Seafarers abandoned in the Gulf

On Monday, Israel announced it's preparing a ground offensive into Lebanon. Fighting between the Israeli military and Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy group, has ratcheted up since the death of Iran’s supreme leader more than two weeks ago. Over 900 people have been killed in Lebanon ...  Show more

The war in the Middle East has now entered its third week and shows no sign of ending any time soon. Oil prices have soared and transatlantic relations between the US and its allies are strained. So what are President Trump's options now? And will the Europeans support him in pol ...  Show more

For almost a decade The Economist’s Noah Sneider has been following the story of MH17, the passenger plane shot down over Eastern Ukraine on July 17th 2014. All 298 people on board died. No group, or country, has ever admitted responsibility, leaving the victim's fami ...

Un viejo barco pesquero con 750 personas a bordo, según los testigos, se hunde en el Mar Jónico, cerca de las costas del Sur de Grecia, 15 horas después de su primer aviso de socorro. Sin embargo, el mundo olvidaría pronto lo sucedido: una de las peores tragedias marítimas de ...

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Hardened war-zone doctors say the situation in Gaza is the worst they have witnessed—and that will cost lives long after the current conflict is resolved. Numbers from America’s tight labour market suggest that long-standing gaps between black and white workers <a href="https: ...