The United States could probably extract major concessions from China in a carefully managed confrontation on trading issues, because the Chinese do not want a trade war with their best export customer.

Four years into a stalemated war, it takes something very big or very bizarre to get Ukraine back into the headlines.

I will do such things,— What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be The terrors of the earth.

Presidents and prime ministers who start wars still do not go to jail, but in democratic countries it is getting common to see presidents facing jail for corruption.

Lots of countries have two or more official languages: Canada (two), Belgium (three), Switzerland (four), South Africa (eleven), India (twenty-three) and so on. They all have trouble balancing the competing demands of the various language groups.

We must speak with one voice in exposing the regime for what it is, a threat to the peace and security of the whole world,” said US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley last December, trying to drum up support for stronger international sanctions against Iran and maybe ev

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte once said that Ferdinand Marcos, who was overthrown by the first non-violent revolution “People Power” in 1986, would have been the Philippines’ best president “if he did not become a dictator”.

As a passer-by in the upscale Johannesburg suburb of Saxonwold observed, the South African police would never have raided the enormous, high-walled compound of the Gupta family if President Jacob Zuma were not on the brink of removabl.

On Sunday, it was revealed that the Syrian army has made a deal to help the Syrian Kurds, who are technically rebels, fight off the Turkish invasion of Afrin, a chunk of Syrian territory on the north-western border with Turkey that has been held by the Kurds since 2012.And the Ru