It was, on the surface, a routine address to an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development conference in Paris. But when Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s foreign minister, took the podium on Tuesday, his remarks cut well beyond the usual diplomatic register.…
A Romanian Member of the European Parliament has issued a stark warning that European nations must confront the growing probability of their citizens becoming casualties in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, a prospect that carries profound implications for…
Thailand will host the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok from October 12 to 18, drawing more than 15,000 delegates from 191 countries to address pressing questions of global economic stability, financial governance and development policy.…
There are moments when a single human story crystallises a broader social tension with an intensity that no policy paper or economic report quite manages to achieve. The death of Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old woman evicted from her home in…
France’s schools have become an unlikely theatre of political pressure, as a wave of student demonstrations has compelled Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to acknowledge institutional shortcomings and pledge remedial action before the disruption deepens further. Hundreds of schools across the…
Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Authority confirmed on Tuesday that two airports close to the Yemeni border sustained strikes the previous evening, leaving three people injured and causing material damage to infrastructure at both sites. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz airport in…
The arrest of a former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service on suspicion of treason and espionage represents a serious breach at the heart of the country’s security apparatus, raising uncomfortable questions about the integrity of its most sensitive institutions.…
A Revised Standard for Diagnosis A large international study published in eClinicalMedicine has concluded that a newly proposed global definition of clinical obesity identifies substantially fewer children as obese than the body mass index criterion currently in widespread use, with…
Step outside in London this weekend and the calendar seems almost implausible. The thermometer reads 24°C, a light southerly breeze carries the unmistakable warmth of continental air, and the Turkish city of Istanbul — at a comparatively modest 21°C —…
Health authorities across Europe and Russia are contending with a fresh wave of mutated influenza strains against which the general population carries no natural immunity. A Complete Reformulation The clearest signal that something significant has shifted came with the vaccine…