FBI chief’s endorsement of Covid lab leak theory highlights the tussle between hawks and doves within the administration The FBI chief, Chris Wray, has endorsed the theory that the Covid pandemic was the result of a laboratory leak in China, further sharpening an increasingly combative bilateral relationship. In making his intervention, Wray, who was appointed…
Ruling party candidate promises hope, opposition pledges change as Thursday’s deadline to end campaigns approaches.
UK officials in flurry of diplomacy seeking agreement with EU over protocol, but play down talk that deal is close Rishi Sunak is considering a trip to visit Joe Biden in the US as talks between the UK and EU over the Northern Ireland protocol intensify. The prime minister’s officials are drawing up plans for him…
UN agencies have welcomed a pledge by 12 African countries to end AIDS in children by 2030, announced on Wednesday at a meeting in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
Fight of His Life author on Kamala Harris’s struggles and growth, Afghanistan, a strong second year … and if Biden will run again There are those who believe that at 80, Joe Biden is too old to serve a second term as president. Yet few clamour for him to hand over to the person who would…
BERLIN — News this month that the number of German soldiers declaring themselves conscientious objectors rose fivefold in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine created little more than a ripple in Germany. For many Germans it’s perfectly natural for members of the Bundeswehr, the army, to renege on the pledge they made to…
The West is using the wrong analogy for Russia’s invasion—and worsening the outcome.
Europe’s American president: The paradox of Ursula von der Leyen European Commission chief’s top-down approach has endeared her to Washington but alienated colleagues in Brussels. By Suzanne Lynch and Ilya Gridneff Illustration by Lucas Peverill for POLITICO Ursula von der Leyen’s whirlwind tour of the United States started in New York at the United Nations General…
PARIS/BERLIN — Thirty years after the horrors of the Balkan wars laid bare Western Europe’s incapacity to deal with conflict on European soil, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is demonstrating how little has changed. As Yugoslavia started to break apart in 1991, it fell to the Luxembourgish Foreign Minister Jacques Poos to make the ill-fatedly optimistic…
Biden once scolded George W. Bush for pledging to defend Taiwan. Now he is making a worse mistake by chipping away at long-standing policy without a better alternative.