The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Joe Biden and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the Republicans plus daily ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Joe Biden and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the Republicans plus daily ...

Trump trial: day six At a hearing on Tuesday the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush-money trial will determine whether the former president has violated his gag order, as prosecutors have argued.

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The menace has grown in recent years, fuelled by underground Chinese networks equipped with new technologies that can enable ...

The success of the quasi-merger wave is hard to predict. Although alliances pass the desks of regulators and politicians more easily than takeovers, they can still come unstuck. Last year American ...

When Mr Modi took office, India’s income per person was only a fifth of China’s (at market exchange rates). It remains the same fraction today. These six books help to chart India’s circuitous ...

The president of South Korea probably has views on the arts, too. But because it is a democracy, its artists do not have to ...

One way they can fall foul of Britain’s value-added tax (VAT), a consumption tax, is to have an overindulgent chocolate ...

In addition to the loss of political prerogative, red aristocrats have suffered significant economic losses under Mr Xi. As China’s major wealth-owners, red aristocrats have shouldered a ...

But for those dormant funds to be used, the system first had to be repaired. In 2013, the year before Narendra Modi became ...

Chart: The Economist The difficulties of doing business in India and the lack of broadly available finance are two reasons ...