From the early 1980s until the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, the world economy enjoyed unusually good conditions. The Cold War ended, defense budgets shrank, and...
On 16 October, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) proposed granting Microsoft the status of a company with strategic market power in business software....
Europe's pay-as-you-go pension systems rest on promises worth several times GDP, financed by taxes and debt that future workers have never agreed to. The only...
Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world's first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons...
“Never again” to genocide is one of the international community’s most brittle postwar promises, often invoked only after the killing has begun. Yet mass atrocities...
France and Germany agreed a joint proposal on rules for European car factories. Under current regulations, from 2035 manufacturers must cut the average carbon dioxide...
On 16 October, Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court unanimously upheld an order requiring Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, to ensure equal treatment of...
