ROME — It would be a mistake to downplay the progress Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made on the Palestinian question. The proposed motion to recognize the State of Palestine, albeit tied ...

BEIJING — The message is the same to China‘s civil servants, party members, employees of state-owned enterprises: show more restraint. With Chinese national debt continuing to rise, the government ...

Nixon is not alone on this front Keystone Press Agency/ZUMA PARIS — “Personally, I count the number of potatoes on each plate before serving my boyfriend…” Manon let out an embarrassed laugh, but the ...

GAZA CITY — The 1967 Arab-Israeli war ended in defeat for “revolutionary” and “progressive” Arab regimes — according to the terms of that time. Despite the great, bitter and surprising defeat that ...

Brazil’s Gramacho dump is the largest wasteland in Latin America. And yet, though millions of Brazilians know its name, for local and national government agencies, neither this nor any other dumps ...

DIE ZEIT: Frank Böttcher, Klaus Richter, the professional associations of meteorologists and physicists in Germany warn that the Earth could have warmed by 3 °C by 2050. That is only 25 years away. Do ...

Public support for a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine is growing in Russia, with new polling showing record levels of backing for diplomacy. But the majority still insists on conditions that ...

On October 24, 1975, an estimated 90% of Iceland's adult female population went on strike. Credit: Kvennasögusafn (Women's History Archives) REYKJAVIK — Imagine ordinary life, but no one shows up.

Director Jesse Armstrong’s recent HBO film Mountainhead satirizes the sophomoric philosophies of today’s tech billionaire oligarchs. Steve Carell’s character — who has been likened to Palantir ...

BOGOTÁ — We are living in extraordinary times, there’s no doubt about it. And a part of the exceptional nature of our times is that we are witnessing the end of democracy, or rather, its progressive ...

KOMOTINI — In the privacy of a cosy flat in this city in northeastern Greece, Shatitzeh Molla Sali speaks to us softly, so softly that she is sometimes barely audible. Hers is the voice of a weary ...

The Monument to the Liberators of Riga is taken down in Riga, Latvia. Stringer/TASS/ZUMA In the Latvian capital of Riga, an 80-meter concrete obelisk came crashing down in late August to the loud ...