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Yet prospects for democracy are improving. This week a first round of negotiations between Venezuela’s regime and opposition ...

Israeli troops launched a military operation to remove Israeli settlers from Qusra, a village in the West Bank. The settlers ...

The European Union publishes revised estimates of the bloc’s second-quarter GDP on Friday alongside new employment data. A ...

The balance of power in oil markets may shift again. For a while, once the Gulf crisis abates, there could be a “superglut” ...

Yet surely European integration is about more than summits and regulation (right?). Those who make Europe feel like a single ...

Tired of war, Afghans have welcomed peace. Cities which used to ring to the blasts of suicide-bombers feel surprisingly calm. “This is the second summer that birds have returned to Kabul,” says a ...

Japan was no doubt grateful. But it would be wrong to think of it as a helpless naïf. On the contrary, in teaming up with Japan’s government, America was joining forces with one of the biggest ...

V ladimir Putin will not end his war on Ukraine until he believes the costs of fighting on exceed the costs of stopping. The ...

Russian drones caused a fire and damage at Izmail, a grain export hub and Ukraine’s largest Danube port. The attack follows a big Ukrainian strike on Novorossiysk, one of Russia’s most strategically ...

Last year it overtook McDonald’s, the American burger giant, to become the world’s largest fast-food operator by number of locations. Mixue bought a controlling stake in Fulujia in October. Both are ...

O NE boasts NATO’s second-largest army and a booming defence sector. Another is the Muslim world’s only nuclear power. And the third is the world’s eighth-biggest arms spend ...