President Trump’s arrival in Ireland in the week of the 75th anniversary of D-Day should give pause for thought. The 45th President of the US has propelled himself to the top, harnessing untapped disruptive energies. Yet the nation he represents has played a pivotal role in establishing and maintaining world order, something that in this […]

PARIS — How small he is! Small in spirit, in valor, in dignity, in statecraft, this American president who knows nothing of history and cares still less and now bestrides Europe with his family in tow like some tin-pot dictator with a terrified entourage. To have Donald Trump — the bone-spur evader of the Vietnam […]

CHICHALUM, Guatemala — Painted on the side of a health post in this rural town in Guatemala’s western highlands is a simple message: Breast-feeding is a lifelong gift. But around the world, breast milk is a gift that many children are given incorrectly or not given at all — and the results are devastating. Health […]

LONDON/FRANKFURT/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. buyout fund Carlyle and German asset manager DWS are gearing up to bid for British rail and bus firm Arriva after holding preliminary talks with its German owner Deutsche Bahn, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. An auction process led by Deutsche Bank and Citi is expected to kick […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Big cross-border mergers in stock exchanges look “hard” given political opposition to opening up bourses to foreign ownership, London Stock Exchange Group Chief Executive David Schwimmer said on Wednesday. “There have been some big painful failures out there in the industry,” Schwimmer told the annual FIA IDX derivatives industry conference. The LSE […]

For Democrats to overcome the Republican advantage in the struggle for control of the Senate, they will need a massive turnout effort and a wave election even more powerful than the one that won them the House in 2018. But first let me backtrack for a minute. The political landscape would seem, on the surface, […]

Erica Rice calls her 2017 V.B.A.C., or vaginal birth after cesarean, “a herculean team effort.” Not least of which because she delivered twins. The team on call at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston provided Ms. Rice with support and comfort measures, like turning her side to side, and gave her a well-placed […]

By Donatella Rovera The United States, British and French militaries were successful in pushing ISIS out of Raqqa, Syria. But at what cost? Western forces have failed to acknowledge the extent of civilian deaths they caused and have yet to make a long-term commitment to help the survivors rebuild. They must further investigate what happened: […]

(Reuters) – Philip Green’s struggling Arcadia fashion group has secured the backing of Britain’s pensions regulator for a major restructuring, increasing the chances of his Topshop-to-Dorothy Perkins business avoiding a collapse into administration. Late on Tuesday Arcadia said it would provide 210 million pounds ($267 million) of security over assets for its pension schemes, including […]

(Reuters) – UK competition watchdog said on Wednesday it was investigating the merger agreement between British lenders Charter Court Financial Services and OneSavings Bank. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was considering whether a merger of the two would substantially reduce competition. The banks announced the merger in March that would create one […]