President Biden handed off the best economy to an incoming president since at least the 2001 handoff from Clinton to Bush II. In his last quarter in...

For the first time in years, the U.S. Congress is considering budget bills that could seriously rein in government spending growth. The big-budget...

Since I offered you 10 reasons for modest optimism last week, discontent with the Trump-Musk regime has surged even further. America appears to be...

With President Donald Trump’s re-election and his well-known views, Europe and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky faced an in-tray from...

Civil society organisation Black Sash and trade federation Cosatu have called for a wealth tax instead of an increase in VAT as the Cabinet of the...

Lawyer says ‘astounding’ purge will cost government, after workers with positive reviews cut due to ‘poor performance’

By Xi Zian, Qian Lang and Lucie Lo Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has warned of “many difficulties and challenges” for China’s...

After a month-long pause (and plenty of chaotic chatter from US President Donald Trump), a 25% tariff on goods imported from Canada to the US — as...

By Tatiana Vorozhko U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for a peaceful resolution to Russia’s now three-year full-scale war in Ukraine. VOA...

After more than a decade of war, destruction and economic collapse in Syria, the country’s new government faces an urgent and formidable...