Since the dawn of time, human beings have been on the move in search of a better life. Today, more than 270 million people live outside the country of their birth, 51 million more than in 2010. That number includes economic migrants, refugees, displaced people, and plain old expats. Here's a look at the countries where migrants, both leaving and arriving, make up the largest share of the population.
The move pushes the US closer to a shutdown at midnight on Friday.
On Tuesday, Angola offered to mediate an end to the conflict between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group.
The tits and tats are getting bigger as the US’s various trade wars escalate.
Countries gathered in Rome in late February to finalize key decisions left unresolved after last year’s COP16 summit in Colombia. In Italy, negotiators agreed to the first global deal for finance conservation, which aims to achieve the landmark goal of protecting and restoring 30% of the world’s land and seas by 2030. Eurasia Group’s María José Valverde interviewed Adrian Gahan, the ocean lead for Campaign for Nature, a global campaign founded in 2018 to safeguard the 30x30 target, as we look ahead to the UN ocean conference and continue building on the nature agenda for 2025.
Seventy percent of Americans are sports fans – and it shows in their spending. As they splurge on sports gear and attending live games, US households are spending an average of $1,112 annually on sports. Explore and subscribe to Bank of America Institute to learn how sports are shaping the business landscape.
For someone who campaigned on lowering grocery prices on day one and rode widespread economic discontent to the White House, Donald Trump sure seems bent on pursuing policies that will increase that discontent.
An Israeli soldier stands next to a gate on a road near the Israel-Lebanon border, in Israel, on March 12, 2025.
Israel and Lebanon have agreed to start talks “as soon as possible” on their disputed land border nearly four months after a ceasefire ended the most recent war between the two countries.
Greenland’s center-right parties trounced the ruling left-wing coalition in Tuesday’s election. In a blow to US President Donald Trump’s plans to annex the Arctic territory, a once-marginal party that favors a slow separation from Denmark is set to lead the next government.
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