Catch up:Trump and Zelensky respond to Putin; Britain’s economy shrinks
Russia and Ukraine exchanged drone strikes overnight as discussions over a ceasefire proposal continued. On Thursday Vladimir...
Catch up:Putin’s meeting with American envoy; Gold prices surge
Donald Trump called talks between Vladimir Putin and Steve Witkoff, America’s envoy to the Middle East, “good and productive”...
Catch up:Trump comments on ceasefire talks; Gold prices surge
Donald Trump called talks between Vladimir Putin and Steve Witkoff, America’s envoy to the Middle East, “good and productive”...
Time is running out for Syria’s president
Syria has just seen the worst sectarian violence since the toppling of Bashar al-Assad three months ago, and perhaps since th...
7-Eleven is still struggling to fend off its Canadian suitor
THE BATTLE for control of Seven & i, the Japanese owner of 7-Eleven, has taken a number of surprising turns since Aliment...
After the bloodshed, can Syria’s president unite his country?
The bloodbath that terrified Syrians expected after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December came at last. Responding to calls...
Abiy Ahmed’s agricultural revolution is too good to be true
AFRICA HAS a new breadbasket—or so says Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister. Thanks to a state-led programme of agricultura...
America First may be a boon for Walmart’s Mexican business
THERE ARE few more potent symbols of American capitalism than a Walmart supercentre, its endless aisles heaving under the wei...
Another civil war looms in South Sudan
Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are familiar with violence. When civil war erupted in 2013, two years after in...
Athol Fugard spoke truth to apartheid South Africa
He could never explain exactly why he did it. He was only ten or eleven at the time, an ordinary white brat. There had been a...