The leaders of Kosovo and Serbia will meet at the White House on Thursday and Friday, in an encounter that some see as a push for a diplomatic win for Donald Trump to brandish during his re-election [...]

Ireland is to keep its pubs shut – Europe’s longest such lockdown – to try to tame Covid-19 infection rates. Health officials have recommended that “wet” pubs that do not serve food should not open on 31 August, as previously [...]

The Wisconsin national guard was deployed to Kenosha on Monday in advance of more protests expected after a man appeared to have been shot several times in the back by the city’s police on [...]

Surging demand for Vanuatu passports has driven an unexpected record surplus, funding Covid-19 bailout packages and cyclone [...]

Germany is expected to extend its pandemic furlough scheme to 24 months after Angela Merkel indicated she welcomed the proposal to let the kurzarbeit programme run [...]

A severely outdated pandemic plan could have contributed to thousands of Covid-19 deaths in Italy, according to a report set to be presented to prosecutors investigating alleged errors by Italian [...]

The body of a man missing after a storm sparked flash floods on the Greek island of Evia over the weekend has been recovered, Greece’s coastguard has said, bringing the death toll from the storm to [...]

Over the past decade, Umeshwar Singh Amra has witnessed his homeland descend into a battleground. The war being waged in Hasdeo Arand, a rich and biodiverse Indian forest, has pitted indigenous people, ancient trees, elephants and sloths against the might of bulldozers, trucks and hydraulic jacks, fighting with a [...]

As a ghostly brown haze began to clear, the streets of east Beirut emerged in apocalyptic ruin. Even 4km from the centre of the blast each building had lost some, if not all, of its windows. It was just after 6pm. Smoke, dispersed with pockets of pink gas, shrouded some of the carnage. Huge shards of glass covered [...]

Timur Kulibayev is without any doubt the wealthiest businessman in Kazakhstan. His shadow is cast over oil and gas industry in Kazakhstan and Russia, over banking and realty, over retail and wholesale. As if it is not enough he uses the current crisis to take a firm grip on the retail pharma, LSTV [...]