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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 balance of power in oil markets may shift again. For a while, once the Gulf crisis abates, there could be a “superglut” ...
The European Union publishes revised estimates of the bloc’s second-quarter GDP on Friday alongside new employment data. A ...
Yet surely European integration is about more than summits and regulation (right?). Those who make Europe feel like a single ...
V ladimir Putin will not end his war on Ukraine until he believes the costs of fighting on exceed the costs of stopping. The ...
Business leaders can be naive when it comes to politics. It was a mistake for them to cheerlead for Labour before the most ...
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 ...
The first is Japan’s shortage of risk-taking venture capital. A decade ago traditional vc funds were rare. In 2015 only $1bn ...
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it to direct the United States Postal Service to oversee mail-in ballots. Mr Trump has falsely linked their use to fraudulent voting. It is ...
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 ...