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 ...

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

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

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