The race for technological advantage makes it hard for China and America to reach agreement on shared AI safety protocols.

Israel’s political leadership is strategically paralysed, unable to translate military successes into transformative post-war ...

Another check on the administration could be the fear of tariff-induced inflation. Americans’ experience of the highest price ...

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In 1897 most of Benin City, then the capital of an extensive kingdom, was razed by the British. Their trove of looted plaques ...

A Lebanese-american magnate makes a most unlikely buddy for Donald Trump. But in battered Beirut and elsewhere in the Arab world many are looking at Massad Boulos (pictured) as they try to puzzle out ...

Big chunks of this agenda do remain. Most notably Sir Keir Starmer’s government seeks greater self-sufficiency in energy, ...

This year, though, many consumers will shop not in stores or on e-commerce sites, but via social-media apps. Social ...

The Lobito corridor is “one of the few bright spots the new president will be inheriting on the African continent” amid “an ...

The other, Ursula von der Leyen, stands alone in having secured her place at future G 7 confabs until 2029: on November 27th the European Parliament endorsed her for a second five-year term as ...

On November 8th, less than three weeks into the top job, Mr Prabowo jetted off on a six-country world tour. The outing revealed a man desperate for the approval of his counterparts, over-confident in ...

The leaders of Mexico and Canada responded quickly, and in different ways. Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, jumped on ...