War, cross-border conflict and geopolitical upheaval are rarely deemed good for business. Yet that appears to have been the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on two of the aggressor’s…
Category: Politics and International Relations
USA: Trump pulls $400m from Columbia University, saying it failed to protect Jewish students
The Trump administration is immediately pulling $400m (£310m) of federal funding from Columbia University, saying it failed to fight antisemitism on campus. A statement by four federal agencies said the…
USA: Trump reining in Musk after a cabinet showdown with secretaries
US President Donald Trump called a meeting of his cabinet secretaries on Thursday to discuss Elon Musk and his efforts to slash government spending and personnel numbers. It turned heated,…
Ukraine: Zelensky hopes US-Ukraine talks next week will be ‘meaningful’
US-Ukraine talks will be held in Saudi Arabia next week, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, expressing hopes that it will be “a meaningful meeting”. The Ukrainian leader, who will be…
Syria: Government still faces threat from Assad loyalists
In January, days after the first-month anniversary of the fall of the Assad regime in a lightning Islamist-led rebel offensive in Syria, a group of young men – some of…
Syria: Security forces accused of executing dozens of Alawites
Syrian security forces are alleged to have executed dozens of people belonging to the Alawite minority in the coastal province of Latakia, according to a war monitoring group. The British-based…
USA: Trump ‘strongly considering’ large-scale sanctions and tariffs on Russia
US President Donald Trump has said he is “strongly considering large-scale sanctions” and tariffs on Russia until a ceasefire and peace deal with Ukraine is reached. Trump said he was…
Ukraine: Russian strike kills 11 in town near Donetsk
At least 11 people were killed and 30 injured in a Russian strike on Dobropillya, a town in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Ukrainian authorities say. Eight residential buildings and an…
USA: Trump says Ukraine ‘more difficult’ to deal with than Russia
US President Donald Trump has said he is finding it “more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine” than Russia in attempts to broker peace between the two nations. The US…
South Korea: The ‘traitor’ at the heart of impeachment drama
Han Dong-Hoon was driving home from dinner in Seoul on December 3, scanning the radio, when he heard a breaking news update: President Yoon Suk-Yeol was preparing to deliver an…