According to exclusive polling for The Economist by Premise, a research firm based in Virginia, Venezuelans inside the ...

T HE LAST time Iran was convulsed by nationwide protests, in 2022, the Arab world was transfixed. The Islamic Republic had ...

The polling shows that Mr Maduro, who presided over torture and economic collapse and brazenly stole the presidential ...

Large protests in Iran have been met with a bloody crackdown. Some estimate that thousands have been killed. But the Islamic ...

This is the introduction to Middle East Dispatch, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents take a ...

With each passing year the presence of Chinese business abroad grows stronger, in rich and poor countries alike, and across a ...

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L AST SUMMER Britain published a “root and branch” strategic defence review (SDR). It was supposed to settle the country’s ...

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His colleague on the committee, Thom Tillis, has already criticised the investigation into Mr Powell, and has said he will block any nominations to the Fed board until proceedings are resolved. If ...

A year into Donald Trump’s second term, global trade has been transformed. America has abandoned its role as guardian of the post-1945 order, instead wielding tariffs to punish political foes and ...

His firm loaded around 1.7m barrels of Venezuelan crude onto tankers in the first week of January, after the partial lifting ...