In January they arrived in Sheraro, a town in northern Tigray that hosts thousands of other refugees from the western zone ...

The saga began in 2018 when Utahns passed a ballot measure to establish a citizen redistricting commission that would advise ...

Also called the “permanent portfolio”, it was devised in the 1980s by Harry Browne, an investment adviser who also ran twice ...

Rachel Reeves could be forgiven for dreading Labour’s party conference in Liverpool, which kicks off on September 28th. MPs will lobby the chancellor for money in November’s budget. Sweaty-palmed ...

CHINA’S RULING Communist Party will hold a giant conclave to review the country’s next five-year plan from October 20th-23rd. That plan will span the rest of the decade and shape decision-making for ...

If the past is a foreign country, its name is surely Eritrea. Residents of Asmara, its capital, pootle around in ancient Fiat 500s, wistfully gliding past art-deco cinemas, ornate villas and grand ...

Alassane Ouattara's long path to becoming Ivory Coast president included two elections in which he was disqualified from ...

The mood music is building to a crescendo. This week Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s dictator, spoke to his rubber-stamp parliament about his “fond memories” of meeting Donald Trump, with whom he held ...

Thailand cut its estimate for economic growth this year to 2.5-3.5% after suffering its worst slump in more than two decades in 2020 due to the shock from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Joel Mokyr (Northwestern Univ.), Phillippe Aghion (London School of ...

Chile's central bank on Wednesday softened its prediction for an economic contraction in 2020 due to the impact of the coronavirus on the world's top copper producer to between -4.5% and -5.5% from ...

The World Bank has cut its 2020 economic growth forecasts for Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan because of the coronavirus crisis but expects the three South Caucasus nations to recover next year.