By Dec. 10, one third of German employees have already mentally switched off for the holidays β...
France is virtually shut down now by national strikes over pension reform. But from Denmark to UK...
An end to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine doesn't necessarily seem closer, though at least it's n...
Changes are afoot, and yet writer Mohamed Naeem struggles to see light at the end of the dark tun...
-OpEd- MOSCOW β Despite the predictions before this past week's NATO summit of a major split in the alliance, and some awkward moments among its respective leaders, the meeting itself ...
The weakness of institutions in Mexico once gave its presidents leeway to reform the state. Today...
From Venezuela to Hungary, populist leaders are carving away at fundamental checks and balances i...
MOSCOW β Last month, the Interior Minister of Cyprus Constantinos Petrides announced the revocation of 26 "citizenships by investment" that had been granted before stricter criteria of this ...
-Analysis- MINSK β Following the Nov. 17 elections for Belarus' lower house of parliament, independent observers and opposition politicians unanimously rated this campaign as one of the ...
Many people have had to tighten their purse strings in recent years. But that's only part of what...
The U.S. president has a history of strong-arming trading partners. But the move to tax things li...
With a now-leaderless Democratic Party and no charismatic successor to take over from Berlusconi,...
Protesters in Lebanon and Iraq have been venting their fury at Iran, which is accused of practica...
MOSCOW β For the first time, the U.S. Congress has recognized the mass killings and deportations in the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 as genocide. So why now? It doesn't seem that the ...
Globally, 25% of all people admit they have nobody to talk to, with older people living longer an...
Chileans are fairly well off, but only in comparison to their Latin American neighbors. The count...
The world faces a set of challenges not unlike the tumultuous times depicted in the classic Briti...
Election winners Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner will soon take over leadership of...
President López Obrador is bending Congress and the judiciary to his will, and scaring awa...
-Analysis- MOSCOW β The USA betrayed the Kurds. This was the blunt interpretation from Dmitry Peskov, press secretary to Russian President Vladimir Putin, following the Turkey-Russia ...
At the 150th anniversary of the Indian independence leader and philosopher of non-violence, looki...
South American states like Chile and Ecuador suspect Venezuela's socialist regime of fanning riot...
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