Despite Pope Francis’s wishes, there’s little appetite for richer nations to help the poorest

Trump's tariffs will make it tougher for emerging economies to service loans but debt relief has fallen off the political agenda

Pope Francis's vast funeral in Rome on Saturday featured a certain amount of politicking amid the splendour, against the magnificent backdrop of St Peter's Basilica.

If the meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump results in progress towards a less inequitable peace than the one currently envisaged by the US, perhaps that will be fitting, given the late pontiff's consistent calls for an end to war.