Eighteen years ago, under Hugo Chávez, Venezuela nationalised assets belonging to American and other Western companies; ...

One century ago this week, the Widows’, Orphans’ and Old-Age Contributory Pensions Act came into force. Workers and employers ...

You find what space you can in Burundi, where 14m people squeeze into an area not much bigger than Wales or Massachusetts.

If the aim of Vladimir Putin’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy system was to cripple the country’s will to fight, it did not seem ...

Donald Trump says Venezuela’s people are “free again”, now that its dictator has been removed. But freedom remains far from ...

He claimed that his one telephone conversation with President Donald Trump, in November, was “cordial”. He used to tell his ...

Snatching Nicolás Maduro and attempting to take control of Venezuela and its oil is an extraordinary display of the new ...

After months of military build up, an overnight bombing campaign and helicopter raid has deposed Venezuela’s strongman ...

In fact, the truth of America’s nighttime raid on Venezuela to capture and whisk away Nicolás Maduro, its leader, is ...

Brexit has not only intensified Britain’s weaknesses; its third major cost has been to dull one of the country’s strengths.

It was only a matter of time until such gloom gave rise to another round of mass protest. The only question was what would ...

On December 11th Mark Rutte, the NATO secretary-general, said darkly that “we must be prepared for the scale of war our ...