Vladimir Putin has long sought to portray himself as strong statesman and guarantor of stability, at home and abroad. Now the Russian president is grappling with successive crises among his country’s neighbours. It’s an unwelcome test of Moscow’s role as regional watchman. From Belarus to the Caucasus, the Kremlin cannot leave the outcomes of these flare-ups to chance. Yet the ...

Apple Inc has been in the spotlight lately, between antitrust scrutiny of its mobile operating system and the legal battle it’s waging with Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc over its App Store. Those developments pale, however, in comparison to the company’s main event next week: the unveiling of its latest iPhones. For all the talk about Apple’s shift to services ...

Unless you learned Latin and Greek or went to medical school, words such as “sequelae,” “encephalopathy” or “anosmia” probably mean nothing to you. That may be about to change, at least if you try to keep up with the literature about Covid-19. And if you’re like me, the more you learn, the more you’ll worry. Sequelae are the aftereffects of ...