N othing was ever quaint,” mused Ken Burns in a New York film studio last spring, as he made some last edits to his latest ...

For 20 years residents of the Bolivian highlands have voted for the Movement to Socialism (MAS). Not any more. In August they ...

According to state media the party chief, Xi Jinping, first mentioned political swindlers publicly in 2023 when he demanded a ...

For the first time since 2001, Italy’s GDP per capita has overtaken that of the United Kingdom,” Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of ...

The trigger was the election on October 4th of Takaichi Sanae, a hardline conservative, as the LDP’s new leader. Following ...

The Dutch were prompted in part by fears that Mr Zhang was undermining Nexperia in favour of his Chinese companies, and in ...

In her new book she traces the tumultuous history of Afghanistan as it has been experienced at the Hotel InterContinental ...

The saga began in 2018 when Utahns passed a ballot measure to establish a citizen redistricting commission that would advise ...

For Palestinians in Gaza all this has echoes of Israel’s withdrawal in 2005. Their leaders promised to turn the strip into ...

O n October 6th the prime ministers of Australia and Papua New Guinea stood side by side, buffeted by gusts of westerly wind ...

The First Brands debacle shows why. First Brands is hardly a capital-markets backwater. Look at the roll call of institutions ...

He offered a “heartfelt apology” to the victims of Japan’s “colonial rule and aggression” in Asia. Ahead of the 70th ...