Serbia has all the trappings of a democracy. It does not lock up journalists for what they write. Yet in dozens of ways it ...

Yet Ethiopia’s crisis is also intertwined with the civil war in Sudan and the rivalries between the external powers that have ...

It seemed like a political opportunity for Mr Orban, who faces an election in April: he usually casts himself as the defender ...

In March last year it seemed that Mr Trump’s canal issues might be resolved with a commercial transaction. A consortium of ...

They ought now to stiffen these further by using congressional oversight to undo more of the damage Mr Trump and his team are ...

One reason is that Britain’s police barely solve any crimes. In 2015 the share of offences resulting in a charge or summons ...

But closer inspection shows it to be fiscal fool’s gold: the sums are overstated, the damage to central-bank independence ...

Press freedom is in retreat worldwide. Since 2014 the global score on an index devised by Reporters Without Borders ( RSF ), a watchdog, has deteriorated from no worse than it is in America today to ...

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But what if it ain’t really working in the first place? That is the question that has long ...

But its spread from the extremist fringe towards the mainstream illustrates how far-right groups are extending their ...

For years, British governments have hewed to the logic that a light-touch labour market brings investment and low ...

On the day it did, Israel allowed just five patients and seven relatives to leave (around 20,000 Gazans need urgent medical treatment abroad). Of the 50 people registered to return to Gaza that day, ...