UNITED NATIONS — For years, Canada was a trouper in the drama of international affairs. An adept and experienced contributor, it didn’t often draw the spotlight when world leaders gathered at the U.N. each September. This year, the nation of 41 million has a new posture on the planet’s biggest diplomatic stage. Since a watershed
Germany is Europe’s, and therefore the eurozone currency’s, largest economy. It is the world’s largest single donor to Ukraine right now and it is the biggest net payer into the EU budget. When Germany’s finances are in trouble and the country turns inward because of a political crisis, the knock-on effect beyond its borders can
China and the United States are divided on many issues, from tariffs and technology to Taiwan. But there is one thing tying them together: fast food. American restaurant and beverage chains are expanding rapidly in China, drawn by the potential customer pool in a country with four times the U.S. population. China’s languishing economy and cutthroat industry competition, meanwhile, have
NEW YORK — Maps. Where would we be without them? And how would we even know? They can anchor us in a place or help us get somewhere else. They can show us global political realities via the drawing of contested country borders. We take it as truth that not only does X mark the
Unbeknown to Hanna, her father had been dismissed as a minister, though he still went out early to get some exercise each day. It was not until a few days after 9/11 – when the world was distracted by the al-Qaeda attacks on the US – that the country was to discover the full extent
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh told markets yesterday that the central bank’s rate-setting committee had unanimously agreed on a 25 basis point interest rate hike to combat inflation. The U.S. base rate now sits at 3.75% to 4%, a quarter-percentage-point increase in the opposite direction of the downward trajectory Trump has been aggressively lobbying for.
