All news by author: Mark Almond

IT is tempting to dismiss Vladimir Putin’s trip to North Korea as a symptom of just how isolated Russia is since it invaded Ukraine two years ago.If

ARE we on the brink of a devastating war in the Middle East — one that could spiral in to World War Three?Israel and Iran seem to be about to go hea

WHO would have thought when Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine went off the rails two years ago that Russia’s economy would today be growing fas

THE eruption of the brutal civil war in Sudan took everyone, including our own Foreign Office, by surprise.But we were not alone in having to improvis