But the most sweeping, controversial and influential has been Britain’s law, which was passed in 2023 and has been slowly ...

Millions of Cubans depend on remittances from some of their 3m-plus relatives abroad. Or, increasingly, they join the private ...

F or five years, observers of Middle East politics in Washington have tried to guess who would next join the Abraham accords, ...

As well as relying more on the Chinese state for credit, rich countries are emulating its style of lending, writes Bradley ...

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A HUGE CORRUPTION scandal is turning into Ukraine’s biggest crisis since Russian tanks bore down on Kyiv in early 2022.

Russia’s repressive justice machine has taken a break from its usual diet of intellectuals, opposition politicians and lgbt ...

This would not be the first time that public-health experts have prematurely celebrated the peak of America’s obesity crisis.

As with a theme-park ride, dealing with Mr Trump and his unconventional administration requires a sturdy stomach and a hard ...

CHINA HAS become one of the world’s biggest bankers and donors. But its financial influence overseas is hard to track. Its government has a “transparency allergy”, says Brad Parks of AidData, a ...