4 d. ago Trump claims US ‘armada’ is headed for Middle East as Iran death toll passes 5,000

US president says Washington watching Tehran closely, with ‘a lot of ships’ due to arrive in coming days

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4 d. ago Rupture or kerfuffle? Trump’s display in mad theatre of Davos has European heads in a spin

It may be premature to think the US-European bond has been severed by a president with a short attention span and plummeting domestic support

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4 d. ago Rupture or kerfuffle? Trump’s display in the mad theatre of Davos has European heads in a spin

It may be premature to think the US-European bond has been severed by a president with a short attention span and plummeting domestic support

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5 d. ago Deception and delusion in Davos: What's going on in Trump's head?

Bobby McDonagh says Trump’s threats over Greenland and other issues say far more about America’s crisis than Europe’s — but the consequences are ours to confront.

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6 d. ago Watch: Trump's opening remarks at Davos, says Europe is not heading in right direction

The US president has declared that Europe is not heading in the right direction.

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6 d. ago ‘Rupture, not a transition’: Canada PM Mark Carney tells Davos the ‘old order is not coming back’

A prominent US journalist remarked that Carney’s speech was ‘one of the best I’ve seen any politician deliver in a very long time’.

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6 d. ago Carney tells Davos the old world order is ‘not coming back’ as Trump heads to Switzerland

Canadian prime minister gives damning assessment of US president’s impact on global politics at World Economic Forum

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8 d. ago Tánaiste calls for ‘cool heads’ over Trump's threatened tariffs

US president Donald Trump has threatened tariffs with a ‘very significant destabilising effect’, Simon Harris has said

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8 d. ago Ireland pushes for 'cool heads' as EU looks to avoid Trump tariff war

US President Donald Trump announced new tariffs of 10% on eight European nations, but the UK and EU said they won’t be drawn into a tit-for-tat trade war.

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1 week ago From confusion to paranoia: firms struggle with Trump’s trade agenda

Putting your head above the parapet in Trump’s America risks sanction

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2 w. ago Lara Marlowe: Europe may have as little as 20 days to avert the irreparable. There are still things it can do

Head-spinning events of the past week indicate that either Trump is stark raving mad or the result of the greatest undercover coup in the history of Soviet intelligence

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