Simon Marks

2 days ago | inews.co.uk | Simon Marks

Will he or won’t he? The ball is again in President Vladimir Putin’s court, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he will travel to Istanbul on Thursday to see whether the Kremlin leader shows up. It was Putin’s hurried decision to offer up Istanbul as a venue for possible face-to-face talks with Ukraine that led Zelensky to take the Kremlin’s bait.

2 days ago | rsn.org | Simon Marks

A long-simmering dispute between Sudan’s army and a paramilitary group exploded into a full-blown civil war in April 2023. At least 150,000 people may have been killed since then, according to US estimates, and the violence shows little sign of abating. Millions have fled their homes, leading to what the United Nations has described as the world’s biggest displacement crisis. Eclipsed by wars in Ukraine and Gaza, this is a humanitarian disaster that rarely makes headlines.

3 days ago | inews.co.uk | Simon Marks

WASHINGTON, DC: For a presidency with precious-little foreign policy expertise at its fingertips, the Trump administration wasted no time this weekend wading into possibly the most complex international thicket on the global map.

5 days ago | bloomberg.com | Simon Marks

Displaced Sudanese near the town of Tawila in North Darfur on Feb. 14, 2025. (Bloomberg) -- A long-simmering dispute between Sudan’s army and a paramilitary group exploded into a full-blown civil war in April 2023. At least 150,000 people may have been killed since then, according to US estimates, and the violence shows little sign of abating. Millions have fled their homes, leading to what the United Nations has described as the world’s biggest displacement crisis.

6 days ago | inews.co.uk | Simon Marks

If the Prime Minister’s first effort to win Donald Trump around came in the form of an “unprecedented” and “historic” invitation to make a second state visit to the UK, the special relationship between the two men was cemented on Thursday by their announcement of what the President is calling “an historic trade deal”. Trump hailed the agreement as “full and comprehensive”, claiming it marked the end of a 25-year process that had created what he called a “maxed out” deal between the two countries.