In 2014, the US led the effort by governments to blunt the world’s biggest outbreak of Ebola, which took more than 11,000 lives in West Africa before it was declared over in mid-2016. Now, a smaller but more complex outbreak rages in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the US response has been shaped by indifference and bureaucratic haggling. The ...

Jerome Powell’s half-hearted rate cut incensed President Donald Trump, who immediately took to Twitter to say the chairman of the US Federal Reserve had “let us down”. Global equities sunk and the dollar strengthened as Powell chose to cut rates by a quarter- rather than a half-point and said this wasn’t the start of a “lengthy cutting cycle.” But the ...

With trade talks collapsing between the US and China in Shanghai, there’s even less hope of any resumption in American farm exports, which were once portrayed as the foundation of any agreement. That’s not good enough, according to President Donald Trump. Had a trade detente materialised, those expecting a rapid return to the status quo on farm trade likely would ...