As it started to seem that Donald Trump, America’s president, might give Vladimir Putin what he wants to end his war on ...

South Korean and Japanese officials are putting on their politest smiles and heading to Washington. Akazawa Ryosei, the ...

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The leaked American ceasefire proposal would end sanctions on Russia, freeze the front line and see America formally ...

Canada is only the second Western country to go to the polls since President Donald Trump took office. The mood and political ...

It has become clear once again”, Turkey’s president and Europe’s prospective saviour said on April 11th, “that European ...

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That, he says, is an outcome that Singapore can now ill afford. The former British colony’s extraordinary transformation into ...

F or miles around, as far as the eye can see, the eastern suburbs of Damascus are a sea of undulating rubble and skeletal ...

Another cause is economics. Many African countries are entering a phase in their development in which people are still poor ...