One of Russia’s greatest strategic weaknesses has recently turned into an advantage. Climate change may tilt the balance further in Moscow’s favour. Farm production — traditionally an area in which Russia has underperformed due to the low quality of its frigid, drought-prone agricultural land — has boomed over the past decade. That’s important, because food exports have long been a ...

  Boris Johnson struggles for an asylum policy as generous as the rhetoric he has deployed. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has already offered to host a government in exile should Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy be forced to flee. Extending that same spirit of solidarity to those Ukrainians who are similarly dislodged from their homeland would give real underpinning to ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG said the war in Ukraine will cloud prospects for a long-awaited recovery from the coronavirus pandemic as fuel prices climb and flights are diverted to avoid shuttered skies. Europe’s biggest airline cut its annual loss by two-thirds in 2021 as Covid curbs eased, according to a statement. Earnings this year should show a further improvement, but ...