraine to press top US and UK officials on striking deeper inside Russia
A top GOP lawmaker says the U.S. is ready to loosen restrictions. The Biden administration says no decision has been made.
France, Germany, UK sanction Iran for supplying missiles to Russia
“This is a further escalation … and will see Iranian missiles reaching European soil,” the three countries say.
Blinken: Iran sending ballistic missiles to Russia
US secretary of state promises “further sanctions on Iran later today” as he warns European security at risk.
The tragedy of Liz Truss
The former prime minister faces an up hill struggle to rehabilitate her battered reputation.
Conservative conference used to be a business magnet. Now it’s a joke.
Normally a hotbed of business schmoozing, the Conservative conference is generating shrugs among industry chiefs.
World order ‘under threat,’ UK and US spy chiefs warn
MI6 boss Richard Moore and CIA chief Bill Burns said in an op-ed in the Financial Times that there was work being done to “disrupt the reckless campaign of sabotage” across Europe by Russia.
US pushes back against Ukraine pleas to lift weapon restrictions
“There’s no one capability that will, in and of itself, be decisive in this campaign,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says.
UK to again delay Brexit border checks on food
Industry says the controls could push up prices.
Zelenskyy tells Ukraine’s allies to hurry up with air defense aid
Ukrainian president calls for Western pledges to be fulfilled “without delay.”
Elon Musk’s top lobbyist leaves X
He’s one of the few high-profile figures to have stayed on after Elon Musk took over Twitter in 2022.
It’s time to address this leading cause of death: COPD
A new report about the global state of COPD offers insights from 30 national experts on how policy action can be implemented worldwide.
Can Labour make the trains run on time?
Presented by Lloyds Banking Group.
Meet the new ‘Mr. Ukraine’ at the head of Britain’s military
British Defense Secretary John Healey told POLITICO the new Labour government would increase military spending.
US, Estonia, allies accuse Russia of cyberattacks against Ukraine and NATO
Hacking efforts as part of this campaign began in 2020, and included attacks on Ukrainian groups ahead of Russia’s invasion, along with critical infrastructure organizations in NATO member states.
‘No friend of the UK’: Brexiteers aghast at return of old foe Michel Barnier
Shock nomination as Emmanuel Macron’s prime minister has riled up Nigel Farage and fellow Eurosceptics.
Oasis fiasco prompts UK Ticketmaster probe
Competition and Markets Authority looks back in anger after “dynamic pricing” row.
Don’t abolish us, cry Britain’s aristocratic lawmakers
Tory peer slams “high-handed, shoddy” decision to remove Britain’s remaining legislators who inherit their places. But Labour says it’s sorting unfinished business.
Starmer’s wasted opportunity to influence Netanyahu on Gaza
Ehud Olmert, the prime minister of Israel between 2006 and 2009, believes Britain’s suspension of some of its arms exports is a “mistake” that won’t affect the country’s military campaign …
UK arms-sale ban won’t make any difference to war, says former Israeli PM
Ehud Olmert tells POLITICO’s Power Play podcast that Israel’s allies should instead focus on lack “of any political horizon or end game strategy” from Benjamin Netanyahu.
David Cameron’s barefoot warrior bids for glory in California
Britain’s disrupter-in-chief and Trump admirer now has his eye on the Golden State’s governor’s mansion.
PMQs scorecard: Sunak punches Starmer over pensioners and Israel
The PM was probed on issues where he faces rumbling discontent from his backbenchers.
UK politicians ‘complacent and dismissive’ before deadly Grenfell Tower blaze
Report slams ‘decades of failure’ in the run-up to the 2017 blaze that killed 72 people.
Secretive Draghi is echoing Soviet Union restructuring
Like Gorbachev’s Perestroika, the report from the former ECB chief could herald a change of historic proportions. It’s far less innocuous than it sounds.