To understand front-line economics, consider trade with Russia, investor uncertainty, defence spending and consumer attitudes ...

T o grasp the ambition behind Africa’s new oil and gas exploration, consider three projects under way at TotalEnergies, a French supermajor. In Uganda it is building the worlds ...

The initial rungs that workers climb towards white-collar warfare are not codified. But they bear a clear resemblance to some of the steps that Kahn identified when he thought about conflict among ...

Faced with this carnival, President Emmanuel Macron on October 6th asked Sébastien Lecornu, a close centrist confidant whom ...

I’ve kicked bags of garbage in New York as part of a rat safari and you just watch rats go flying,” says Kaylee Byers, an expert on urban rats at the University of British Columbia. “A rat runs across ...

It is not the first time Brazil has profited from Trumpian trade conflict. The same thing happened when Mr Trump yanked up tariffs on China in his first term. The proportion of China’s vast market for ...

Mr Babis is no ideologue, but ANO does not have a majority in parliament, and centrist parties have refused to join it in a ...

Mr Vought has urged the government to use the shutdown as an opportunity to fire thousands of federal workers and gut federal ...

Compared with China’s existing visa categories, the new “ K visa” offers holders longer durations of stay, more entries and a simplified application process. In contrast to the H-1B, the Chinese ...

The five-year plan they eventually release in March will be the 15th since the party gained power in 1949. Titanic in size, ...

Since Brexit the Tories have practised big-government conservatism, due to a combination of electoral opportunism and, during the covid-19 pandemic, necessity. It is also a break with Ms Badenoch’s ...

In January they arrived in Sheraro, a town in northern Tigray that hosts thousands of other refugees from the western zone ...