Jeanine Añez was the senate vice president and little-known even in her native Bolivia before longtime President Evo Morales resigned on 10 November 2019 when the Bolivianarmed forces, the…

For more than five years, Russian forces and their proxies have waged a bloody war against Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region of easternUkraine. The conflict has claimed more than 13,000 lives,…

Thirty years ago this month, the opening of the Berlin Wall ushered in the last great diplomatic struggle of the Cold War. As cheering crowds danced atop what was left of the Iron Curtain, the fate…

Presidential impeachment inthe United Stateshas always seemed to be a domestic matter. PresidentBill Clintonwas impeached for lying about sexual misconduct. PresidentRichard Nixonresigned to avoid…

What if an election is held and no one votes? This question now confrontsAlgeria, where the government of interim PresidentAbdelkader Bensalahhas scheduled a presidential election forDecember 12…

In less than two weeks Britain will go to the polls in the most consequential election in years. The election is intended to break the deadlock and finalise Britain’s often-delayed departure from the…

A fixture of British politics for four decades, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was born in Wiltshire in 1949. His father David, an electrical engineer and mother Naomi, a maths teacher, were…

For all the acrimony in Washington today, the city’s foreign policy establishment is settling on a rare bipartisan consensus: that the world has entered a new era of great-power competition. The…

The 1947 partition of India made it evident that sectarianism was going to plague the subcontinent for the foreseeable future. Fast forward 70 years later and the emergence of Hindu nationalism in…

Protests in Iraq have exposed long-simmering resentment at Iran’s influence in the country, with demonstrators targeting Shia political parties and militias with close ties to Tehran. People have…