MANILA, Philippines — Career British diplomat Sarah Anne Hulton has been appointed as the new ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Philippines. Hulton, who will succeed Ambassador Laure Beaufils, is set to start her tour of duty in September. She will also be the UK’s non-resident envoy to Palau. Hulton, who first joined the…
To the Editor: Re “Trump Pauses Many Tariffs for 90 Days, but Not on China” (front page, April 10): I wonder what President Trump has learned, if anything, from his tariff escapade. An ordinary person would be abashed, ashamed and relieved that he was able to escape — at least temporarily — so quickly from…
Hw cn brnds sty cl? Nt by drpping vwls, one of Britain’s biggest investment firms concluded this week, when it announced it was adding back the “e’s” to its name four years after dropping them. The 200-year-old company is now called aberdeen group, effectively reversing a decision to rebrand as abrdn in 2021 in a…
The Trump administration has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, but most of the body of water lies outside maritime regions controlled by the United States. Maritime claims in the Gulf of Mexico Source: Sovereign Limits By Zach Levitt According to calculations by Sovereign Limits, a database of international boundaries, the…
Francisco Javier Remes Sánchez was puzzled as he watched President Trump sign an executive order last week renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America as part of his pledge to honor “American greatness.” “That man talks a lot and we have no choice but to defend Mexico,” said Mr. Remes Sánchez, 52,…