China has plenty to gain from lending a hand to its friends battling the coronavirus in Africa. Contrary to some perceptions, that won’t mean opportunistic grabs in oil, copper or arable land. The biggest prize for Beijing is political capital. Sub-Saharan Africa faces its first recession in 25 years, and the continent as a whole is also grappling with the ...

The coronavirus-fuelled collapse in air travel has made it highly unlikely that airlines will be adding new jets to their fleets anytime soon. But when the world’s carriers are ready to take deliveries of airplanes and place new orders again, the odds are increasing that those planes will be made by Airbus rather than Boeing. There are no coronavirus winners ...

Italy’s government has congratulated itself for showing the rest of the Western world how to enforce a lockdown in a democratic society. Nearly two months after that draconian decision, politicians are still keeping their citizens in the dark over the thinking behind their actions. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that he would lift a number of measures that have restricted ...