Defence minister says extent of sexual misconduct found by study is ‘unacceptable’, as military tries to attract more recruits Germany’s defence minister has promised a “zero tolerance” approach to sexual abuse in the armed forces after a study found soldiers, particularly women, faced extensive harassment within the ranks. The first comprehensive study of its kind into the Bundeswehr, conducted by the Centre for Military History and Social Sciences in Potsdam and released this week, comes as...
Europe has been demanding a seat at the negotiating table for several months, but Moscow has not yet formally agreed. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoys, left Moscow on Thursday with very little new information on the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
The US has seized servers linked to a North Korean scam that used fake video meetings and deepfakes to steal more than $400 million in crypto, and has moved to seize $1.2 billion that was taken from Binance.
Jared Kushner says move will allow talks to address ‘broader postwar European security arrangements’; Putin refuses to soften territorial demands. What we know on day 1,724 Ukraine and Russia have agreed to expand the next round of peace negotiations to include European countries , Donald Trump’s envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner said late on Thursday, after meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin. “This will allow us to address the broader postwar European security arrangements alongside t...
Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law and journalist Danny Vincent on the sentencing of the iconic Hong Kong campaigner Joshua Wong to another 10 years in prison. Send your comments and questions to tif.questions@theguardian.com He has been leading protests since he was 14. Joshua Wong has been on the cover of Time magazine, the focus of a Netflix documentary and an icon for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. Wong has been leading the fight against a Chinese squeeze on freedoms in Hong Kong for...
Amid ongoing diplomatic tensions between the two countries, French exports to Algeria have suffered an unprecedented decline. Algerian authorities have particularly targeted sectors such as steel and food products.
Haitian security forces regained control of the country's main football stadium on Thursday after two years under gang control, with Salvadoran troops taking over security at the venue. The operation comes as El Salvador deploys 2,000 soldiers to Haiti following an ambush that left four of its troops missing.
Exclusive: Former Labor foreign affairs minister says $368bn deal has been reduced to a diplomatic joke Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast The former Labor foreign affairs minister Bob Carr says officials in Canberra and Washington acknowledge that the US will never build and sell nuclear submarines to Australia, describing the $368bn Aukus agreement as the two countries “living a lie”. Carr, a leading critic of the deal, expects American-operated vessels will inst...
US President Donald Trump's envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner said on Thursday Russia and Ukraine agreed to expand the next round of talks to include European nations and that Washington was working toward what Kushner called the war's "largest prisoner exchange." Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.