A year ago Donald Trump created the Board of Peace to rebuild Gaza. Yet for many Palestinians, life is even harder, as the ceasefire is repeatedly...

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   Bond yields across the rich world keep ticking up. We take a global look at where the risks are mounting most, and just how much worry is warranted....

   What started as a small protest about conditions of a school and of schooling has mushroomed, and tapped into national anxieties that may prove hard...

   Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is gambling that anger about housing might solidify his mandate in a snap poll. Most probably it will instead add to the...

   Flávio Bolsonaro, populist-right son of the imprisoned coup architect Jair, received the most votes in the presidential first round. We ask why Luiz...

   If Artificial Intelligence results in job losses or lower salaries, government revenues will fall. Our correspondent explains how best to tax the...

   Russia has embarked on a new campaign to quell Ukraine, focused on supermarkets, playgrounds and other civilian targets. Our correspondent reports on...

   An independent commission has found Manchester City guilty of breaching over 100 rules. What penalty will the Premier League exact? Russia’s...

   On October 4th, Brazil faces a polarising general election: re-elect the octogenarian incumbent or pick the son of a former president jailed for...

   Five men are in custody under suspicion of explosives and terrorism offences after being arrested near a British military base used by American...

   Not much of real substance appears to have emerged from the get-together. But our correspondent says there are clues of how both sides view an...

   Rich-world house prices survived the last fit of interest-rate rises; our correspondent lays out why they may not this time. Nine months after...

   Marine Le Pen, party leader of France’s populist-right National Rally, starts her fourth presidential bid with a commanding lead. The country’s...

   An illicit shadow economy, rampant extortion and the capture of the criminal justice system: mafia members and tactics are eating away at the state....

   Two more state-election results reveal surging support for both the far-right AfD and the populist-left Die Linke parties. Chancellor Friedrich Merz...

   After a visit to Ukraine last week, our defence editor reports on a new phase of the war as Kyiv and other civilian targets are bombarded by Russian...

   The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time since July 2023. For the central bank’s new chair Kevin Warsh, that decision was a...

   Is artificial intelligence becoming uncontrollably powerful? Our correspondent analyses whether a pause to breakneck development is possible or...

   Though a growing share of the British population is anxious about Islam, they have no reason to be. Islamism, a fringe ideology that believes...

   After years of stalemate, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis are taking territory, including on a Red Sea strait. We ask what has changed, and how the shift...

   For 15 years, the British media dismissed Tommy Robinson as a far-right extremist. We kept him off our televisions, and out of our newspapers....

   OpenAI’s claim to have solved one of the great problems in mathematics has itself created problems. We ask why the breakthrough has shaken the field....

   The labour data are in from America and a trend is becoming clearer: on balance AI is starting to create more jobs than it hoovers up. Despite...

   President Javier Milei has tamed inflation and improved the lot of many Argentines. But an election season approaches, and the promised economic and...

   International tests in maths and reading show that 15-year-olds today score what 14-year-olds would have done a decade ago. Our correspondent...

   Alternative for Germany won an even larger share of the vote than expected in yesterday’s state election. What does the far-right nationalist party’s...

   Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, has shifted strategy to boost demand for its chips. Our correspondent assesses the opportunities and risks...

   Donald Trump’s stance on immigration helped him win the presidency. Our correspondent asks if a backlash against the campaign could damage Republican...

   On Sunday, Alternative for Germany could become the first far-right nationalist party to win a state election since the end of the second world war....

   After the devastating flash flood last week, our correspondent explains why the country is so ill-equipped to deal with the crisis. Does AI stop...

   Behind the scenes, Artificial Intelligence is playing a growing role in every aspect of film-making, from script-writing and production-planning to...

   Our correspondent goes inside a Chinese robot facility to see thousands of droids being taught to complete useful tasks. Is it worth the time and...

   Personalised vaccines could offer a breakthrough in the fight against cancer. Our correspondent analyses the latest trial. Canada’s oil market is...

   Amid record-tickling yields, the bond markets are now trying to make sense of what Scott Bessent, America’s Treasury secretary, has announced a move...

   After much hullabaloo America announced its Operation Economic Outcast , a new tranche of sanctions. It is thin gruel, and might in fact invite...

   Promising trade talks imploded after a literal 11th-hour change from the American side. We examine the new trade barriers being erected, and the...

   The rise of generative AI has put new urgency into ancient questions. What is consciousness, and can machines ever have it? We dive into the data...

   Yuval Noah Harari is a big-ideas guy. Known for penning tomes that tackle broad sweeps of history, the historian-cum-philosopher has now turned his...

   From anti-corruption probes to a disgruntled ex-minister calling for elections to disrupted grain shipments, headaches are mounting for Ukraine’s...

   Orexins are peptides involved in the body’s sleep-wake system and are big pharma’s next big thing. Like multi-purpose GLPs, they may have far more...

   Israeli settlers have been clashing more and more with Palestinians in the West Bank, often with government backing. We examine the forces at play in...

   To critics, the Green Party leader is dangerous, even a con man. To fans, he is a national saviour-in-waiting. Our correspondent meets him to see...

   Five years after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban show little sign of moderation. Our correspondent reports from the country on...

   After American troops snatched Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in a dawn raid in January, democracy did not seem like a priority. Yet this week,...

   The Iran war triggered the largest supply shock in the history of petroleum, yet prices never rose as high as feared. Our correspondent explains how...

   The Muslim Brotherhood won power and influence in the Arab Spring of 2011. Now autocrats are resurgent and its leaders are in jail or exile. Elon...

   Britons are turning to artificial intelligence to file objections to state institutions, and claim their dues. The resulting deluge of complaints and...

   We look at the peace that has settled over Khartoum, the ruined capital. War rages on elsewhere, and a slim chance at a settlement rests largely with...