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Rishi Sunak will hold the first of a series of summits with UK corporate leaders on Monday as his ruling Conservative party seeks to repair the damage done by the Brexit years and fend off Labour’s attempts to become the party of business. The debut of the “Business Connect” forum, which will bring together 200

Several countries, including the UK, US and Italy, have begun evacuations from Sudan, after a week of fighting between the country’s armed forces and a paramilitary group. British prime minister Rishi Sunak said “UK armed forces have completed a complex and rapid evacuation of British diplomats and their families”. The White House said it had

Jeff Shell is leaving as chief executive of NBCUniversal after an investigation into alleged inappropriate conduct with a female colleague, parent company Comcast said on Sunday. Shell, who has served as the top executive of the media network since January 2020, said in a statement provided by Comcast that he “had an inappropriate relationship with

The White House has asked South Korea to urge its chipmakers not to fill any market gap in China if Beijing bans Idaho-based Micron from selling chips, as it tries to rally allies to counter Chinese economic influence. The US made the request as President Yoon Suk-yeol prepares to travel to Washington for a state

Brazil’s president is touring the Iberian peninsula in an attempt to boost ties with the EU, but his persistent claims that both Russia and Ukraine are responsible for the ongoing war highlight the bloc’s difficulty in winning over the global south. During his stay in Portugal, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that Ukraine “does

The Labour party has suspended Diane Abbott, a key ally of former leader Jeremy Corbyn, after she suggested Jewish people had never been “subject to racism” in a letter to a UK newspaper. The swift action comes just weeks after Corbyn was blocked from standing in future as a Labour candidate after his own refusal

The writer is chair of Rockefeller International Today commentators overwhelmingly agree that a weakening US dollar cannot possibly lose its status as the world’s dominant currency because there is “no alternative” on the visible horizon. Perhaps, but don’t tell that to the many countries racing to find an alternative, and such complacency will only accelerate their

European governments have reacted with anger and dismay to comments by a Chinese diplomat questioning the legal status of former Soviet states and Ukraine’s sovereignty over Crimea. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who regained their independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, have said they will summon Chinese diplomats on Monday to complain about

The steady stream of European leaders visiting Beijing recently comes with a risk. Europe’s eagerness must make it look increasingly in China’s eyes like a demandeur — the party in diplomatic relations that cannot wait for the other to propose something, but has to come asking. But what exactly is Europe asking for? It is

The UK state-backed insurance scheme designed to help keep the live events sector going through the coronavirus pandemic paid out just one claim of £180,500, while generating almost £6mn in premiums, according to official data. The “live events reinsurance scheme”, which was set up in September 2021 and wound up a year later, paid out