Gary Gibbon
Theresa May, transitions and the Northern Ireland border
Theresa May has been given permission by the Tory Right to embrace a full blown transition period after Brexit.
Search results for ‘middle east’
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‘Huge step for Trump to go to centre of Muslim world’
Ali Shihabi, the executive director of the Arabia Foundation, and Dr Sanam Vakil, associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House, on President Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia and how hardliners in Iran are using fear of him to galvanise opposition to President Rouhani.
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Gary Gibbon
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See inside Banksy’s new Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem
The Walled Off Hotel is a few metres from a stretch of the controversial West Bank barrier which has been heavily decorated by artists.
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FactCheck: are most asylum seekers really economic migrants?
Mr Farage is wrong to suggest that most people who claim to be refugees are really found to be economic migrants.
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Trump: does he back two-state solution?
There was plenty more from that Donald Trump press conference with the Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, the US leader appearing to move away from America’s longstanding commitment to a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict.
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Jon Snow
Democracy, sovereignty and Brexit
Our unwritten constitution has been tested more in the past six months than at any other time in the past 60 years. It may be time, in this brave new world, to write down what some of these rules are.
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US reverses travel ban over court ruling
This afternoon the U.S. State Department said it would allow people with valid visas into the United States in order to comply with a ruling from a federal judge in Seattle barring President Donald Trump’s executive action. That Trump executive order had temporarily halted the travellers entering the US from seven majority-Muslim countries in the…
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Jon Snow
Trump’s ‘America First’ and what it means for us
As his own inauguration speech made it clear – we can no longer expect America to deal with the crises that beset us.
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FactCheck Q&A: Trump’s travel ban
The very latest advice from the UK Foreign Office is that people with British passports will not be affected.
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What Trump means for the world
America will be presenting a very different face to the world tonight.
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Jon Snow
Reporting Presidents: the questions raised by Donald Trump
He was a ‘B’ movie star and we didn’t think that much of him in those days. Even though he had at least been Governor of California. Looking back, I suppose there were times when Ronald Reagan was regarded at the outset a bit like some now view Trump. Both, after all, promised to make America Great Again.
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Lindsey Hilsum
From Rwanda to Aleppo: a history of inaction
Every few hours I check my Whatsapp feed from the doctors in East Aleppo. They post videos of injured children and a combination of eyewitness news and desperate messages.
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Jon Snow
Our permissive friendship with Wahhabism
Will Theresa May maintain Britain’s friendship with Saudi Arabia while its brand of radical Islam continues to be exported to other countries?
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FactCheck: what do we learn from the Blair-Bush letters?
Letters written by Tony Blair for the eyes of the US president only have now been declassified. What do they tell us about the Iraq War?
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Kylie Morris
Donald Trump: prepare for a nasty and bruising contest
Now the Republican Party must live with the candidate it never imagined would be the Presidential nominee.
