O n August 18th Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, will enter the White House to meet Donald Trump and discuss ending ...

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The results reveal a linguistic divide. Countries in the EU and Asia perform well. France, which also did well the last time ...

At the end of 2024 the Liberal Party had sunk in opinion polls, with the Conservatives holding a commanding 25-point lead.

Not far behind is Navy Yard, a nearby Washington, DC neighbourhood with a similar feel, though with a reputation for housing ...

IT COULD BE a giant archaeological dig. Bulldozers tear at the jungle to reclaim the history of the second world war and its dark finale: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago ...

Vladimir Putin has been a mysterious exception. Mr Trump has blamed his travails over Russia’s interference in the 2016 ...

The rare earths are a group of 17 metallic elements that find their way into products and industries from smartphones to fighter jets. Powerful, compact motors sporting magnets made from rare ...

But intelligence chiefs, military figures and politicians are newly preoccupied by it. Svalbard’s governor, Lars Fause, says ...

A fter Prabowo Subianto was elected president of Indonesia last year, he told his younger brother that he would finally be ...

By creating economically meaningful tariff differentials between China and its neighbours, Mr Trump’s first trade war in 2018 ...