Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Lawmakers reacted with relief after Donald Trump ruled out taking Greenland by force, a ...

Even in recent decades, as India has become the world’s fastest-growing big economy and closes in on being its fourth-largest, it has never matched the pace of Asia’s 20th-century tigers. The goal set ...

It is the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it and improve it,” Donald Trump told the political leaders and captains of industry assembled ...

THE FOG of war can make it difficult to understand what is happening during a conflict. Sometimes that murkiness can persist long after the guns have fallen silent. That is proving true of the ...

The danger is that Mr Modi’s appetite for reforms may go soft, if they can no longer be sold to his nationalist supporters as a necessary sacrifice to strengthen India in an unfriendly world. The ...

In India that experience is not uncommon. The country’s unique dating culture requires homegrown dating apps—or so say a horde of entrepreneurs who are trying to part lonely hearts from their cash. By ...

However, this was just the first phase of a 20-point peace plan. In the three months since the ceasefire went into effect, only one element of the second phase has been implemented. A Palestinian ...

Greenlanders may take some comfort in President Donald Trump’s announcement on January 21st that he had agreed to “the ...

So Donald Trump’s decision to swarm the city with some 3,000 federal immigration officers would seem a boon for the hotels ...

The moral is that, to get America’s president to retreat, you have to convince him that you will impose a price on him. In ...

Its current nominal rate is 0.75%; estimates by central-bank researchers peg Japan’s neutral rate in the range of 1-2.5%, ...

TikTok has sucked up countless hours of teenagers’ lives. But it has kept plenty of politicians awake past their bedtime, too ...