BEIJING — The message is the same to China‘s civil servants, party members, employees of state-owned enterprises: show more restraint. With Chinese national debt continuing to rise, the government ...

ROME — It would be a mistake to downplay the progress Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made on the Palestinian question. The proposed motion to recognize the State of Palestine, albeit tied ...

Brazil’s Gramacho dump is the largest wasteland in Latin America. And yet, though millions of Brazilians know its name, for local and national government agencies, neither this nor any other dumps ...

PARIS — There is a new bill before the French National Assembly that calls for “reinforcing the respect of the principles of the Republic,” and fight against Islamist “separatism.” We already know ...

GAZA CITY — The 1967 Arab-Israeli war ended in defeat for “revolutionary” and “progressive” Arab regimes — according to the terms of that time. Despite the great, bitter and surprising defeat that ...

Nixon is not alone on this front Keystone Press Agency/ZUMA PARIS — “Personally, I count the number of potatoes on each plate before serving my boyfriend…” Manon let out an embarrassed laugh, but the ...

BARCELONA — In 1976, Barcelona’s General Metropolitan Plan (PGM) was approved as a framework for the city’s urban planning. But the city’s issues back then were different than what it faces today: ...

If you’ve been to the UK in recent years, chances are you might have stumbled across a church that had been turned into a pub or a home, and thought to yourself “Oh, how quaint!” And indeed, across ...

ZURICH – In the small Pakistani community of Bhati Dilwan, a former village councilor says children are being sickened by filthy water. Who’s to blame? He says it’s bottled water-maker Nestlé, which ...

Nine years after her husband’s death, Suha Arafat regrets her marriage to the former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. They married in a secret wedding in Tunisia in 1990 when Suha was 27.

Public support for a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine is growing in Russia, with new polling showing record levels of backing for diplomacy. But the majority still insists on conditions that ...

DIE ZEIT: Frank Böttcher, Klaus Richter, the professional associations of meteorologists and physicists in Germany warn that the Earth could have warmed by 3 °C by 2050. That is only 25 years away. Do ...