Sunday Times Foreign

News, commentary and thoughts from The Sunday Times foreign desk and our team of foreign correspondents around the world

[Times Politics @timespolitics]

As one of the British military planes took off from Kabul, Marwa, sitting on the floor of the jet, asked her mother, a former member of Afghanistan’s parliament, if she could sit by the window

#TimesChristmasAppeal

https://t.co/gxgTpS2b6R

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

@louiseelisabet visited Libya's magnificent Leptis Magna to find out. Read it here 👇

https://t.co/u8ZHDCphKC

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

Tourism used to play an important role in Libya’s economy and cultural heritage. Could Libya, as the pandemic recedes around the world, become a new frontier for adventurous travellers?

Or will its ancient treasures be looted and destroyed before the world gets to see them?

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

Standing at the feet of presidents past Trump declared war - on cancel culture

Our Washington Bureau Chief @joshglancy reports

https://t.co/ZxjSUhG8mD

[Josh Glancy @joshglancy]

Washington fought the British empire, Lincoln the confederacy. Last night at Mount Rushmore Trump declared his own grand civilisational struggle: a war on cancel culture.

My @thesundaytimes report

https://t.co/t6I4cyGRQq

[Josh Glancy @joshglancy]

EXCLUSIVE

Dr Fauci weighs in on the debate about protests and the pandemic.

Says he is "very concerned" about the spread of the virus and calls protests the "perfect recipe" for a resurgence.

My @thesundaytimes story

https://t.co/FoZDTXyMak

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

Hunger bites Iranians who see their blood and treasure being spent abroad, writes @louiseelisabet.

Read it here:
https://t.co/eTKxwzrOlv

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

"Why are Danes so happy?"

A not very complex mystery solved by @themichaelbooth in his diary from a Denmark leaving lockdown

https://t.co/caBfshfifo

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

Stranded at sea, thousands of crew find themselves with no choice but to cruise on ghost ships while waiting to go home, reports @spencemad

Read it here:
https://t.co/EA769rTv4I

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

Hong Kong pro-democracy activists prepare for Beijing's iron fist to fall.

@philipsherwell and @claraip_ report.

https://t.co/apz40meXs4

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

Is the far right hijacking Germany's lockdown unrest? @Peter_Conradi asks. Read it here:

https://t.co/FQMBNQ27LC

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

@louiseelisabet meets the the man behind Sweden's lack of lockdown and a flurry of new fan tattoos, Anders Tegnell: the rock star epidemiologist.

Read it here:
https://t.co/htlKT0nrkU

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

“I am a living, breathing monument of what the American dream is about”

Our Washington Bureau Chief @joshglancy spoke to firebrand congresswoman Ilhan Omar about the bumpy road from war-torn Somalia to The United States Congress

https://t.co/NL9t5IjkMj

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

American's rush to arm themselves in preparation for pandemic unrest, @LFPullman
reports from Toms River

https://t.co/2JDOh2cvRn

[christinalamb @christinalamb]

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[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

@joshglancy talks to @FukuyamaFrancis about "cold war II" as Trump allies speak of China "menace"

Read it here: https://t.co/ai8Yxu1A87

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

A facelift for a month in the Hamptons and other bribes...

Lockdown desperation begins to show on the faces of the New York elite, writes @LFPullman

https://t.co/SFLHFiwYeZ

[Sunday Times Foreign @STForeign]

The "saddest day in Hong Kong history" as new law sounds death knell for "one country, two systems"

@philipsherwell reports with @claraip_

https://t.co/apz40meXs4

[Josh Glancy @joshglancy]

Ilhan Omar was just asked about her comments in my @TheSTMagazine interview on Good Morning America.

Her response:

https://t.co/KfgbxWuNhK

[Philip Sherwell @philipsherwell]

Dismay and defiance in Hong Kong as activists cover their tracks and call for new protests against #CCPSecurity Law. My report with @claraip_ for @STForeign on HK’s ‘saddest day’. But @euanrellie warns China is ‘playing with fire’ on investments
https://t.co/llUiJomjEA