Workers Strike Across Greece on Anniversary of Deadly Train Crash
A general strike in Greece on Friday halted trains and ferries, grounded flights and disrupted public services as thousands o...
Francis’ Illness Raises a Hard Question:Who Governs if the Pope Can’t?
Since being hospitalized with acute pneumonia for two weeks, Pope Francis has signed off on the appointment of 20 bishops, ac...
Boris Spassky, Chess Champion Who Lost ‘Match of the Century,’ Dies at 88
Boris Spassky, the world chess champion whose career was overshadowed by his loss to Bobby Fischer in the “Match of the Centu...
A U.K. Teen’s Parents Sent Him to Ghana. He Took Them to Court.
Fearful that their son was becoming entangled in a gang and having failed to change his behavior, two London parents tricked ...
One of the world’s longest conflicts may be ending
DRESSED IN A navy blue jacket, Abdullah Ocalan, long considered Turkey’s public enemy number one, sat behind a long table in ...
Putin Praises Trump for Working to Thaw U.S.-Russia Tensions
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia lauded the Trump administration on Thursday for its efforts to mend ties with the Kreml...
Europe will need to pull all the levers to up its defence spending
The realisation is sinking in. Europe needs to become able to defend itself without America’s help. From Friedrich Merz, Germ...
John Parker, one of The Economist’s finest correspondents, was a polymath journalist
OLDER COLLEAGUES at this newspaper recall when Monday-morning meetings involved squeezing into the editor’s office at The Eco...
Swedish businesses are being bombed
Odakra, a sleepy village in southern Sweden, offers little excitement on a typical weeknight. But at 3am on January 28th resi...
Mother on Hunger Strike to Free Alaa Abd El Fattah From Egyptian Jail at ‘Risk to Life’
The mother of a jailed British Egyptian activist has been hospitalized and is at risk of sudden death, a doctor has said, as ...