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Speaking to hundreds of local Republicans in an open-air pavilion in Salem, New Hampshire, this week, Ron DeSantis made no explicit mention of Donald Trump. But with thinly veiled attacks, the Florida governor offered a clear picture of how he intends to challenge the former president for the Republican party’s presidential nomination in 2024. “I’m
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AstraZeneca’s chief executive returned from a recent trip to China exuberant about an “explosion” of biotech companies in the country and the potential for his business to deliver drugs discovered there to the world. Pascal Soriot said the market was “completely open” for pharma investment. “It’s hard to not be impressed by the progress that
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Boiler manufacturers are pushing back against government efforts to force them to rapidly make thousands more heat pumps, in a new flashpoint over the pace of the shift towards lower carbon heating.  The government plans to fine companies from next year unless they meet stringent quotas for heat pump production and installation. But bosses are lobbying
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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signalled a move to more orthodox economic policies as he unveiled sweeping changes to his cabinet, revamping his financial team and replacing an interior minister known for his hardline rhetoric. Erdoğan shook up several top departments, announcing new finance, foreign and interior ministers in a speech late Saturday. The appointments
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Three Israeli soldiers have been shot dead by an Egyptian security official, Israeli and Egyptian authorities said on Saturday, in the worst incident on the countries’ border for more than a decade. Egypt was the first Arab country to establish diplomatic relations with Israel in 1979, and the border has been relatively calm since a
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When Antony Knights and his wife, Louise Firth, first noticed that their British Airways flight to Berlin from London’s Heathrow airport was listed as delayed, they were neither surprised nor very concerned. But shortly afterwards they and others waiting for the flight, on May 25, were shocked to be told to leave the airport terminal.
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A train crash in eastern India has killed more than 200 people, officials said, in one of the country’s deadliest railway accidents in decades. At least 233 people were killed and 900 injured in a collision involving multiple trains in the state of Odisha on Friday night, according to the state’s chief secretary Pradeep Jena.
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Brussels’ Midi/Zuid station, a stop on Eurostar’s London-Amsterdam service © Thierry Monasse/Polaris/Eyevine The train from London to Amsterdam is a 3hr 52m joke at the expense of the nation state. Four countries zip past without so much as a courtesy announcement over the speaker at each crossing of a border. Staff of indeterminate citizenship offer drinks
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