China’s president, Xi Jinping, likes to assert that the world is undergoing “changes unseen in one hundred years”. He borrowed the phrase from a Chinese political scientist named Yuan Peng, who first ...

Baloch separatists have long been seeking independence from Pakistan. Now, the exiled leaders of the movement are courting ...

Many members of the Israeli establishment vehemently oppose what is happening in the West Bank. You wouldn’t know it from the ...

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As the party’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt shows, blocking the far right from coalition government is not the same as defeating ...

Particularly since Iceland is already in the EU’s single market and Schengen, so its fish—and its people—can circulate freely ...

T he prime minister’s issue, so far in his short time in office, has been the cost of living. He has, among other measures, ...

Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, sceptics are still making their voices heard—helped by ...

The intimidation inflicted by Israeli settlers on villages like Umm al-Khair makes clear why Palestinians believe ...

Is it fair to criticise a nonfiction book for what it doesn’t include? Most would argue that it isn’t unless the omissions materially alter the subject being tackled. And this is where Lissa Evans’s ...

At times, I have wished I knew less about the suffering to wildlife. But despair is something I can’t afford—not least ...