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Foreign ministers from the G7 group of rich nations backed giving more aid and weapons to Ukraine as they met on Friday in what Germany called a "powerful sign of unity" to deepen Russia's global isolation for invading its neighbor. The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced a…

Retired Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva is widely reported to be Putin's mistress

The Foreign Secretary said she was taking aim at the ‘shady network propping up’ the Russian president’s luxury lifestyle.

Last week I spent an hour on Zoom in conversation with two remarkable, brave women. The editor of the Kyiv Independent, Olga Rudenko, is on the front of Time magazine this week as one of their “next generation leaders”. Her passionate chief executive Daryna Shevchenko, whose phone was constantly blasting…

Growing signs of alarm in Washington at Boris Johnson’s apparent readiness to tear up deal

Former Brexit minister says UK ‘cannot be defeated’ by Brussels in provocative Telegraph column

The Northern Ireland Assembly has begun to sit for the first time since the May 5 election

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Friday that it was vital to keep up the pressure on Russia by supplying more weapons to Ukraine and imposing further sanctions.

In today’s newsletter: two years after Brexit, Sinn Féin’s rise has the Northern Ireland protocol is back in the news – the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent Rory Carroll tells Nimo Omer why