Caitlin Allen

2 days ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

Germany’s new Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, became the latest leader to brave a potential Oval Office ambush today as he arrived in Washington for his first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump. The public part of their meeting appeared fairly unfiery. Merz politely told Trump he wanted more pressure on Russia to end the war, insisting the US is in a strong position to bring the conflict to an end. Trump in turn likened the war Putin is waging in Ukraine to "two children fighting in a park".

3 days ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

“Who are you to tell us whether we should have a nuclear program or not?” declared Iran’s supreme leader today, in comments directed at President Trump that suggest Tehran is on the brink of rejecting the US proposal for a nuclear agreement. In his first public remarks since Washington proposed the outline of a deal over the weekend, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei labelled the Trump administration “rude and arrogant”, effectively rejecting its key demand: “We won’t stop enriching uranium”, he insisted.

4 days ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

South Koreans “have made a fiery judgement against the insurrection regime”, declared the country’s new President, Lee Jae-myung, this evening, after voters flocked to the polls in record numbers to draw a line under Seoul’s biggest political crisis in decades. South Korea has elected a new leader six months after former Conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol made the ill-fated decision to declare martial law, sparking a constitutional crisis and leaving his People Power Party in tatters.

5 days ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

“The front line, if you like, is here,” said Keir Starmer today, who insisted that Britain’s defence spending priorities for the next decade, laid out in a long-awaited document, will allow the UK to deliver “peace through strength”. The PM has, however, refused to commit to a date for reaching the government’s 3 per cent defence spending target.

1 week ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

The closure of the last functioning hospital in North Gaza has "severed a critical lifeline for the people there", warned WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus today, after the al-Awda hospital’s director confirmed that all patients have been evacuated. According to Dr Mohammed Salha, the hospital faced heavy bombing and shooting from Israeli tanks yesterday and the evacuation occurred last night after seven hours of negotiations with the Israeli military.