EPA/Jerome Favre
Beijing’s plans for Hong Kong aren’t going down well with all its post-colonial subjects.
EPA/M.A. Pushpa Kumara
The empire’s formal structures may have been gutted, but its influence lives on.
Diplomacy in action.
EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo
Despite talking up her visit to the White House, the British PM has been remarkably quiet on the biggest issue of the moment.
Just keep smiling!
PA/Stefan Rousseau
It’s all smiles as two leaders meet for the first time, but it’ll take more than warm words to navigate the choppy waters ahead.
Keeping it clean.
EPA/Dennis Brack
The UK has yet to properly grapple with its past complicity in prisoner abuses and torture.
Thatcher meets Mandela after his release in 1990.
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To get Nelson Mandela released and save Namibia’s independence elections, Thatcher proposed a massive aid programme.
Passions run high in Buenos Aires.
EPA/Cezaro de Luca
The decades-old dispute in the South Atlantic is the third rail of Argentine politics – and Mauricio Macri has blithely tripped over it.
High hopes.
EPA/Mohamed Messara
The UK went into Libya with gusto – but ended up in a morass of mission creep and bad planning.
I can’t understand a word you’re saying, François.
PA/Stefan Rousseau
The decision to delay a major nuclear deal has ruffled feathers in Beijing. Is this a sign of the new PM’s approach to international relations?
Get stuck in.
EPA/Dan Kitwood
As the world picks over the Iraq Inquiry’s final report, three fascinating character portraits have emerged.
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The War on Terror-era programme of clandestine abductions and detentions wasn’t just an American initiative.
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Uncertainty over aid and trade will accompany new power struggles between Britain and the Commonwealth.
EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga
Intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was a core part of the case for war. The Chilcot Report has examined how it came to be so distorted.
‘Just a warning – it’s quite long…’
EPA/Dan Kitwood
From faulty intelligence and inadequate oversight to disastrously poor planning, the Iraq War was a mess from the start.
EPA/Eric Draper
Tony Blair insists to this day that his decision to go to war in Iraq was made in good faith. Does that make him any less culpable?
All falling down.
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Membership of the EU guarantees Britain’s political power in Europe and beyond.
What’s he saying about me?
EPA/Michael Reynolds
Barack Obama’s dour disappointment with Europe is far more powerful than his worries about a Brexit.
Yemenis have lived under the shadow of drones for years.
EPA/Yahya Arhab
The US has been mounting semi-secret drone strikes in Yemen for years – and it seems the UK has been deeply involved.
There must be another way.
Reuters/Enrique Marcarian
With the theatrics of the Kirchner years finally over, Argentina and the Falklands can start to defrost their relationship.
Supporters of Robert Mugabe campaign ahead of the February 1980 election.
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British diplomats put their money on the wrong man after the Lancaster House agreement.