With politicians facing wars, or their own political battles at home, The Independent looks around the world at what leaders ...

Read excerpts from columns that appeared in January, February and March 2024 in FP Comment. First instalment in a series.

Five weeks into the job, the jury’s out. In her first month, Badenoch has drawn comparisons with both Margaret Thatcher and ...

Panama's President José Raúl Mulino rejected former President Donald Trump's threat to reimpose U.S. control over the Panama ...

This is the moment an endangered baby gorilla was prevented from traveling out of Turkey, likely to never return back to its ...

Argentina's President Javier Milei said he will simplify its tax system to bring the number of taxes down to just 6, as part ...

Elon Musk has applauded Javier Milei’s progress in “deleting entire departments” of the Argentinian government.

Expectations of investors and markets that started the year awaiting a global stock rally to flunk, swift U.S. interest rate ...

By Naomi Rovnick, Dhara Ranasinghe and Rodrigo Campos LONDON (Reuters) - Markets that began the year with investors expecting ...

The Kenosha Unified School Board has approved a funding mechanism to to repay itself the planning costs for new building ...

The dirty secret that libertarians like myself do not like to acknowledge is that government spending is broadly popular.

One of the most universal cravings of our time is a hunger for compelling and creative leadership,” wrote one of our mentors, ...