An anniversary this week caused Charlemagne to ponder his continent’s position 25 years ago. On June 10th 1999 Slobodan ...

The third prong is to advertise the most interventionist elements of Labour’s agenda. Sir Keir was visiting to promote plans ...

According to the latest estimate of the UN ’s Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ), Kenya reached number three in exports last year. It is still far behind Mexico, the unchallenged giant, and ...

Her explanation for slamming on the brakes was weak. She claimed that “circumstances have changed” and that $15 “can break ...

Israel’s leaders did not approve the leak, but they knew it was coming. Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, grudgingly admitted that the plan was of his government’s own making. It is Israel’s ...

How the ANC sees itself—and its self-interest—will determine the future of South Africa. On June 2nd electoral officials announced that Africa’s oldest liberation movement had taken a licking at the ...

M any people have experienced the joy of finding some spare change down the back of the sofa. On May 30th the World Bank ...

G lobally, sea levels have risen by somewhere between 21cm and 24cm since 1880. Most of this rise is a consequence of water physically expanding as it warms, but in recent decades meltwater flowing ...

The combined profits of the five EU banks with the largest Russian operations have tripled, reaching nearly €3bn in 2023.

The company has been especially busy in Africa, a continent across which the UAE is opening embassies, building ports and developing oil-and-gas projects. In Angola, Gambia and Kenya, G 42 is helping ...

CHINA’S HUNGER for homemade chips is insatiable. In May it was revealed that the government had launched the third iteration of its “Big Fund”, an investment vehicle designed to shore up the domestic ...

Even so, a school of thought has stubbornly held that investors know what they are doing, and if they are buying stocks that ...