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Merz meets Trump in biggest diplomatic test to date

1 day 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".
Is Trump’s planned Iran nuclear deal on the verge of collapse?

2 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.
Can South Korea's new President end six months of political chaos?

3 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.
The challenge to fund Britain's 10-year defence plan

4 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.
Hamas "reviews" US ceasefire proposal as last hospital in North Gaza closes

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.
Reform surge in Scotland won’t strengthen the Union

1 week ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

When the voters of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse go to the polls on Thursday, it will be a test not just of local opinion but a verdict on SNP-run Scotland, in the approach to next year’s Scottish elections. No wonder First Minister John Swinney is worried. The Holyrood seat, held since its creation in 2011 by the Nationalists, has become a two-way contest between the SNP and Reform, with the latter quite likely to win its first Scottish foothold.
Biggest threat to Trump's tariff comes from within

1 week ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

“It is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency," fumed the White House today after a US federal court blocked Donald Trump’s sweeping set of tariffs, in a humiliating blow to the US President’s signature economic policy. The Court of International Trade has ruled that the US President’s imposition of tariffs was illegal and given the White House ten days to formally reverse them.
Berlin steps up as Ukraine prepares for new Russian offensive

1 week ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

Russia has amassed around 50,000 troops near Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region ahead of a planned large-scale offensive, warned Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky today from Berlin, where he held an “emergency meeting” with his German counterpart, Friedrich Merz. Sumy lies across the border from Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces held chunks of land after they launched their cross-border incursion back in August, before being largely driven out last month.
Germany delivers strongest criticism of Israel to date

1 week ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

German chancellor Friedrich Merz has delivered his strongest criticism of Israel to date, as he denounced its relentless bombardments on Gaza as “no longer comprehensible”. "The massive military strikes by the Israelis in the Gaza Strip no longer reveal any logic to me - how they serve the goal of confronting terror," said Merz, speaking today from Finland.
Alan Yentob showed why the arts merit a place in mainstream programming

1 week ago | reaction.life | Adam Boulton

Alan Yentob, who has just died at the age of 78, embodied BBC arts programming for more than forty years as a television producer and director, as a BBC executive and spokesman, and ultimately as a presenter of the Imagine documentary series between 2003 and 2023. Alan got to know everybody in the media world and wasn’t shy about it. There was no doubt which particular “Mick” he was on his way to see, when we bumped into each other in an airport lounge.