Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
Twelve days of stupefaction: what next?
Those sickened at the spectacle of sycophancy that has been impossible to escape need only keep one thing in mind — there is no way King Charles III will evoke the support enjoyed by his predecessor, writes DAWN EVANS
King Charles III follows the State Gun Carriage carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, as it leaves Westminster Hall for the State Funeral at Westminster Abbey, London.
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
SO, it is all over bar the mopping up, which of course will be left to the army of invisible labourers which no-one will interview, film, clap or queue to see.
As the ranks of medal-festooned royals slink back to their secretive, shadowy, exclusive lairs where they’ll throw off their fake smiles and public-persona masks and slump into a pampered oblivion, the rest of the British populace will start to emerge from the weird 12 day through-the-looking-glass stupor; and face a reality hangover from hell.
Some may wonder as they groggily surface: “What the hell just happened?”
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