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“They tried to bury me alive and here I am.” By the time former-president-turned-Brazilian-president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke on Sunday night, celebrating an unlikely comeback at 77, his gravelly voice was even more hoarse than usual. It...

Opening a column with statistics and dates may not be the best way to get your attention, but these three statistics and single date are important, so please take note: • The median age in the US is 38.5 years • The median age in Russia is 39.8 years...

The newly formed LIV Golf league has garnered months of headlines, both for how it has disrupted the sport and also because the organisation is financed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The billions of dollars sunk into the league to recruit...

Despite pleas from Joe Biden, Republican senators blocked the Disclose Act, legislation that would require advocacy groups to provide names of donors who give $10,000 or more if they advocate for particular candidates or issues. Biden emphasised the ...

On Wednesday night, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit issued a partial stay of District Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling granting Donald Trump a special master to review the 11,000 documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago home by the Fe...

It was the great Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm who remarked that “for a variety of reasons, Italy is a sort of laboratory of political experiences”. Jonathan Foot’s remarkable The Archipelago: Italy Since 1945 certainly seems to bear this observati...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at 91, defied convention in ways small and large throughout some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War. He failed in his most basic ambitions. But the world was better for them all the same. Born to peasa...

Salman Rushdie remains in serious condition after a brutal knife attack last Friday in western New York. Fortunately, he is expected to recover. The prognosis for freedom of expression is not so certain. The motives of Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old New...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday for a trip that had sparked earlier warnings from Beijing that China's military “won’t sit idly by” if the visit occurs. A day earlier, the White House urged China not to overreact to Pel...

Three major elections on the same Sunday in June — in France, Colombia and Spain — tell the fundamental story of democracy in our era: the continuous disaffection with government, the collapse of traditionally dominant parties and figures, and the co...

Japan has been brought to a standstill by the news that former prime minister Shinzo Abe died after being shot on the campaign trail for the upper house elections tomorrow. A lone gunman attacked Abe, who was pronounced dead at an hospital in Nara fr...

“The decisions we have taken in Madrid,” North Atlantic Treaty Organisation secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said as a summit of the alliance’s members closed on June 30, “will ensure that our alliance continues to preserve peace, prevent conflict,...