Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron’s fiercest domestic rivals are standing by him in a fresh row with the government in Kyiv over his calls not to shame Russia. Tensions between France and Ukraine worsened over the weekend after Macron told a national newspaper that allies shouldn’t “humiliate” Moscow to improve the chance of reaching a peaceful solution to its invasion ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson sought to draw a line under the controversy that’s been threatening his leadership, though the scale of a mutiny against the British prime minister suggests his days may be numbered. The deep discontent within his Conservative Party was laid bare, when 211 Tory MPs backed Johnson in a confidence motion — but 148 voted against him. The ...

  Bloomberg The US hit back at China over a social media post claiming American officials in Guangzhou downplayed allegations of human rights abuses, saying the behaviour puts Washington’s envoys at risk. A spokesperson for the US Embassy in Beijing said that China should “stop attributing false statements to US officials or taking other actions that might subject our diplomats ...