Arab armed forces often splurge on vanity equipment like fighter jets that are ill-suited to the asymmetric threats they face, argues Paul Collins, a former British defence attaché in Cairo. Flashy ...

M ykhailivka, a village on the right bank of the River Dnieper in Ukraine, lies dangerously close to the front line of Russia ...

And that was mostly before ChatGPT set off the AI revolution in November that year. The ensuing hoopla led the the International Energy Agency (IEA), an official forecaster, to predict that data ...

In 2022 he nixed federal protections for transgender workers. In March he put on hold President Joe Biden’s lending rules for poorer Americans. And in recent days Texas has again turned to Amarillo to ...

Editor’s note (May 4th 2024): This article has been updated.

South Africa is undeniably a free country. The hidebound evil of apartheid is gone. A liberal constitution helps ensure South ...

Mr Macron’s critics called it a mix of electioneering, the usual French self-interest and the intellectual vanity of a ...

That leaves the third and most worrying option: making creditors pay. America would never be forced by the markets to default ...

President Joe Biden condemned the violence that has swept university campuses all over America. “There’s the right to protest ...

The options boom is propelled by the rapid growth of India’s stockmarket. In January it overtook Hong Kong’s to become the ...

At the start of this fiscal hullabaloo, in 1992, America’s net debt amounted to 46% of GDP. Today it has reached 96% of GDP.

Strong economic growth, which averaged 5.9% over the 20 years after the country took ownership of the Panama canal at the ...