For days Volodymyr Zelensky has been trying to work out a solution to a problem that is largely of his own making. On July ...

T he help China gives Russia in the war in Ukraine has long caused dismay in Western countries. Exports of ostensibly ...

F rom the late 1970s, as China moved away from central planning, the Communist Party picked four cities on the coast to be ...

The event, hosted by Liz Truss, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, was inspired by America’s influential Conservative ...

Oil prices surged after Houthi rebels struck two Saudi Arabian oil tankers in the Red Sea and Donald Trump threatened to ...

Forget the gibes about the old continent being a museum in which Europeans can live out their unambitious dolce vita. These ...

Ukraine’s attacks on refineries, which have caused fuel shortages across the country, were already bringing the war home. The ...

STANDING BEFORE an elaborate array of white flowers, Takaichi Sanae, Japan’s prime minister, delivered a speech at a memorial ...

I N HIS BOOK “Strategy of Denial”, published in 2021, Elbridge Colby argued that America’s armed forces were too stretched to ...

O n July 22nd Rheinmetall, Germany’s defence champion, broke ground on an expansion to its gunpowder factory in Bavaria, one ...

But he denies that the loot (including another $20m in cash), which was seized on July 8th in a police raid, had anything to ...

Yet no one has treated Lebanon worse than Lebanon’s own rulers. The past seven years have seen a financial crash caused by a ...