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Anyone trying to understand why Yvette Cooper studiously avoided saying whether the UK viewed the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro as a breach of international law only needs to look to what was planned in Paris a day later. After the foreign secretary’s 90-minute humiliation in the House of Commons on Monday night, a joint statement…
Keir Starmer has got used to walking a diplomatic tightrope with Donald Trump. But the US president’s Venezuelan adventure, whisking its leader out of the country after a late-night raid, has pushed that cautious approach to its limits. The clues were all there. Ever since Trump confirmed that he had authorised the CIA to conduct…
European leaders emerged divided and torn as they tried to welcome the ejection of Venezuela’s authoritarian president, but still uphold the principles of international law that did not appear to allow Donald Trump to seize Nicolás Maduro, let alone declare that the US will run Venezuela and control its oil industry. Europe tried to focus…
