Process is a worthy means to an end,” wrote Sir Tony Blair in “On Leadership”, a self-help book for people who think they should run G7 countries. “The trouble is its tendency to become the end.” The ...

With the economic outlook so bleak, time is not on Russia’s side. So far Mr Putin has prioritised his war against Ukraine ...

Other fires erupted here and there across the foothills and valleys of greater Los Angeles. Pasadena, a city in the northeast ...

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For all that, it is just possible that some messages will get through. Mr Trump’s chosen national security adviser, Mike Waltz, has been talking intensively to the incumbent, Jake Sullivan. Mr Trump ...

The Gulf’s rulers want to do better than that. Beset with the rising urgency to diversify their economies away from fossil ...

The scheme is modelled partly on that of London, where since 2003 a daily charge (currently £15, or $19) has reduced the number of cars, improved air quality and funded transit upgrades. New York’s ...

In a poll on January 5th of the 50 favourite French public figures, the only politicians who featured were Ms Le Pen and ...

Some speculate that Frelimo is instigating chaos as an excuse to crack down. Security forces have killed around 300 people ...

The real worry is that Austria exemplifies the Putinisation of central Europe. First came Viktor Orban, the strongman of ...

It is not young kids driving the demand but “kidults” (those aged 12 and above). Kidults now account for over a quarter of ...

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