BRASILIA, Aug. 22 -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spent eighty minutes on the telephone to Donald Trump on Friday, and somewhere inside them he asked the American president to convene an extraordinary se... Read More
TEHRAN, Aug. 22 -- Abbas Araghchi's answer to the largest sanctions campaign in American history was a list, and it was short enough to fit inside a single post. Fourteen years ago Washington promised... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- 20 UTC on August 22, at a distance of 404,644 km. That is as far away as the moon gets in this lunation, and it is the reason the full moon arriving next week will be one of the ... Read More
TEHRAN, Aug. 22 -- For the family of the textile merchant in the Isfahan bazaar, the math of the war has arrived in the form of new geography. A cotton shipment that used to clear the port of Shahid R... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- JAKARTA - China has never done this before, not with Russia, not with Pakistan, not with any country. The ministerial format Beijing unveiled on Thursday in Jakarta - a joint for... Read More
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The millions of American parents who trusted TikTok to keep their young children off the platform received no compensation this week. The $400 million that ByteDance agreed to p... Read More
ROME, Aug. 22 -- The arithmetic of air defence has been running the wrong way for years. A one-way attack drone costs a few tens of thousands of dollars. The missile fired to stop it costs a million. ... Read More
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 22 -- The United States is preparing to pay the United Nations $725 million, which is a large sum, a welcome one for an organisation that spent this year rationing cash, and less ... Read More
HAVANA, Aug. 22 -- Miguel Diaz-Canel reached for the word executioners on Friday, and the first name on Washington's new list is a former Cuban intelligence officer who spent thirteen years in an Amer... Read More
NEW DELHI, Aug. 22 -- Saima Wazed has warned the World Health Organization through her lawyers that she may go to court unless it opens an independent investigation into the decision that removed her ... Read More