Boris Johnson is the latest in a long line of UK prime ministers who attended Eton College, an elite boarding school near London. Since the 1720s, just three schools – Eton, Harrow School, and Westminster School – have produced a majority of the country's leaders. Here's a snapshot of where other prime ministers spent their formative years.
The Assad family no longer rules Syria. So how did a brutally repressive regime rule with an iron fist for five decades, only to collapse in two weeks? To help make sense of these shocking past few weeks and the potential power vacuum to come is Middle East expert and Beirut-based journalist Kim Ghattas on GZERO World with Ian Bremmer.
Economic Outlook 2025 reveals the trends and shifts that will shape the global economy in the coming year, according to the Mastercard Economics Institute. The report explores a few key economic themes, leveraging Mastercard’s aggregated and anonymized data to provide a unique perspective. This includes cyclical changes – such as shifts in consumption as central banks lower rates or prices change – and structural changes like the impact of migration on capital flows or workplace flexibility driving greater female workforce engagement.
Listen: After 14 years of brutal civil war and, recently, a largely frozen conflict, Syria's regime fell this week like a house of cards. So what comes next? Middle East expert and Beirut-based journalist Kim Ghattas joins Ian Bremmer on the GZERO World Podcast to help make sense of these shocking past few weeks and the potential power vacuum to come.
The last time Syrians sought to oust the Bashar Assad regime, the ensuing crackdown sparked a 14-year-long civil war, killing over 500,000 Syrians and creating nearly six million refugees. So why did things change this time? Ian Bremmer explains.
The Assad regime is gone, but how much of the old regime's personnel should the country's new rulers keep around?
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol looks highly likely to be impeached on Saturday after the leader of his own party on Thursday told members to vote according to their “conviction and conscience.”
Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud announced a critical agreement to end a yearlong dispute over Ethiopia’s access to the Arabian Sea.
For Romania and Bulgaria, former Soviet Bloc countries that are now EU members, the light finally changed from red to green on Thursday as EU interior ministers agreed to let the two countries fully join the border-free Schengen zone on Jan. 1.