International Trade

Are the higher post-Hurricane Katrina gasoline prices the result of supply and demand or are they the result of price gouging?

The main topics at the G8 meeting this week in Edinburgh are debt relief and ending poverty in the developing states. These are not problems a G8 session can settle.

This week when Vietnam's prime minister visited the US to be praised by the Bush administration, he was greeted with displays of that fine old American tradition the political protesters.

It was any good Euroskeptic's dream come true - albeit from the least likely source.

Friday 13 May 2005 was a very unlucky day for demonstrators in Abijan, Uzbekistan. That day state security forces fired on a group of protesters who opposed the government's unemployment policies and lack of attention to poverty issues. When the shooting ended, hundreds of people were dead.

The sixtieth anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day seems to re-open many old war wounds across the Continent.

The result of the 5 May general election in Britain seems a foredrawn conclusion, but precisely why is that the situation?

For decades it was recognized as a problem, but in 2005 the illegal immigration issue gained momentum and clammors for resolution.

The finance ministers of the eight most industrialized states held their quarterly meeting this weekend. What emerged in that meeting's communique is very minimal trite chatter.

What do some revised textbooks, a UN Security Council seat, and a revived call to nationalism have in common? They all are factors that partially explain the riots in Beijing that damaged Japan's embassy extensively and injured several employees there.