Gary Gibbon
EU/Ukraine talks – hawks, doves and economics
The truth is the bulk of EU countries didn’t have the appetite to risk their own economic well-being in punishing Russia. And we are still in phase two of a three phase process.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Ukraine crisis: Russian provocation stiffens EU resolve
The EU has announced an escalating scale of punishments contingent on Russia’s behaviour. But as it escalates, it gets less specific.
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Jon Snow
12 Years a Slave – one of the most important films ever made
I am still in recovery – recovery from watching a film in a cinema. But it was an immense and overwhelming experience.
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Jon Snow
EU energy crisis: prepare to abandon energy targets
Europe’s collective energy needs are startling, and the only available options terrifying. We are going to abandon most of our sustainable energy targets.
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Jon Snow
Why the Iran nuclear deal is the overture to much more
It is not so different from the nuclear deal Hassan Rouhani offered when he was Tehran’s nuclear negotiator 10 years ago. Now he’s Iran’s president and the western powers are desperate for a deal.
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Geoff White
A ‘European cloud’ won’t keep your data safe from prying eyes
You might think that if you live in London and email your mate in Paris, there’s no chance the message will ever go via the US. You’re wrong.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Iran’s nuclear deal reshuffles allegiances in the Middle East
The nuclear deal is just a start of what could become a major shift in alliances in the Middle East. What happened in Geneva may have huge ramifications in Damascus and beyond.
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Tom Clarke
Spying, the seaside, sub-sea cables – and Rudyard Kipling
I’m down in Bude, in Cornwall, trying to find out what people think of the local GCHQ outpost’s spying on transatlantic data traffic.
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Kerry urges ‘vital partner’ Egypt towards democracy
US secretary of state John Kerry meets his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo for “detailed and frank” talks with a “vital partner” that Washington says it is committed to working with.
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Jonathan Rugman
Syria: talks about talks face 'formidable obstacles'
At next month’s international conference on Syria, it is unclear which opposition groups will talk to a regime accused of wholesale slaughter.
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Jonathan Rugman
How much rope will Iran’s regime give Rouhani?
Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new president, could meet Barack Obama for the first time this week – however, some fear the United States could demand too much from Iran.
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Jon Snow
The UN's comeback moment: will hope and history chime?
Should the American and Iranian presidents manage to grasp a handshake in the margins of the UN general assembly, it could prove the most important handshake since the ending of the cold war.
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Jonathan Rugman
Time for a 'grand bargain' between United States and Iran
You’d have to go back over 15 years to find such constructive interaction between Iran and the west, and over 35 years since Iranian and American leaders last met.
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'I went on a 45-day holiday with the Washington shooter'
Om Suthamtewakul, a 30-year-old Thai woman, tells Asia Correspondent John Sparks about her experiences in Thailand with the Washington shooter Aaron Alexis.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Putin’s Russian bear scents US blood
President Vladimir Putin has a number of guises – from ace fisherman to chopper pilot. His moves on Syria this week have only bolstered that fearsome self-image – and his ambitions for Russia.
