John Prideaux, our US editor, considers the implications of a leaked phone call between American and Russian officials ...

But on November 28th Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff became the most prominent casualty of a corruption scandal that continues to shake Ukraine, just as it faces grave diplomatic pressure from ...

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

It’s cute, but hardly conjures up the warp speed of the robotaxi revolution. China’s robocabs, constructed for a third of the cost of Waymo’s in America, are racking up millions of kilometres of ...

T ourists in the bars of Tokyo are rejoicing. Visiting Japan was once a mightily expensive endeavour; now it is cheaper than ...

The number of American cities on the robotaxi roadmap is rising fast. Alphabet-owned Waymo, which has the world’s biggest ...

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

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 ...

Much of the continent’s eastern half would thus want Europe to isolate Russia yet more firmly. Many in its western half, in ...

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 ...

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

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