Yet building a gambling industry also presents various dilemmas for the UAE. The new industry regulator is run by former ...

The strangest thing of all, however, was Armani’s succession plan. The designer, nicknamed “King Giorgio”, died at 91 without children. He left the company to which he gave his name, and owned in its ...

The Greens, as Libyans call them, still have many government jobs, particularly in the security forces in the east where Khalifa Haftar, the head of the Haftar clan and a strongman, dominates.

The president could be in trouble. In areas that once staunchly backed him, local elections last November gave his coalition much lower majorities. Mr Markovic thinks this is the “calm before the ...

Mr Merz will head to Beijing (as well as Hangzhou, a tech hotspot) acknowledging that China has taken its place among the world’s great powers. But his visit will be shaped by the darkening mood at ...

But thanks to its large and growing diaspora, Nigerian fashion has lately begun to spread around the world. Pop-up events in cities such as London and Houston, the appearance of Nigerian brands in the ...

F ORMALLY, THE successor to Russia’s first post-Soviet president, Boris Yeltsin, was Vladimir Putin. In every other sense—ideologically, morally, temperamentally—Yeltsin’s successor was a liberal ...

I magine for a moment that you are not a human with discerning media habits. Instead you have been turned into a gazelle and have just spotted a predator. Your first instinct would be to quickly get ...

Poles were for decades America’s loudest cheerleaders in Europe. But that was before Mr Trump’s second term. Last April CBOS, a research organisation, found that just 31% of Poles think the countries’ ...

In late January polls showed One Nation, the movement of the anti-immigration firebrand Pauline Hanson, had overtaken the parties in Australia’s centre-right opposition coalition for the first time.

In January the WHO stripped Britain of its status as a measles-free country, an embarrassment for a rich country. The UK Health Security Agency in 2023 warned that an outbreak in London of ...

But in confronting a panel of Jewish leaders and activists, the commissioner, Carrie Prejean Boller, rejected any connection between opposition to Zionism and antisemitism, arguing that America must ...