This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Of Mecca and Mammon” ...

C orneille nangaa sits in an armchair in a five-star-hotel in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

T he ink had barely dried on Donald Trump’s order to impose a 10% tariff on imports from China before its leader, Xi Jinping, ...

It is a fitting image: the structure and stability of the auction business are not how they appear at first glance. Despite ...

DONALD TRUMP likes oil—and oilmen. He gushes about “liquid gold” with as much ferocity as Spindletop, an oil well that spat ...

Ask Republicans and Democrats alike and they will tell you that Florida is the “reboot” state. Exiles from Latin American ...

Instead, the powerful unelected generals who run Pakistan have mostly received a middle finger. In December, 16 Pakistani ...

China-focused groups facing closure. The State Department has said it is freezing aid for 90 days to review programmes for ...

IN HIGH SCHOOL, Ishiba Shigeru joined the golf club. But he abandoned the sport after entering politics. The elitist hobby ...

Insofar as Mr Trump’s moves against DEI are designed to make America more meritocratic, they are welcome. Firms owe their ...

That leads to the biggest reason to fear tariffs, which is that the federal government needs the money. Its deficit in 2024 ...

But what is really at stake is Georgia’s future. Is it to be a modern European country or, should Mr Ivanishvili have his way ...