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Yet prospects for democracy are improving. This week a first round of negotiations between Venezuela’s regime and opposition ...
Israeli troops launched a military operation to remove Israeli settlers from Qusra, a village in the West Bank. The settlers ...
The European Union publishes revised estimates of the bloc’s second-quarter GDP on Friday alongside new employment data. A ...
The balance of power in oil markets may shift again. For a while, once the Gulf crisis abates, there could be a “superglut” ...
Yet surely European integration is about more than summits and regulation (right?). Those who make Europe feel like a single ...
Japan was no doubt grateful. But it would be wrong to think of it as a helpless naïf. On the contrary, in teaming up with Japan’s government, America was joining forces with one of the biggest ...
V ladimir Putin will not end his war on Ukraine until he believes the costs of fighting on exceed the costs of stopping. The ...
Last year it overtook McDonald’s, the American burger giant, to become the world’s largest fast-food operator by number of locations. Mixue bought a controlling stake in Fulujia in October. Both are ...
Business leaders can be naive when it comes to politics. It was a mistake for them to cheerlead for Labour before the most ...
O NE boasts NATO’s second-largest army and a booming defence sector. Another is the Muslim world’s only nuclear power. And the third is the world’s eighth-biggest arms spend ...
The study, published in the Lancet, a British medical journal, offers the most comprehensive estimate to date of mental disorders’ prevalence in China, with 191m cases in 2023 (equivalent to about one ...