Angela Merkel

But Edward Snowden’s revelations had lasting impact, advancing privacy protections in Europe and America and accelerating use of encryption

Women leaders are lauded for their handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, but the data is often cherry-picked

Addressing the Covid-19 health and economic crisis requires international relations based on cooperation, the rule of law, collective action and shared principles

Europe is just beginning to emerge from the lockdowns to halt the outbreak, which has taken a huge bite out of national economies

Political ideologies — communism, capitalism, liberalism — and an unrealistic view of the world as we’d like it to be got us into this mess

The world needs someone to step up and take charge – anyone but Donald Trump that is

If nothing changes and infections continue to increase at the current rate, South African healthcare facilities could be further overwhelmed

He must end the Mantashe problem and execute his strategy rather than keep the ANC onside

Both countries have a strong orientation towards multilateralism and democratic values

As Washington overpromises and underdelivers, regional powers are seeking solutions on their own — both through violence and diplomacy

Migrants in Tripoli are staging a hunger strike demanding better protection by the UN as the death toll rises to staggering heights

Clearly the problem lies not in the G20 per se but in its member nations

At the end of 2017, by comparison, 68.5 million people were counted as being forcibly displaced by violence or persecution

Eleven candidates have set their sights on replacing May, who quit as the prime minister over her failure to take Britain out of the EU on time

Volodymyr Zelensky, whose only previous political role was playing the president in a TV show, trounced incumbent Petro Poroshenko