Leading human rights advocates have condemned President Joseph Boakai's decision to commission Lewis Brown, a former national security adviser to Charles Taylor, as Liberia's ambassador to the United ...

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday named Ilan Rom, a longtime intelligence official, as the Finance Ministry's director general.

After Assad’s fall, al-Baghdadi was finally able to return. Like many, he was euphoric and hoped it would pave the way for ...

Fighting around Sudan’s largest oil refinery has set the sprawling complex ablaze, sending thick, black smoke over the country’s capital, Khartoum. That's according to satellite data analyzed by The ...

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump’s second inaugural address ...

Following the second election of Donald Trump, I discovered that several of my acquaintances voted for the twice impeached ...

Why the U.S. economy is still strong despite the Fed’s 2022-’23 rate hikes Effect of rate hikes ‘has been much weaker than the economics textbook would have predicted,’ according to ...

Civil servants are taking more long-term sick days than they did during the Covid crisis as the post-pandemic trend of staff saying they are too ill to work deepens. Civil servants missed 3.5 days ...

and inflation did not result directly from Trump’s 2018 trade war, but questions of affordability stemming from new tariffs are still top of mind for many economy watchers following the post ...

3 January 2025 - On 9 January, UN DESA will release the 2025 World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report, presenting the latest forecast for the global economy. What makes this edition ...

Despite falling inflation, improving labour market conditions, and monetary easing, global growth is projected to remain below the pace seen before the pandemic, and the world economy continues to ...

The "Rapid Support Forces" and its allies are one side in a largely hidden but vicious civil war that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in less than two years. In a statement announcing the U ...