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Poland has joined a French-led attempt to block an EU free trade deal with Latin American countries that Brussels casts as essential to boosting economic ties at a time of rising global trade tensions. archive.ph/5uSvc#select...

Put simply, Trump loves trade wars but is generally scornful of military ones. archive.ph/WUH5w#select...

For the US president-elect, tariffs aren’t just trade policy as such. They are also a form of geopolitical leverage. archive.ph/4QXNG#select...

What actually threatens EV transition is that the product doesn't come up to scratch and many apartment dwellers have no economic way of charging an EV. archive.ph/H2mHh

“All platforms in the EU . . . have to have a dedicated page on their website where it says how many users they have in the EU and where they are legally established,” said commission spokesman Thomas Regnier. archive.ph/md2Sn

Deeply embedded in Cold War memory, the ICBM carries a particularly heavy historical payload for Britons since ours was the first country to suffer the impact of these infernal machines. archive.ph/qwOM4#select...

“I didn’t know what to do,” said Rezai-Karimi, 35, an analyst manager from Catford, southeast London. “All I remember is a hand touching my skin before it grabbed my phone.” I do ... Don't wander around Catford staring at your iPhone. archive.ph/XvgzU#select...

We all need an angle grinder more than a sack of potatoes ... archive.ph/IRpQg

A guide to royal fancy dress ... archive.ph/fQyIO

This sounds like a looming South Sea Bubble to me. #crypto archive.ph/ZL7L8

En Bretagne? J'ai dû trop écouter l'histoire des trois petits cochons ... reporterre.net/En-Bretagne-...

Israël a bombardé dans la nuit de mardi 9 à mercredi 10 octobre une église à Derdghaya, village chrétien dans le sud du Liban, faisant au moins huit morts dont cinq secouristes, terrorisant les déplacés réfugiés dans la paroisse. www.la-croix.com/internationa...

Among the public at large, a mere 2 per cent think that the members of the Conservative Party “seem like normal people”. As in, 98 per cent think they don’t. archive.ph/30dXo#select...

You couldn't make it up ... www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024...

So it is that a Parliamentary Party which still leans slightly Left of Conservative centre has put the most Right-wing of the available candidates into the final. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10...

A visit to McDonald's before defecting to the Ayatollahs ... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Western diplomats say neither Iran nor Hezbollah had been looped in on the timing or scale of the plan — something publicly confirmed by a US intelligence assessment, which said Iran had no “foreknowledge” of the attack. archive.ph/zhK99#select...

Le Pen wants to reverse Macron’s decision to increase the age at which workers can claim a full state pension from 62 to 64, for instance. Her niece takes the opposite stance and is in favour of making the French work longer. archive.ph/n1bR3#select...

"If Hamas had the chance they would kill all of us. Every Jew in Israel. And if they could get to me in Pinner they would. This is so completely and terrifyingly obvious, it is bewildering and frustrating that so many can’t see it." archive.ph/0cUYx#select...

Sometimes Trump has a point, because the unpredictability of a “madman leader” can make foreign adversaries hesitate. archive.ph/yycvu#select...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,110,282!

Sunak hits out at Irish plan to sue UK in ECHR for blocking Troubles probes www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...