Dalia Dassa Kaye is a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Centre for International Relations, director of its Initiative on ...

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Certainly, the latest rounds of American bargaining and pressure on Ukraine are the most substantial yet. “This isn’t another ...

T hese are edited highlights of a live Q&A with Karen Javelin, the director of “Pantry Earth”, a new feature-length ...

This ad hoc leadership has emerged because it seems to work. It began to take root when Mr Merz took office in May, and after ...

From 2028 the drivers of electric vehicles will be subject to a crude form of road pricing. A levy will be charged at three ...

Many Iranians point to mismanagement and corruption as the root of the economy’s difficulties. In front of billboards urging ...

In medicine, meanwhile, China has turned itself from a copycat maker of generics into the world’s second-largest developer of ...

Two days later Nepal’s president dissolved parliament and appointed Sushila Karki, a former Supreme Court chief justice known ...

O rder a fizzy drink in Baghdad or Beirut and chances are you’ll be served a Pepsi. Unlike anywhere else in the world, in the ...