The Vatican bureaucracy has been fine-tuned over hundreds of years to function smoothly even when the pope cannot. By Elisabetta Povoledo A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a ...

Weak governance, poverty, and climate stress have allowed jihadist groups to establish a foothold across the Sahel, with the Liptako-Gourma borderlands of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger now accounting ...