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Matteo Renzi came to power promising to change Italy or change his job. On Sunday, Italians made that choice for him, rejecting the constitutional reform on...

There are two questions that Democrats must resolve as they confront unified Republican control in Washington. Neither should be all that difficult. The...

When it comes to managing relations with China, Donald Trump is tearing up the rulebook. First by using Twitter to announce his telephone call with...

Native American reservations cover just 2 perc ent of the United States, but they may contain about a fifth of the nation's oil and gas, along with vast...

Now that Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States, the end of what was heretofore termed the “West” has become all but certain. That...

India again posted world-beating growth numbers last week: Gross domestic product grew 7.3 per cent in the quarter between July and September. But the...

Choosing Mitt Romney to be his secretary of state would be the most presidential thing Donald Trump could do. But that doesn’t mean he's going to do...

The European Union's new legislative proposals for a clean energy transition have disappointed environmentalists, policy experts and even building...

Amid rising Hindu nationalism, the Supreme Court of India has ordered theatres to play the national anthem before films and directed moviegoers to stand at...

In conflict zones, it is children who often bear the brunt of the violence. Last month, repeated air strikes on a school compound in Idlib, Syria, killed at...