After America and Iran agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in June, the price of Brent crude fell to nearly $70 a barrel.

Recorded at an invitation-only event hosted by The Economist Pro at our London offices, this on-demand briefing features Tom ...

So far they are doing rather less. More than 70 countries have signed a Global Cooling Pledge, promising to cut ...

F rom the late 1970s, as China moved away from central planning, the Communist Party picked four cities on the coast to be ...

The event, hosted by Liz Truss, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, was inspired by America’s influential Conservative ...

Ukraine’s attacks on refineries, which have caused fuel shortages across the country, were already bringing the war home. The ...

T he help China gives Russia in the war in Ukraine has long caused dismay in Western countries. Exports of ostensibly ...

If the police thought they could go after Mr Febrie, one of the country’s most powerful officials, with impunity, they were ...

Mr Merz was slow to grasp the strength of the outcry over Mr Spahn’s announcement. In his annual Sommerinterview on zDF, a ...

Broadcast towers first went up across Africa in the 1920s. Colonial regimes used the radio for propaganda. Liberation ...

B ack in the 1970s Gulf countries bet big on the idea that technology could make hot, arid places habitable. The gamble paid ...

STANDING BEFORE an elaborate array of white flowers, Takaichi Sanae, Japan’s prime minister, delivered a speech at a memorial ...