Government
Putin hopes hardship will force Ukrainians to sue for peace – polling suggests it won’t work
Vladimir Putin has a theory of victory in Ukraine.
News
Editorial coverage from the Liege Belgium Wire newsroom.
- Business
Anthropic’s record US$2 trillion stock market listing highlights the growing risks for all of us
Anthropic, developer of AI chatbot Claude, has filed its prospectus and is expected to go public on Wall Street in November at a valuation of up to US$2 trillion.
- Government
In opting for Lula, Brazil made a conservative choice to elect a man of the left over one of the far right
The 2026 elections in Brazil played out amid an widespread assumption repeated around the world: that the country was polarized and that would inform the vote.
- Science
The upside of untidiness: why a little mess can be good for your home
If we’re to follow the philosophy of organiser extraordinaire Marie Kondo, a tidy home is a better home.
- Government
Israeli election: why nobody has been talking about Palestinian statehood
As Israelis head to the polls on October 27 one major issue that has not received serious attention during the campaign is Israel’s flat rejection of Palestinian statehood.
- Education
‘We changed the system’: how Serbian students ended Alexander Vučić’s 12 years in power
Serbia’s student-led political movement has secured a historic election victory. Preliminary results suggest the so-called Student List has won 141 of the 250 seats in parliament, with the ruling Serbian Progressive Party taking 104.
- Government
Lula wins a ‘miracle’ election in Brazil. Now comes the hard part: putting the country back on the right track
Three weeks ago, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s political obituaries had all been written.
- Science
Unlocking the secrets of the ‘Dragon Man’ skull – and what it reveals about human evolution
In September 2018, China Daily ran a story that found its way to my desk. It featured the photograph of a beautifully preserved fossil skull with huge brow-ridges, with a caption speculating – wrongly, as it would turn out – that it belonge…
- Culture
The Crucible: Arthur Miller’s morality tale was as much a reaction to his own marital failings as it was to the ‘red scare’
Written at the height of the cold war “red scare”, Arthur Miller’s 1952 play The Crucible was a retelling of the 17th-century Salem witch trials (1692-93) which soon became the classic parable of mass hysteria.
- Government
How Lula turned four lessons from the presidential elections in Colombia into a comeback in Brazil’s Sunday runoff
On the night of last 4 October, Brazil’s left woke up to the scenario it had discredited for months. Far right senator Flávio Bolsonaro finished the first round in the country’s presidential election roughly two million votes ahead of Presi…
- Government
Brazil’s election puts at risk country’s role as a bulwark against Trump interventionism in the Americas
On Oct. 25, Brazilians will return to the polls for the second round of the presidential election. The results will matter not only for the future of country itself, but also for the region and the world.
- Science
America’s death penalty: why executions are rising again
After two decades of decline, the number of executions in the United States began rising sharply again in 2025. Last year, 47 people were put to death – the highest number in more than 15 years.