Canada has beaten the United States after the two countries battled it out on the rink in a championship game that proved to be about more than just ice hockey.…

US Senator Mitch McConnell has announced that he will not seek re-election in 2026 following a 40-year career in Congress. McConnell, 83, was the longest-serving party leader in Senate history,…

Foreign aid isn’t just charity. It’s power. That was the original idea behind the United States Agency for International Development, which J.F.K. set up in the early 1960s to win…

Few countries are more acutely aware of the dangers posed by a resurgence in US military adventurism than Mexico. As mentioned in previous posts, Mexico City is even home to…

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For 16 months, the smiling faces of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir, had been slowly receding into the background of Israeli life as their photographs…

Yves here. We’ve mentioned in passing how the plunge in city center commercial vacancy rates was a crisis in the making for urban budgets. First, at some point, the new…

For Jonathan Dekel-Chen, every day this week has been a mixture of joy and grief. He is celebrating the return of his son Sagui, who was released over the weekend…

Archaeologists have found a pharaoh’s tomb in an Egyptian valley west of Luxor, Egypt’s ministry of antiquities announced this week, in what officials called the first excavation of a royal…

The Swedish authorities said on Friday that they were investigating a new cable break in the Baltic Sea, the latest example of damage to underwater infrastructure in the region. The…