That paves the way for their candidate, Friedrich Merz (pictured), to take over from Olaf Scholz as chancellor after ...

U KRAINIAN OFFICIALS are locked in talks with America whose brinkmanship is dizzying even by Donald Trump’s standards. He and ...

In part, this reflects the broader crypto boom—but stablecoins are increasingly used for real-world purposes, too. Migrants ...

The other side of the border has been beefed up too. The US Department of Defence has ordered 1,500 additional active-duty ...

The sackings have little to do with kindling the “warrior ethos”, which the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, vows to do.

Donald Trump is smashing up assumptions about America’s place in Europe’s security architecture that perhaps held faster in ...

But, from Vladimir Putin’s point of view, he had good reason to be part of it. As the boss of one of Russia’s state-backed ...

Donald Trump, however, seems to see Article II of the constitution, which lays out the president’s powers, as a blank cheque.

J udged by the din of Russian propaganda and the despair among Europeans, Vladimir Putin has never been closer to winning his ...

Germans will greet the next government with the stoniest of scepticism. Thorsten Faas, a political scientist at the Free ...

When the monkeys were single-celled embryos, scientists had used CRISPR editing tools to silence, or “knock out”, a gene that ...

The scene captures Brazil’s approach to the legacy of its dictatorship, which ruled from 1964 to 1985. Unlike in Argentina, ...