As the war involving the United States, Iran and Israel expands across the Middle East and reverberates through global energy and financial markets, European powers have largely stayed out of direct combat. Instead of deploying forces or joining offensive operations, capitals from Paris to London and Berlin have urged restraint,
The White House declared it a first in diplomatic history: Melania Trump became the first spouse of a world leader to preside over the United Nations Security Council, convening a session focused on children, technology and education in conflict zones. Seated at the horseshoe table beneath the council’s iconic mural,
COPENHAGEN — Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has called a snap parliamentary election for March 24, accelerating the country’s political calendar at a moment of rising international unease and renewed attention on Greenland. The move reflects a calculation familiar to leaders across Europe: that domestic politics can no longer be
A sudden reprieve for major U.S. allies highlights the chaotic evolution of American tariff policy, which has shaken markets and diplomatic trust. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the European Union and the United Kingdom would be spared the highest tariff burdens under his expanding trade regime,
In Washington, climate capital now waits on a jurisdictional question. More than a year after the Environmental Protection Agency moved to freeze roughly $20 billion in clean energy grants awarded under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, the legal fight has returned to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District
In Brussels, sustainability ambition met economic gravity. After four years of negotiation, European Union member states gave final approval to the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive as amended by the Omnibus I package, narrowing the scope of one of the bloc’s most consequential corporate accountability frameworks. The directive survives, but
In a sweeping decision with immediate global consequences, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled against President Donald Trump, blocking his administration’s use of emergency powers to impose broad tariffs on foreign imports. The ruling, delivered amid heightened trade tensions, redraws the legal boundaries of American trade authority and forces
In Albany, climate authority is not contracting. It is consolidating. The New York State Senate has passed legislation that would require large companies doing business in the state to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, moving the Empire State closer to establishing its own corporate climate reporting regime. The bill now
In Washington, the scaffolding of federal climate regulation did not collapse in a single vote. It was dismantled at its base. The Trump administration has formally repealed the 2009 “endangerment finding,” the scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health. With it, the Environmental Protection Agency eliminated federal tailpipe
In the early hours of Thursday morning in Bridgetown, the Caribbean’s easternmost nation did not just choose a leader. It reaffirmed a global reform mandate. Mia Mottley, the 60-year-old Prime Minister of Barbados, has secured her third consecutive landslide victory. Her Barbados Labour Party (BLP) swept all 30 seats in
