Category Policy areas

BRUSSELS — Ahead of next month’s United Nations climate summit, the European Union is playing its cards close to its chest. The bloc’s finance ministers on Tuesday approved the 27 countries’ joint negotiating position regarding the central issue of the upcoming…

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, it exploited the sectarian fissures of a country shattered by civil war. This time, despite long-running divisions, many Lebanese are desperate to preserve a spirit of national solidarity in the face of the Israeli…