Opinion

Global drugmakers face a battle in 2026 to secure higher prices for their prescription medicines in Europe after agreeing to cut   U.S. pricing last year under pressure from President Donald Trump. Tougher negotiations could lead drugmakers to delay launches of...

U.S. President Donald Trump's muscular moves in Venezuela and Argentina are adding to a rightward shift across Latin America in a pivotal election year, making foreign cash more likely to flow to the region as investors anticipate market-friendly reforms. The...

In the wake of the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the Mexican government has found itself traversing the most delicate balancing act since President Donald Trump began his second term: strongly condemning the operation while doubling down on bilateral cooperation lest...

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, is one of the main sticking points in U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine. The issue is one of 20 points laid out...

Hungary's Viktor Orban may have got a brief poll boost last month from a costly pensions sweetener but he faces a race against time before April's election to turn the stagnating economy around enough to extend a 15-year grip on...

Brazil has waited for years to see who would get the backing of former President Jair Bolsonaro in the 2026 presidential race. But his endorsement of his eldest son this month raised doubts if the ex-president still has the heft...

When a gunman murdered 35 people in Tasmania in 1996, Australia's political leaders united to implement some of the West's toughest gun laws. Nearly three decades later, after 15 people were killed at a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach, consensus...

Two alleged gunmen who killed 15 people at a Jewish celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach were a father and son, police said on Monday, as Australia began mourning victims of its worst gun violence in almost 30 years. The father,...

The European Central bank meets next Thursday, with traders suddenly speculating a rate hike could be on the cards in 2026. Since policymakers last met in October, there has been more evidence to back up their mantra that policy remains...

In the past week, President Donald Trump and senior Republican lawmakers have presented starkly different views of a top U.S. national security challenge: Russia, its war in Ukraine and the threat it poses to Europe and the United States. On...