Mr Trump has described such a purchase as “the easy way”, while declining to rule out a harder approach. Americans are ...

F OR MID-SIZE liberal democracies, 2026 threatens to be a lonely year. Western leaders are menaced and mocked by an America ...

Canada and the United States have exchanged military personnel for decades. Beyond joint task-forces, intelligence sharing, ...

But deeper forces are behind the rise in beauty spending. Consumers glued to social media have never felt more pressure to ...

Today, the world looks more unsettling for Mr Xi. America’s capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela robbed China of its ...

He and fellow European “patriots” have drawn inspiration from Mr Trump’s re-election and potent blend of country-first, ...

O n january 18th, after Donald Trump repeated his threat to take over Greenland and announced tariffs on Denmark and seven ...

W ith Nicolás Maduro ousted and regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua flailing, the Castro-inspired left that once held sway over ...

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There is no threat to America coming from Greenland, whose territory is protected by Denmark’s membership of NATO. If Russia ...

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