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Catalonia has enjoyed solid growth since the region's failed bid to break away from Spain last year despite predictions the uncertainty sparked by the...

With Peru's opposition leader Keiko Fujimori in prison and no obvious successor in place, the movement created by her father Alberto Fujimori now faces...

Bombs and guns aside, a smartphone can be a powerful weapon in the hands of a terrorist -- but it can also provide intelligence services with the tools to...

Following Emmanuel Macron’s election as president of France in May 2017, global elites breathed a sigh of relief. The populist wave, they reassured...

The next economic crisis is closer than you think. But what you should really worry about is what comes after: in the current social, political, and...

Even as observers in developed countries criticise US President Donald Trump’s use of blunt tools such as tariffs against China, many believe that he is...

Some 78 million miles (126 million kilometres) from Earth, alone on the immense and frigid Red Planet, a robot the size of a small 4x4 wakes up just after...

At least it wasn’t a disaster. If the Democrats had failed to secure a majority in the US House of Representatives, President Donald Trump would have felt...

On Brexit day – March 29, 2019 – the HMS Buccaneer Britannia will set sail in search of the riches of the “Anglosphere.” But there is a hitch:...

When China finally has its inevitable growth recession – which will almost surely be amplified by a financial crisis, given the economy’s massive...