Japan is the world's fourth largest economy, meaning it accounts for a large part of global trade and growth. Tokyo imports a ...

Russia said that it expected talks with Ukraine later on Wednesday in Istanbul to be "difficult", downplaying expectations of a breakthrough at a meeting between the two sides after nearly three ...

ON the face of it, the US involvement in Ukraine bears little similarity to the 20-year Afghanistan war, not least because there are no American boots on the ground in Europe.  Yet there are ...