They hope that the men who have made their country miserable, prompting the recent emigration of a quarter of the country’s ...

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Russia is just too powerful to fight and, as in Ukraine, will just grind it out. Besides, Mr Trump argues, European weakness ...

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

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

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

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 ...