International

President Trump told the world he would leave the Paris Agreement on climate change, and he began the process at his first opportunity.  But that doesn’t mean the U.S. turned its back on reducing carbon […]

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is fed up, and he isn’t going to stand around while the world burns, according to him. Guterres said on Sunday, just ahead of a two-week climate summit in Madrid, […]

The economic miracle in the Middle Kingdom is becoming more like a run-of-the-mill economy, at least that’s the view of China’s central bank. In its annual financial stability report, the People’s Bank of China said […]

The people of Hong Kong have been protesting for months, escalating their demands for greater democracy and investigations of the police.  As the tension rose on both sides, elections on the island state loomed.  The […]

Governments are making a general economic slowdown worse, and central banks are stepping on the gas to try to fight it, or at least that’s the view of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development […]

What’s a rounding error between friends? The German economy narrowly escaped logging two consecutive quarters of economic decline, the technical definition of a recession, when it unexpectedly posted GDP growth of 0.1% in the third […]

Venice, Italy is famous for its lagoons and canals, but all that water comes at a cost.  The city often floods, with residents and tourists trudging through water and businesses erecting barriers to keep their […]

Mexican Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said on Monday the government had made a number of arrests in the killing of three Mormon women and six children, all dual Mexican-U.S. citizens, last week. Durazo told reporters […]

It was good while it lasted.  As China opened its economy to market reforms and foreign goods over the past three decade, the Chinese developed a taste for many things, including German cars.  But now […]