German chancellor says Moscow’s escalation shows ‘desperation’ over the war in Ukraine

Security service says academics should stop taking grants from and working with firm backed by China’s intelligence service

Prime minister’s pure political argument marks new era for party as he sets out his plans and priorities

On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.

In the city center, local media and Telegram channels reported a strike next to the main campus of Kyiv's Taras Shevchenko National University.

Wakefield will face Warrington in the Super League Grand Final next Saturday after stunning Wigan 33-6

How Jos Leijdekkers turned Sierra Leone into a drug-dealer’s paradise

From this nexus of creation, you could go anywhere. Or you could stay put.

He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.

Meet Your Neighbor Month is an invitation for you to plan something that can bring together your neighbors – in a way that works for you!

If Friedrich Merz and almost everyone else is unpopular, perhaps governments aren’t the issue

From war in Iran to threats against allies, China is reaping the benefits of Trump’s damaging foreign policies.

The independence and moderation of Maine’s Republican senator hardly matters anymore.

With the Alternative for Germany party close to power in a German state, federal officials are planning to limit the group’s access to classified intelligence.

FT finds thousands of Russian payments received by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7

Back onstage, Sheeran acknowledged “mistakes” over the departure of supporting acts, and discussed the “horrific” attack on Israel and the “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza.

The Putin associate with a criminal past, who heads amateur boxing’s governing body, picked up the bill for two nights of Trump Jr’s celebrations – raising questions about their friendship

It is time to put the Republican Party out of our misery.

After the NHL star appeared in an ad campaign for United Russia, it’s fair to start pressing about the impact of his stances – even if he doesn’t want to talk about it

A new sanctions bill is meant to pressure President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to end the war in Ukraine. But President Trump is doubling down on a different approach: offering enticements to Russia.

We just don’t know it yet

The parliamentary vote may be followed by a bigger mobilisation for war

Sebastian Mallaby, the author of a recent book on Google DeepMind, tells Mike Higgins about the urgent need for regulation, why Europe will have to follow the United States’ lead and the way to talk t...

From mass-produced drones to semi-autonomous interceptors, innovation has been the hallmark of Ukraine’s defence against Russia. But now Russia is innovating, too. Although the front line is stable, m...

What goes on inside an elite Ukrainian drone unit? How do its soldiers wage the battles of today while simultaneously building the weapons of tomorrow? Join Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, as she and her colleagues visit one of Ukraine’s most lethal drone units, the first foreign journalists to do so. She asks the people at the heart of the country’s war machine how it operates, what it takes to keep up with the relentless need to innovate and what advice—and warnings—they have for the West.

A Times/Siena national poll suggests Republicans are reeling. Can they come back by depicting Democrats as too far to the left?

The winger was one of the first big-money academy transfers, part of a child labour market that has barely been questioned

In Papua New Guinea, love for rugby league football borders on religion. The country’s leaders and its neighbor, Australia, want to harness the game for geopolitics, and to improve lives.

Andy Burnham seems at ease in his country. Are his opponents?

The constant drumbeat of crises and doom is making us all tired.

A tribunal in The Hague found Hashim Thaci, who led Kosovo’s independence struggle in the 1990s, responsible for arbitrary detention, torture and murder.

Andy Burnham is in some ways a throwback to U.S. Catholic politicians of past decades. He might be a signpost for the future.

And why we should take the risk seriously.

I’ve seen how imbalances in campaign spending can distort democracy. The multimillion-pound gifts to Reform must act as a final wake-up call, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...