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In the afterglow of his Christmas drinks at No 10, the PM looks back on a successful year and decides to make one more world-beating decision

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was in Tokyo to sign the joint agreement to progress building a next-generation stealth jet

Governments are already shifting gear on issues from Ukraine to the climate crisis – and the US election could change everything, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci

The two leaders now see each other as key allies, particularly over tackling small boats reaching European shores

The risk she could lose her children is driving Chiara and her family into self-imposed exile, away from Italy and a hard-right government hostile to same-sex parents.

Italy has withdrawn from China's vast Belt and Road infrastructure initiative, more than four years after becoming the only G7 nation to sign up to the strategy.

Decision of only G7 nation to join project reportedly communicated to Beijing three days ago

Italy's governing right-wing parties on Wednesday scuppered an attempt by the opposition to introduce a minimum wage, which would have brought the country into line with the majority of the EU. Members of parliament voted instead to give Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's hard-right government six months to enact measures to…

Tolkien’s hostility to rampant industrialisation should chime with the nations represented in Dubai

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reacted to a viral selfie his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni took with him on the sidelines of the COP28 meet in Dubai, saying “meeting friends is always a delight”.

Unrest in Dublin shocked many in a country seemingly untroubled by immigration. But as elsewhere in Europe, the far right is rising