E urope’s liberals breathed a sigh of relief when Tusk returned to power. He was Poland’s prime minister between 2007 and ...

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The circumstances under which Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk assumed control of Ukraine’s ground forces in February could hardly have been less auspicious. The president was publicly feuding ...

The women—with names like Natasha and Sofia—speak fluent Mandarin. They complain that Russian men are drunk and lazy, while ...

Strong feelings have thus made the war a political challenge in ways that are connected, but also vary from country to ...

C onsidering the recent pattern of American politics, the Republicans’ choice to hold their convention this July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is no surprise. Barack Obama easily won the state twice, but ...

The other is the long-threatened Israeli offensive in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, now home to 1.5m people displaced from elsewhere in the enclave. It was a stark choice: either a deal to ...

But walk inside and you find yourself in the headquarters of the air-defence battalion of Ukraine’s legendary 92nd assault brigade. It is currently fighting in Chasiv Yar, the most intense part of the ...

The final challenge is climate change. Singapore knows all about physical constraints: 20% of its land is reclaimed and it imports much of its water. But as a low-lying island it faces a shrinking ...

M any families with children were clamouring to get back to in-person learning during the covid-19 pandemic. But many pupils were less eager to do so, and some still have yet to properly return.

For a long time the Greens attracted people who “weren’t interested in power”, says Sir Jonathon Porrit, an environmentalist and party luminary. The party’s constitution, in turn, has given those ...

With the rise of globalisation southern politicians made the region competitive by keeping unions out and holding wages down. Right-to-work laws, which let workers opt out of paying union dues, ...