The party of Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday called off a protest in the capital Islamabad after a crackdown by security forces, in which hundreds of supporters were arrested and the rest were forced to flee. Thousands of Khan’s supporters led by his wife converged on Islamabad on Monday from his […]

👉Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 As the death toll rises in Ukraine, what is the endgame for Putin and Zelenskyy? On this week’s episode of The World, Richard and Yalda discuss the possibility of World War III and dissect an alleged Iranian assassination attempt in the […]

The plants are to be situated in Bolivia’s vast Uyuni salt flats (Aizar RALDES) Bolivia said Tuesday it had signed a $1 billion deal with China’s CBC, a subsidiary of the world’s largest lithium battery producer CATL, to build two lithium carbonate production plants in the country’s southwest. Bolivia’s state-owned Bol

The notion that Donald Trump would hike tariffs is hardly a surprise – it was a plan front and centre of his economic pitch during the election campaign. If that softened the landing, it still hit hard in the three countries in the frame. Mexico warned it would cause inflation and job losses in both […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on his security cabinet to approve a ceasefire deal with Lebanon’s Hezbollah group to halt the fighting which has been ongoing for more than a year. “Tonight I will bring before the cabinet a plan for a ceasefire in Lebanon,” he said in an address to the nation […]