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Jun 27, 2022
The alliance is fortifying its eastern borders. But it is divided over how far to go in Ukraine
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Jun 23, 2022
In the West, high inflation has forced many economic policymakers to turn hawkish. America’s Federal Reserve, for example, felt compelled to raise interest rates by 0.75...
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Jun 16, 2022
In the past 20 years, China has built ever closer bonds with African nations. It has spent billions transforming infrastructure across the continent, and extending its influence...
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Jun 15, 2022
oint weapons production between India and the West has a long and chequered history. Consider the Tejas fighter jet, whose development was approved in 1983 by Indira Gandhi, the...
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Jun 13, 2022
mmanuel macron, France’s president, is fighting to hold on to his parliamentary majority after the first round of voting in legislative elections on June 12th....
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May 31, 2022
ulia rebenko’s hands were covered in blood; and unlike Lady Macbeth, she was not hallucinating. Quick thinking saved the first-year psychology student from probable death:...
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May 26, 2022
Recent events have revived a century-old border dispute between Ethiopia and Sudan over al-Fashaga—a fertile region that both countries claim as their own. Could these tensions...
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May 24, 2022
he phones at the “Kulliye”, the vast 1,100-room Turkish presidential complex, have been ringing incessantly as Western leaders and officials call to find the answer...
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May 13, 2022
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May 6, 2022
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May 2, 2022
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Apr 28, 2022
he job of organising nato’s biggest military exercise since the cold war kept Admiral James Foggo, then the commander of American naval forces in Europe and Africa,...
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Apr 26, 2022
THEY CAME as Ukraine celebrated Easter, according to the Orthodox Christian calendar. They certainly did not bring peace. Yet the furtive visit to Kyiv, the capital, by Antony...
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Apr 19, 2022
A BILLION EUROS ($1.1bn) goes fast when you are fighting a war. But Germany’s announcement on April 15th that it would give around that sum in additional military aid to...
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Apr 13, 2022
Rising food prices and a history of Western hypocrisy and selfishness aren’t helping
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Apr 9, 2022
In 2016 Mr Macron wrote: “If we don’t pull ourselves together in five years or ten years, [Ms Le Pen] will be in power.” What should centrists make of the worrying...
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Apr 8, 2022
ussia’s invasion of Ukraine has bruised its army and battered its economy. Now Russia’s spies are being hammered, too. On April 7th Austria, for many...
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Apr 1, 2022
Chinese leaders wanted the mood to be “business as usual”. But the summit between China and the European Union on April 1st will be anything but normal. That is...
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Mar 30, 2022
he last pit in the northern French village of Auchy-les-Mines closed in 1974, but the silhouettes of slag heaps still rise in the distance across the flat farmland. They bear...
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Mar 29, 2022
ON FEBRUARY 26TH, shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, RIA Novosti, a Russian state-run news agency, accidentally published an article that had been due to run two days...
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Mar 18, 2022
Shortly before Mr Zelensky began his speech on March 16th, Russian television broadcast an address given by Vladimir Putin, his counterpart. Where Mr Zelensky appealed to his...
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Mar 17, 2022
ermany’s post-war pacifism was once comforting to its neighbours and to Germans themselves. Yet, with the passing of the generations, attitudes have shifted. Sensible...
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Mar 14, 2022
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Mar 4, 2022
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Feb 27, 2022
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Feb 24, 2022
WESTERN COUNTRIES have moved swiftly to impose a first tranche of economic sanctions on Russia after President Vladimir Putin recognised the independence of two breakaway...
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Jan 31, 2022
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Jan 26, 2022
Better than you might think
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Jan 25, 2022
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Jan 18, 2022
CHINA HAS not enjoyed much success at the sport of curling, which will feature in the Beijing winter Olympics beginning on February 4th. But China’s economic policymakers could...
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Jan 13, 2022
alls for the oil business to decarbonise are growing louder just about everywhere, and not merely from governments and environmentalists. Moody’s, a rating...
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Jan 11, 2022
The EU will have to evolve from forbidding things to proposing them
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Jan 7, 2022
Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine has created a chance to enhance the security of Europe
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Jan 6, 2022
Price controls had to go, officials explained at the time, to stimulate investment in a sector plagued with inefficiencies. Fuel producers had little incentive to increase supply...
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Jan 5, 2022
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to turn the clock back to the 1970s.
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Jan 3, 2022
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Jan 3, 2022
Japan offers the world examples to follow as well as ones not to. It is as relevant as ever, argues Noah Sneider