African leaders commit to end AIDS among children by 2030
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.
‘Joe Biden has been constantly underestimated’: Chris Whipple on his White House book
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…
Germany’s strategic timidity
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…
Ukraine’s War Is Like World War I, Not World War II
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
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…
When will Europe learn to defend itself?
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…
On Taiwan, President Biden Should Listen to Senator Biden
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.
How Gorbachev’s political legacy was destroyed by Putin
How Gorbachev’s political legacy was destroyed by Putin Era of detente and arms control between Washington and Moscow has been replaced by a bloody war in Ukraine Live reaction: tributes from world leaders after Mikhail Gorbachev’s death Mikhail Gorbachev lived long enough to see everything he had tried to achieve crumble or get blown up. The era…
The Guardian view on the US in Africa: a better tone, but what next? | Editorial
The Guardian view on the US in Africa: a better tone, but what next? Editorial Though the secretary of state struck the right note on his three-nation tour, it will take more than rhetoric to strengthen partnerships on the continent The only way was up. When Donald Trump wasn’t denigrating “shithole countries”, his administration showed little…
Blinken makes case for democracy at start of sub-Saharan Africa tour
Blinken makes case for democracy at start of sub-Saharan Africa tour Secretary of state tells reporters in South Africa that US ‘not trying to outdo anyone’ amid growing influence of Russia and China Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, has appealed to “governments, communities and peoples” across Africa to embrace Washington’s vision of democracy, openness…