IT TOOK Donald Trump less than 12 hours on the ground to bring peace to the Middle East. At least this is how the American president’s whirlwind visit to the region on October 13th was framed. It ...

The number of mega-deals—mergers, acquisitions and investments worth more than $10bn—announced this year is approaching a ...

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America is reviving the base as a staging ground for its expanding war against Latin America’s drug-gangs. Since August it ...

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To succeed, the process will require new leadership and sustained external pressure, writes the peace-deal veteran ...

Next, the editorials insist that China is profoundly resilient. They note risks, including American protectionism and weak ...

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The effect is still hard to spot in official data. But a study of 300,000 companies suggests where hiring is weakening ...

The irony of the world’s fiscal mess is that economic conditions are benign. No major economy is in a recession. Public debts ...

Fixing the welfare state looks electorally impossible ...

That leaves three unpalatable options: tax rises, default and inflation. The most likely is inflation—a danger looming over ...