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Donald Trump is known for his readiness to file civil claims against his perceived enemies

Trump firm sues Washington Post for $3.78bn in damages

Donald Trump’s media company has filed a $3.78 billion damages claim against The Washington Post, accusing it of...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 4.30am, The Times

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and chief executive, with Sir Nick Clegg, right, president of global affairs, who has said the company will appeal

Meta fined €1.2bn over EU privacy rule breach

Meta, the owner of Facebook, has been fined a record €1.2 billion for breaching European Union data privacy rules...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Technology Business Editor

Putting power in private hands for clean energy race stores up trouble

The publication of the belated national semiconductor strategy last week was as disappointing as it was late.

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Black, single and a man of faith — the senator who wants the White House

Tim Scott has launched his campaign to become the first black Republican president, joining an increasingly crowded...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, North Charleston

Will Putin use nuclear weapons? Russia’s options explained

The destruction and enormous casualty toll suffered during the long battle for the city of Bakhmut has underlined...

Monday May 22 2023, 8.50pm, The Times

Clashes broke out at a border checkpoint near Kozinka after the operation

Ukraine-backed partisans ‘invade Russia and seize villages’

Troops entered Russia from Ukraine on Monday, hitting checkpoints on the border with tank fire and pushing eight...

Monday May 22 2023, 6.30pm, The Times

Pyotr Kucherenko had allegedly voiced criticism of the war to a journalist months before his death

Russian minister dies in mysterious circumstances after criticising Ukraine war

A Russian deputy minister has died from an unexplained cause several months after he allegedly criticised the...

Monday May 22 2023, 3.30pm, The Times

Samantha Berkhead

It is still unclear who is responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines

Germans suspect Ukraine blew up Nord Stream pipelines

German investigators are sceptical of claims that Russian naval ships sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines and...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.30pm, The Times

Suella Braverman on a visit to Rwanda in March, where the home secretary wants to relocate Channel migrants

UN’s ‘hypocrisy’ over Rwanda flights case

The Home Office has accused the UN of hypocrisy over its Rwanda deportation plan in a fresh row between the Britain...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Home Affairs Editor

Ukrainian servicemen near the front line in Bakhmut on Friday

Bakhmut is still in our hands, says Zelensky

President Zelensky has rejected Russia’s claim to have captured Bakhmut and the Ukrainian army said it was...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Kyiv | Aliide Naylor

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT

Hezbollah’s military parade sends familiar message to Israel

Who knew Hezbollah had a marching band? I certainly didn’t, but that may have been my ignorance: the Lebanese Shia...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Richard Spencer

, Aaramta, southern Lebanon

Esports events such as the Counter Strike: Global Offensive tournament can draw huge audiences

France takes lead in battle with Britain for esports supremacy

It is an age-old rivalry but with a 21st-century twist. Britain and France are competing to win over the world’s...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a prominent anti-Kremlin businessman, hosted an event in Berlin attended by two Russian dissidents

German police investigate possible poisoning of Russian dissidents

German police are investigating whether two Russian dissidents who attended a meeting in Berlin last month were...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Olaf Scholz in the Bundestag with his battered bag, which he also uses for government business abroad

Rivals vie to bag Scholz’s old satchel

For 40 years Olaf Scholz has carried around the same leather satchel containing briefing notes, reading glasses...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

President Biden is attending the G7 summit in Hiroshima where he has told of his frustration at the stalemate over the debt ceiling

Biden decries Republicans in debt row

President Biden has said Republicans must move from their “extreme position” on negotiating a raise on the debt...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Keiran Southern

Latvian politicians claim that Michael Barclay de Tolly “symbolises Russian imperialism”

Latvians call for Putin’s Scottish hero to be toppled

He is the “Scot” who drove Napoleon out of Russia, a tsarist field marshal whose roots lay in Aberdeenshire but who...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

ROHAN BANERJEE | RED BOX

Football is a new front in Russia’s battle for rehabilitation

Russia’s pariah status is less pronounced in the East. While President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has led to...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.00am, The Times

For Brexiteers such as Nigel Farage, “controlling migration” meant reducing it

Has leaving the EU left Britain any better off?

Britain now controls who comes in to the country, meaning there is no more free movement across our borders for 447...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Nigel Farage while speaking during a conservative conference in America in 2020

Readers’ poll: Was leaving the EU a mistake?

Almost seven years after the UK voted to leave the European Union, Brexit still looms over the political debate. On...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

IRWIN STELZER | AMERICAN ACCOUNT

Will King Dollar still reign over us?

Long Live the King. No, not King Charles, King Dollar, which Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin know must be dethroned...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times