Global Briefing: Continent’s leaders hope the new African Credit Rating Agency can help them save tens of billions of dollars in interest payments

Seoul’s test launch of hypersonic missile is a hedge against US betrayal after Washington restricts intelligence sharing

A comprehensive energy ceasefire beyond oil refineries could perhaps follow and open the way to a full ceasefire before winter

Taipei awaits approval of a $14bn arms package as uncertainty over Washington’s commitment to the island grows

Brussels claims Beijing will more than halve hybrid vehicle exports as bloc secures concessions on rare earths and market access

Mayor’s apology did little to cushion the shock that such an action could take place in Taiwan, the most liberal jurisdiction in Asia for LGBTQ+ rights

As lay-offs spread across parts of Europe’s industrial heartland, Brussels believes Beijing’s export surplus can no longer be absorbed by the single market

Global Briefing: While education budgets are squeezed, EU governments are borrowing billions of euros to spend on defence

Global Briefing: Three years after Hamas’s attack, the war in Gaza and mounting international outrage have made Israel more isolated and possibly less secure

Right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro is the favourite to win election runoff with incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Donald Trump’s recent threat to halt diesel exports would have had calamitous consequences for Europe

With tensions rising, next week’s talks will test whether the EU can curb Chinese imports without harming its own economy

US troops invaded Iraq in March 2003 amid the bogus claim that Saddam Hussein had developed weapons of mass destruction

Global Briefing: UK prime minister pledged to consider all options on Europe, including single market membership and rejoining EU as a full member

Document compromises Danish sovereignty over Greenland and gives Washington a bigger role in deciding what happens on the island