Divisions

Drone strikes on Libya's biggest refinery and a bomb that killed a senior general days apart leave Libya's peace looking thin beneath Europe's gas hopes.

Thailand is discovering that the line between a tourist and a resident cannot be managed with the same visa exemption for everyone.

Germany's accusation against Moscow lands beside a French warning, a Chinese pledge on nuclear weapons and a new EU push to close defence gaps.

Nordic Compass believes four national stock exchanges might attract more capital as a single regional market than as four separate systems.

America's spy chief flew secretly to Moscow this week, and mounting evidence points to one worry shaping his agenda, an atomic Iran built with Russian help.