World View

Ukraine's major cross-border attack into the Kursk region of Russia last week has triggered the usual claims and counter-claims.

Carles Puigdemont, the self-exiled leader of the Catalan separatist movement, aspires to become the new Scarlet Pimpernel.

When you spend four years writing a book on climate change, you get to know most of the leading players. I have never seen them so dismayed.

The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip since October’s Hamas attacks on Israeli settlements will reach 40,000 people in the next week or so — it’s back up to about 50-100 civilian dead per day.

The past week has been a roller-coaster ride for Donald Trump.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iranian TV just before the second round of voting on Sunday "I have heard that people’s zeal and interest is higher than in the first round [of Iran’s presidential election] . . . It is wrong to assume those who abstained in the first round are opposed to Islamic rule."

Nothing else in France looks like the 1930s, so why should fascism?

By Friday we will know the outcome of the British election.

Cyril Ramaphosa is the president of South Africa again, but everything else is different.

Scarcely a week passes without some media pundit or attention-seeking historian warning that a great war is nigh.