Veteran C.I.A. Official to Retire After Losing Out on London Job
Tom Sylvester had been set to be the agency’s top liaison to Britain, America’s most important intelligence partner and the agency’s most prestigious overseas posting.
Watch: The day the Lionesses brought it home and visited No 10
Sarina Wiegman’s triumphant team arrived back in the UK, after becoming the first English team to win a major football tournament on foreign soil.
Seventeen killed as gunmen attack bar in Ecuador
Police say a boy, 12, was among the victims of the latest mass shooting in a country plagued by drug violence.
Nigeria kidnappers kill 35 hostages even after ransom paid
They were put to death despite ransoms being paid for their release, a local official told the BBC.
Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive
Jeet Heer The doom-obsessed Democratic Party remains as unpopular as ever—but there is another path. The post Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive appeared first on The Nation.
Germany and France hit out at EU-US deal
Euro slides as investors bet that long-awaited trade agreement will hurt Eurozone economy
Stay Tuned: World Trade for June
From CPB, data through May: Figure 1: World Trade Volume (blue), World Industrial Production (tan), both 2006=100., on log scale. Light orange shading denotes Trump 2.0 administration. Orange dashed line at “Liberation Day”. Source: Central Plaanbureau. There’s a drop in May as tariff-front running ended. We need June’s data for some clarity.i When (Trump) Tariffs last bloomed: Figure 2: World Trade Volume (blue), World Industrial Production (tan), both 2006=100., on log scale. Light orange shading denotes Trump 1.0 administration. Orange dashed line at notice of intent to impose Section 232, 301 tariffs. Source: Central Plaanbureau. By the way, as everybody is hailing the “deal” with Europe (All those investments! All those purchases of energy products!), just remember the sorry implementation record of the Trump US-China Economic and Trade agreement, Phase 1. US exports are shown in this post, for Q1, and nowcast for Q2.
Donald Trump blocks Taiwan’s President Lai from New York stopover
Move comes as US and China hold trade talks and seek to stabilise relations
Reconsider Gaza family case, court tells Foreign Office
A ruling says the Palestinian family, who have a British relative in the UK, are at “constant risk of injury or death”.
France and Germany lead downbeat EU response to US trade deal
France describes it as a “submission”, though there is relief in Europe that a trade war has been averted.