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South Africa's Economy Turns a Corner as Fitch Ends 21-Year Wait

JOHANNESBURG, June 10 -- For the first time in more than two decades, the news out of South Africa's economy is the kind its government has waited a generation to deliver. Africa's most industrialised... Read More


Tommy Robinson Surfaces in Moscow With Elon Musk's Father, Promising Some Trouble

The video, June 10 -- Tommy Robinson, the most recognizable figure on Britain's far right, spent Tuesday evening in the bar of Moscow's Hotel Metropol filming himself with Errol Musk, father of the wo... Read More


China Finally Got Inflation, and It Is the Kind Nobody Wanted

New Delhi, June 10 -- For two years China's problem was that prices would not rise. The problem that arrived on Wednesday is that the wrong ones now do. Factory-gate prices jumped 3.9 percent in May f... Read More


India approves Bristol, York, UNSW campuses as its own exam system burns

NEW DELHI, June 10 -- The ministry whose chief has a resignation ultimatum expiring on Saturday spent the week handing out licences to teach. India's education ministry issued Letters of Approval to t... Read More


Kallas Comes to Dublin to Ask Why Europe's Biggest Alumina Plant Still Feeds Russia

New Delhi, June 10 -- The European Union's chief diplomat arrived in Ireland on Tuesday carrying one of the more awkward questions in the bloc's sanctions arsenal: why Europe's largest alumina refiner... Read More


The Netherlands Kills a $115 Million American Tech Deal Because Washington Can't Be Trusted With Dutch Data

THE HAGUE, June 10 -- The Dutch government has blocked the American IT company Kyndryl from buying Solvinity, the cloud provider that hosts the digital identity system Dutch life runs on, in a veto th... Read More


FDA Clears First New Sunscreen Filter in Decades, Behind Europe

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- For the better part of three decades, Americans reaching for sunscreen have been handed a weaker shield against the sun than the one sold routinely in European and Asian pharmaci... Read More


Wars Hit Highest Level Since 1945 as the Western Order Frays

UPPSALA, June 9 -- The world in 2025 was more violent than at any point since the generation that built the modern international order walked off the battlefields of the Second World War. The planet r... Read More


Trump Family Reaped $500 Million From Crypto as Investors Lost Big

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The shape of the arrangement is by now familiar: the Trump family comes out ahead, and the people who bought in are left holding the loss. New disclosures show that the president... Read More


Social Security Retirement Fund Will Run Dry in 2032, a Year Earlier

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The fund that keeps tens of millions of older Americans out of poverty is now set to run empty a year sooner than the government said only twelve months ago. In their annual repo... Read More