Global bond markets recovered some of their losses after a sharp sell-off on Thursday sent borrowing costs soaring. A small ...

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Police arrested 2,000 protesters after schools were set on fire and 65 staff were injured. The government condemned the “urban violence” and held an emergency cabinet meeting. Protests spread to Liège ...

It intends to manufacture high-tech products like semiconductors, which it currently merely assembles with comparatively ...

It starts with overhauling the judiciary and the budget, writes Malu Gaspar, the journalist who exposed the latest scandal ...

Yet America’s monthly labour-market statistics have told a consistent story this year: employment remains robust despite ...

British pubs are calling last orders. Just one in four is profitable. Around 160 closed in the first three months of 2026, 26 ...

Donald Trump won it by 30 points in 2024. So some Republican strategists are puzzled by his decision to hold a rally there 33 ...

India’s government has ordered 112 coal-fired power plants—owned by Tata Steel, Reliance and other industrial giants to ...

Eurostat publishes September inflation figures for the euro-zone on Friday. Economists think the annual rate rose from 3.2% ...

T HREE YEARS ago this newspaper explored the voguish notion of “Peak China”: the idea that the second-biggest economy in the ...

Secondary-school students led more than 900 protests across France, complaining of teacher shortages and poor classroom conditions. Police arrested 2,000 protesters after schools were set on fire; a ...