Since a peak in January 2025, the dollar has lost a tenth of its value against a broad basket of currencies. As a result, in ...

Their ranks will surely grow as lawyers, journalists and social-media addicts pore over Epstein’s emails. On February 4th the ...

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

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

The nine-member Presidential Transition Council that has officially been running Haiti over this period was supposed to steer ...

Such parties remain small: the biggest is the Japan Innovation Party (Ishin), with 34 seats in the 465-member lower chamber.

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

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 ...

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 ...

The other is the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ), led for years by the late Khaleda Zia, a former prime minister, and ...

Firms that can offer “quick fixes” to health concerns are in rude health. Yet such claims are unfounded, Dr Cohen notes, ...

Yet there is little evidence that today’s young adults are hiding from the world by playing cars in their childhood bedrooms.