Today
The refinery standing between Germany and a Russian oil embargo
A Russian-owned refinery, linked to a Soviet-era pipeline, is a reminder of Germany’s past and a stumbling block to efforts to cut off Russian oil.
- Melissa Eddy
- Opinion
- Global economy
Is the world’s financial system about to crash? This expert thinks so
It is entering dangerous waters again, warns Columbia professor and author Adam Tooze, a rising star of the Davos circuit and a guru of the Lehman crisis.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Ukraine war set to unleash world food crisis
Worries about the worldwide social and economic impact of the Russia-Ukraine war dominate the first day at Davos.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Yesterday
Ukraine rules out territorial concessions, as Russia steps up attacks
Russia has stepped up its pounding of the Donbas and Mykolaiv regions with air strikes and artillery fire to win control of the eastern front.
- Conor Humphries and Max Hunder
Manchester City win Premier League in incredible comeback
No wonder thousands of Manchester City fans flooded onto the football field at the final whistle, defying new orders against pitch invasions.
- Rob Harris
This Month
French foreign minister rejoices in Morrison’s loss
Scott Morrison’s decision to cancel the French submarine project showed “brutality and cynicism”, according to Jean-Yves Le Drian.
- Albertina Torsoli
In biggest victory yet, Russia claims to capture Mariupol
Ukraine forces surrender to an unknown fate after holding out in beseiged steel plant for three months.
- Elena Becatoros, Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Ciaran McQuillan
Putin fires general for Ukraine failures in latest purge
Britain’s Ministry of Defence said Russia has recently fired senior commanders who are considered to have performed poorly during the Ukraine invasion.
- James Kilner
Can a depleted Davos still deliver the goods?
There are fewer big-hitting world leaders and CEOs, and almost no Australians or Chinese, at this year’s out-of-season alpine gathering of the global elite.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Cost-of-living assistance inflationary, warns UK treasurer
Rishi Sunak and PM Boris Johnson face growing pressure to announce new policies to ease a squeeze on living standards, with inflation running at its highest rate in 40 years.
- Joe Mayes
Turkey and Hungary strongmen stall unity in NATO and EU
Leaders of Turkey and Hungary are using the requirement for consensus in both NATO and the EU to get their domestic political concerns addressed.
- Steven Erlanger and Matina Stevis-Gridneff
EU admits it will burn more coal as it tries to ditch Russian energy
The 27-member bloc has released a $315 billion plan to step up its shift to renewables and hydrogen, as it attempts to decouple from Russian energy supplies.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- NATO
What are Sweden and Finland thinking?
Abandoning a long and successful policy of neutrality is a big step, but Vladimir Putin’s decision to go to war left the countries’ leaders with little choice.
- Stephen Walt
Vladimir Putin, family man: why nothing is secret any more
As Western nations place sanctions on family members and people close to the Russian leader, they are lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding his private life.
- Jason Horowitz
With eye on left voters, Macron names a woman prime minister
The French president opted for an experienced technocrat from the political left to take charge of the domestic agenda for his second term.
- Norimitsu Onishi and Aurelien Breeden
Russia’s supply lines wide open as Ukrainians reach border
Ukraine’s artillery is free to strike the invaders’ supply lines in Russia after a counterattack near Kharkiv took its troops to the frontier.
- Joe Barnes, Dominic Nicholls and Nataliya Vasilyeva
The great de-arching: McDonald’s to sell Russia business, exit country
The burger giant confirmed it is selling its 850 restaurants in Russia, the first time the company has ever ‘de-arched’, or exited a major market.
- David Koenig and Dee-Ann Durbin
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Russia learns a hard lesson about the folly of war
Russia is likely to emerge from the war in Ukraine poorer, weaker and greatly diminished. Vladimir Putin’s war is not just a crime. It is also a mistake.
- Gideon Rachman
- Analysis
- World elections
Blow for Scholz as party loses key German state poll
The German chancellor’s party has lost an election in the country’s most populous state, seen as a referendum on his response to the crisis in Ukraine.
- Updated
- Andrew McCathie
- Analysis
- Russia-Ukraine war
In rebirth for NATO, Europe unites in face of Putin’s ambition
In a new Europe, there is no more in-between space. Countries are either protected by NATO or they are on their own against Russia.
- Roger Cohen
