A S HE SPEEDS down Zalaeherseh Street in Kherson, Artem, a Ukrainian soldier, points to blown-out apartments and debris. “The ...

First, they hope to show Mr Trump and his allies that there are plenty of people unhappy with how his second term is ...

In Japan the triple yasu was associated with national decline. Yet a flight from all American assets represents a far greater ...

Sir Keir Starmer revels in the industrial nostalgia. The prime minister calls Britain’s steelworks a part of the “heritage of ...

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P EOPLE ARE dying for clean air. According to the most recent estimates from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation ...

The figures are drawn from our “footloose index”, a ranking of 135 countries and territories based on their attractiveness to ...

The hedge funds’ need for leverage brings in the last two actors in the story: money-market funds and the Treasury market’s ...

But in CAR, where it is led by Prigozhin’s former right-hand man, Dmitri Sytyi, it is still known as Wagner – and its forces ...

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Their huge endowments are not easy to cash in ...

Consider AI ’s appetite for energy first. The International Energy Agency ( IEA) reckons that electricity consumption by data ...