F or British ministers, a trip to northern Norway is à la mode. In February Al Carns, the armed-forces minister and former ...

China, in the official telling, is composed of 56 separate ethnicities. Parliamentary representatives who are Han, the dominant ethnic group, generally attend in grey and black business attire. But ...

Locally this subsidy spectacle has been dubbed the “hongbao wars”, in reference to the red envelopes of cash typically handed out at new year. Already most Chinese AI companies were making their ...

Preparations ordered by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, before his assassination on February 28th, proceeded as ...

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N OW INTO its second week, the American-Israeli war with Iran has all but stopped seaborne oil exports from the Gulf’s big ...

F IFTEEN YEARS ago the state of Baden-Württemberg sent tremors across Germany by electing the country’s first—and so far only—Green-led government. Two weeks before that vote the Fukushima disaster ...

Read all our coverage of the war in the Middle East Such attacks point to a new phase in the third Gulf war. When it began on February 28th, both America and Iran might have hoped for a swift end.

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On the contrary, we are trying to finish it,” Vladimir Putin had told Russians a few years earlier, after invading Ukraine.

India's government has celebrated its economy becoming the world's fourth-largest by GDP, but recent revisions show it ...

The movement’s enthusiasm for the strikes on Iran also reflects the appeal of Mr Trump’s broader approach to military power. If ever there were a style of foreign policy suited to the America First ...