Paul Nuki

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Paul Nuki

The US and others, including the UK and France, announced deep cuts to international aid spending in January, causing deaths, medicine and equipment shortages and thousands of clinic closures and lay-offs across the developing world. Altogether about $50 billion in aid is expected to vanish from the global system over the next two years, sparking an urgent scramble to restructure health systems globally.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Paul Nuki

A formal vote was forced by Slovakia's vaccine sceptic prime minister Robert Fico who last month stopped purchases of Covid-19 vaccines after a party colleague claimed they turn people into "genetically modified organisms" without their knowledge. Yet in the end, 124 countries voted in favour late on Monday evening, while 11, including Poland, Israel, Italy, Russia, Slovakia and Iran abstained. None voted against.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Paul Nuki

The Gulf states have shown President Donald Trump what the future could hold. Serene palaces joined by lavender carpets and immaculately appointed jumbo jets. Peace at the geographic centre of the world. “Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts and tired divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos”, he told his Saudi hosts on Tuesday.

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Paul Nuki

You would have to go back to before the Iranian revolution in 1979 and the overthrow of the Shah to find an American president to talk of partnerships with Iran. But bombast is not enough and avoiding neo-con style interventions is not the same as sitting on your hands. The ceasefire in Gaza collapsed in March because Trump and his administration were overstretched, distracted and not across the detail.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Paul Nuki

It’s a funny old world. One day Britain agrees to pay for an Indian Ocean base for the US military at a cost of £90m a year for the next 99 years, and the next America slaps a random 10 per cent tariff on everything we sell, rising to 25 per cent for cars and steel. The proposed leasing of Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos archipelago, quickly caught the attention of Dame Priti Patel, the shadow Foreign Secretary.