The renewal of Angola’s civil war has the government in control of the cities, the rebels in control of the countryside and only war in prospect ...

Brazil’s political landscape has been in disarray for much of the past decade. Intense polarisation has made it harder to pass reforms. Mr Bolsonaro’s removal from public life could give the country a ...

Service stations are getting a glow-up. It takes around two minutes to fill up a petrol car, but around 25 minutes to charge ...

N ot so long ago, Westerners dismissed China as a copycat, a fast follower or a “fat tech dragon”, consuming vast amounts of money and manpower while rarely taking flight. But as China has triumphed ...

Mr Trump’s executive order, “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government”, draws on lurid examples to make its case. Top of ...

This year marks a turning-point in the $19bn spectacle that is American college sports (see chart 1). Hidden behind the ...

For politicians of the centre ground elsewhere, France’s troubles reflect something broader too: a worrying sign that the tools of technocratic politics—an appeal to reason, the marshalling of facts, ...

Since Bashar al-Assad’s fall, Syrians have begun to document and reckon with the half-century of repression that hollowed out their country. At the heart of that story are Syria’s prisons, none more ...

In the most recent survey conducted by Ipsos, a pollster, Mr López Aliaga for the first time topped the voting-intention list for a general election scheduled for April 2026. That put him just ahead ...

Most bizarrely, Lungu’s political party has suggested that Mr Hichilema wants to use the body for witchcraft, an unfounded allegation. “This whole case has gotten out of hand,” sighs an adviser to the ...

Though disappointed, Mr Jackson is not surprised. “New York has never cared,” he says. As with other historians of New York, the only thing that seems to make him wistful about Boston (a younger city, ...

SABRINA CARPENTER’s career is anything but wooden. Last August she released “Short n’ Sweet”, one of the albums of the summer, which topped the charts in 19 countries. Three songs from the record, ...