It’s time to treat sexual violence in war as torture, writes a UN rapporteur
Alice Edwards argues that such crimes are increasingly part of military strategy
THE SOLDIERS left muddy tracks throughout the house—physical traces of the violence they unleashed that day. The boot prints led all the way to the pool of blood around the woman’s body. Her dress had been hauled around her waist, her underwear torn and discarded in the corner. From her badly beaten eyes, she could see her two young children cowering in a corner, the older boy shielding his little sister’s eyes from the horror they had witnessed.
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The bond market’s problems aren’t all to do with Donald Trump, write Anil Kashyap and Jeremy Stein
Dysfunction lies at the heart of the Treasury market
To keep on top of AI, focus on the points where it touches the outside world, writes Martin Chavez
The Alphabet director suggests drawing inspiration from the way financial markets and railways are policed
Trump’s approach to geoeconomics carries dark echoes, writes Maurice Obstfeld
Choosing guns over butter in trading relationships will make America both poorer and less safe
Even Americans don’t want Trump’s barmy tariffs, writes Douglas Irwin
The trade historian predicts that the damage will be geopolitical as well as economic
The Le Pen ruling is good for liberal democracy, writes Tarik Abou-Chadi
The Oxford professor says it shouldn’t matter whether the verdict emboldens the hard right or not
The boss of Siemens on how to re-energise the German economy
More must be done to nurture innovators while driving the completion of the European project, writes Roland Busch