Mr Trump praised his Turkish counterpart as a friend. And he announced that America would start “direct” talks with Iran on ...

Although Mr Trump’s intentions in unleashing the biggest disruption to trade in modern history are not fully clear, he seems ...

The tariffs will hack at the root of Vietnam’s export-oriented economic model. In recent years its economy has benefited from ...

By 2024 (see chart) it had become Brazil’s most popular payment technology, displacing both cash and cards. The number of ...

Despite its misgivings about China’s industrial policies and growing political assertiveness, the EU is also keen for rail ...

A CEASEFIRE BETWEEN Russia and Ukraine remains a distant prospect, and Europe has made slow progress towards creating a ...

Under Mr Trump the process has run even farther off the rails. The president has no authority to delay the ban unless a deal ...

But in Dzaleka, a camp that has held refugees from central African wars since 1994, there is a difference: people are not ...

For Mr Trump the measures represent an attempt to bring a long era of increasingly free global trade to a definitive end.

Yet a new poll conducted for The Economist in the days before and after the violence in March suggests that Syrians remain ...

Since March 28th, when a powerful earthquake shook Myanmar’s central heartlands, the country’s brutal junta has tried to show the world its softer side. Min Aung Hlaing, its leader, has ...

J avier Milei can barely contain his excitement. Since December, when the IMF ’s last agreement with Argentina ran out, the ...