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Ethiopia is experiencing its most severe political turmoil in decades. After months of escalating protests and conflicts that have killed hundreds of...

Unless the world reduces greenhouse-gas emissions rapidly, humanity is likely to enter an era of unprecedented climate risks. Devastating extreme-weather...

By December 2015, China had endured four years of declining producer prices. Coal was down 38 per cent on the year, and steel down 31 per cent. That month,...

Equal and effective involvement of men and women in education and labour market would mean that both men and women will be able to contribute equally...

Donald Trump's victory has been a shock for America's major partners around the world. But perhaps nowhere has the blow been more painful than in...

The politician who ought to be most immune to the populist rage sweeping the world's democracies should be Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. A...

It's not a great moment for permanent Washington. You know who I mean: the policy analysts, the journalists, the deputy assistant secretaries, the...

Hillary and Bill Clinton have been at the center of US politics for the last-quarter century; for more than 100 years only Richard Nixon showed such...

I do not want to cast aspersions on taxi drivers in the United Arab Emirates, who are mainly Indian or Pakistani expats, but when I wanted to visit the...

There’s been nothing but trouble for much of Africa as the price of oil plummeted 55 per cent during the past two and a half years. But there’s a...