The balance of power in oil markets may shift again. For a while, once the Gulf crisis abates, there could be a “superglut” ...

Tired of war, Afghans have welcomed peace. Cities which used to ring to the blasts of suicide-bombers feel surprisingly calm. “This is the second summer that birds have returned to Kabul,” says a ...

Yet surely European integration is about more than summits and regulation (right?). Those who make Europe feel like a single ...

O NE boasts NATO’s second-largest army and a booming defence sector. Another is the Muslim world’s only nuclear power. And the third is the world’s eighth-biggest arms spend ...

Last year it overtook McDonald’s, the American burger giant, to become the world’s largest fast-food operator by number of locations. Mixue bought a controlling stake in Fulujia in October. Both are ...

The White House accused China of evading American tariffs by rerouting exports through more than 40 countries. It said other nations subject to high tariffs are doing something similar. The Trump ...

Japan was no doubt grateful. But it would be wrong to think of it as a helpless naïf. On the contrary, in teaming up with Japan’s government, America was joining forces with one of the biggest ...

The study, published in the Lancet, a British medical journal, offers the most comprehensive estimate to date of mental disorders’ prevalence in China, with 191m cases in 2023 (equivalent to about one ...

V ladimir Putin will not end his war on Ukraine until he believes the costs of fighting on exceed the costs of stopping. The ...

Russian drones caused a fire and damage at Izmail, a grain export hub and Ukraine’s largest Danube port. The attack follows a big Ukrainian strike on Novorossiysk, one of Russia’s most strategically ...

Critics are dismayed. Some worry firms are pushing immature technology onto vulnerable couples. Others say that even if the tech works, its use is immoral. Both arguments contain kernels of truth; ...

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it to direct the United States Postal Service to oversee mail-in ballots. Mr Trump has falsely linked their use to fraudulent voting. It is ...