The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Donald Trump’s victory and the fallout from the US election in 2024.

IF YOU JUDGE how well-read someone is by the number of books they get through, your correspondent is a veritable bibliophage.

Importantly, the IDA is a partnership between donor and recipient countries and, as with all partnerships, success comes when ...

For more than a year, Hizbullah insisted it would not stop fighting Israel until Israel stopped fighting in Gaza. Israel has ...

Nearly half of British employers say a degree is no longer important, according to Hays, a recruitment firm. That widens the ...

“I fear the world is losing the fight against gangs and organised crime,” says Jürgen Stock, who on November 7th stepped down ...

F ew world leaders have left office as lauded as Angela Merkel. When she stepped down as chancellor in 2021, after 16 years, ...

In November 2023 Colombia imposed a tax on highly processed foods and drinks. Authorities in Brazil, Canada and Peru have ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Donald Trump’s victory and the fallout from the US election in 2024.

The island has just 140 inhabitants. It got mains electricity only in 1992 and an undersea cable to the UK electrical grid in ...

To understand the forbidding world that Donald Trump will confront, open the 75-page report of a bipartisan commission on national security, published in July. “The threats the United States ...

Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the United States was met with trepidation across most of Latin America. And with good reason: the impact of his return to the White House in 2025 will be felt ...