Ireland spends record €330m to tackle humanitarian crises as others cut aid budgets
US remains the biggest humanitarian donor, despite making cuts, with European governments reducing aid budgets to fund more defence spending
China launches live-fire drills around Taiwan, simulating blockade of key ports
Move comes after US announced $11bn arms deal for the island
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland could leave both more isolated than before
Donald Trump says United States would not be following Israel’s move, which has drawn broad condemnation
Impeachment proceedings initiated against Taiwan’s president
Vote comes amid heightened tension between China and Japan after comments by Sanae Takaichi
Algeria passes law declaring French colonisation of country a crime
New legislation makes call for reparations and official apology which Macron has so far refused to do
South Korea’s new president opens the door to renewed dialogue with North Korea
President Lee Jae Myung seeks to improve cross-border relations amid unprecedented hostility, but Kim Jong-un is not biting
Trump appointment of US special envoy to Greenland is worrying new development
US strategy has shifted to seeking to exploit discontent in Greenland towards Denmark
Unravelling of plan to use frozen Russian assets is good news for EU and Ukraine
New scheme for €90 billion loan to Kyiv is more straightforward and legally stable
Future of US in the Asia-Pacific is under close consideration
Beijing denounces US senate approval of $10 billion in arms sales to Taiwan
Tunisia returns to autocratic rule, 15 years after Jasmine Revolution
Country saw first of a string of movements across North Africa and Middle East that became known as the Arab Spring
Trump’s chief of staff goes full Mean Girls in gossipy and illuminating interview
Trump has an alcoholic’s personality, JD Vance is a conspiracy theorist and Elon Musk is an ‘odd, odd duck’, Susie Wiles tells Vanity Fair
Jimmy Lai conviction offers evidence of Hong Kong’s twin-track justice system
Former media tycoon’s case came under draconian National Security Law that supersedes city’s common law procedures
The Bondi Beach massacre makes both Jews and Muslims feel less safe
Jews and Muslims now feel less safe against a backdrop that was already volatile
Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner faces life sentence for sedition
Three charges of sedition and foreign collusion carry a maximum sentence of life in prison
New Chilean leader faces task of keeping good terms with both US and China
José Antonio Kast, who won Sunday’s presidential election, is ideologically aligned with Trump, but China is Chile’s biggest trading partner