For all the talk of a festival of football across three nations, the 2026 World Cup is, financially, an advertising platform that happens to stage matches. FIFA is targeting roughly $11 billion across its 2023–26 commercial cycle, with the tournament…
Switzerland goes to the polls on Sunday on one of Europe’s most closely watched immigration votes: a binding cap on the resident population at 10…
Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, proposed this month to create a new class of company owned and operated by artificial intelligence, with human shareholders permitted but…
The 2026 World Cup, kicking off 11 June, arrives buried under problems that have little to do with football. Unprecedented complexity. This is the first…
What began as an environmental protest on the Adriatic coast has hardened into the most serious challenge to Prime Minister Edi Rama's 13-year rule. The…
The Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat assessment of Israel to "critical," its highest designation, NBC News and The New York Times reported, citing current…
Chinese intelligence officers are posing as recruiters and headhunters to lure UK government, military and parliamentary staff into handing over state secrets, MI5 has warned…
Moscow's children's rights commissioner, Olga Yaroslavskaya, has proposed lowering Russia's effective working age to 12 and reviving Soviet-era summer labour camps for schoolchildren. Framed as…
