John Prideaux, our US editor, considers the implications of a leaked phone call between American and Russian officials ...

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But on November 28th Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff became the most prominent casualty of a corruption scandal that continues to shake Ukraine, just as it faces grave diplomatic pressure from ...

Dalia Dassa Kaye is a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Centre for International Relations, director of its Initiative on ...

Certainly, the latest rounds of American bargaining and pressure on Ukraine are the most substantial yet. “This isn’t another ...

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The number of American cities on the robotaxi roadmap is rising fast. Alphabet-owned Waymo, which has the world’s biggest ...

This ad hoc leadership has emerged because it seems to work. It began to take root when Mr Merz took office in May, and after ...

Many Iranians point to mismanagement and corruption as the root of the economy’s difficulties. In front of billboards urging ...

In medicine, meanwhile, China has turned itself from a copycat maker of generics into the world’s second-largest developer of ...

King Maha Vajiralongkorn is the first Thai monarch to visit China since the two countries established diplomatic relations ...

Much of the continent’s eastern half would thus want Europe to isolate Russia yet more firmly. Many in its western half, in ...