Fears are growing of a return to war in Ethiopia's Tigray region, just four years after a devastating conflict ended in a fragile peace deal.

A report by the Tony Blair Institute has also called for Keir Starmer’s Brexit red lines against rejoining the single market and customs union to be ditched immediately, while another influential thin...

Minister Alison McGovern delivered the keynote speech at the Alzheimer's Society Conference 2026 in London, highlighting the government's action on dementia

The left-wing bloc led by Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats has won Sweden's general election, the election authority said after the final votes were counted on Thursday.

Exclusive: Analysis seen by The Independent reveals the wealthiest crypto investors would get £100m a year in tax relief from Nigel Farage’s party

Catholicism defined the home, the school and the streets where the new MP grew up. It moulded the view that this former altar boy would take into Downing Street

Even voters for far-right and Eurosceptic parties back closer relations, polling says Two-thirds of EU citizens would back Britain rejoining the bloc, while most UK voters say Brexit has been bad for the issues they care about and want closer ties, including levels of integration – such as free movement – long seen as toxic, a survey has found. Ten years after the Brexit referendum, the polling by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a thinktank, found 66% of respondents across 15 countries felt UK membership was a very good, good or “neither a good nor a bad” idea. Continue reading...

Ten years ago Ebbw Vale had the highest proportion of leave voters in Wales despite huge EU funding, which has not been fully replaced

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

Even if Trump’s deal holds, Iran retains the ability to close Hormuz again. If the Houthis were to simultaneously disrupt shipping in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the consequences would be disastrous.

Frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to return to full-scale military confrontation with armed groups Colombians go to the polls on Sunday in a presidential runoff expected to trigger to a dramatic shift in the country’s decades-long armed conflict, now at its most violent point since the landmark 2016 peace agreement between the government and most of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). Polls show the frontrunner is the Trump-admiring far-right lawyer and millionaire businessman Abelardo de la Espriella, who has vowed to abandon President Gustavo Petro’s “total peace” plan of negotiating the disarmament of all criminal organisations and instead return to full-scale military confrontation with armed groups. Continue reading...

Even voters for far-right and Eurosceptic parties back closer relations, polling says

Party faces new questions over the alleged Russian cyberattack it claims sparked the £5m Harborne donation scandal

A new report by Best for Britain shows that a push for UK membership of the European Union would galvanise support among progressive voters. The report highlights that a pro-membership position offers...

As the Iran war disrupts oil and gas supply, Oslo is positioning itself as Europe’s energy-rich savior.

POLITICO takes a Tour de France ahead of key municipal elections in March.

Two remarkable interventions during the Commons juries debate show why what the Greeks called logos and pathos can’t beat character

Reform UK processes cryptocurrency donations through a foreign infrastructure that housed a US Treasury sanctioned crime syndicate laundering $4 billion in illicit funds – including proceeds from Nort...