P ickup trucks hauling empty fuel drums are lined up outside a petrol station next to a field of soyabeans in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The attendant says the queue hasn’t budged in days: there is no ...

A centre-left government proposing a slightly more progressive tax system should hardly come as a surprise. But might a too-zealous programme of soaking the rich backfire on a government that says it ...

L ast year, when he was campaigning to be mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, a former organiser for the Chicago Teachers ...

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Ethiopia, though, is an exception. With private cars unaffordable for most Africans, motorbikes and buses are the main form of transport for deliveries and taxi rides, with riders typically travelling ...

T ech firms are known for the large salaries and ostentatious perks they bestow on workers: office slides, ball-pit meeting rooms and back massages. These companies tend to be less keen on the idea of ...

Pennsylvania has 93,000 Amish people, double the number in 2000. Almost half live in Lancaster County. They could in theory help swing the critical state, which Joe Biden won by just over 80,000 votes ...

When Mr Trudeau was first elected he stood for a modern vision for his country: multicultural, climate-conscious and keen to win influence by behaving responsibly in an unstable world. After Donald ...

Over the past four years, SpaceX has become a globe-straddling internet company as well as a rocket-maker. Its Starlink ...

That might seem a little heavy-handed, but China’s police take online fibbing seriously. In July they detained a man in Hengyang, in southern China, after he boasted on social media that he had been ...

The way the group has evolved in recent months illustrates how that approach has changed since the summer of 2023, when Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner’s oligarch founder, was killed weeks after he staged ...

In the 12 months ending in June, the Tatmadaw, the army that overthrew Myanmar’s elected government in 2021, earned Ks6.4trn ($1.8bn) from the FX market, according to a recent analysis by Jared ...