If America held the island, it would hope to deny Iran much of the 2.4m to 2.8m barrels of oil that it still exports daily.

As these reach their destinations this week, energy importers reliant on the stuff, particularly for electricity generation, ...

The White House argues that those costs are worth bearing, because tariffs will rescue American manufacturing from a decades-long slump. On April 2nd last year Mr Trump set out his “Liberation Day” ...

News outlets put a premium on making the country seem harmonious ...

Against that, experts agree, a longer conflict would damage China too much. As the biggest importer of energy and largest ...

The private-credit party looks like it might be over. After the global financial crisis of 2007-09, non-bank lenders nabbed ...

S ome countries assign citizenship on the basis of blood or length of residency. America does not. Since 1868, when the 14th ...

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Binyamin Netanyahu faces electoral challenges despite public support for Israel's conflict, with his coalition trailing in ...

They appeared to show a market in Fangshan, a district in south-west Beijing, mired in chaos as a man rammed a construction ...

Britain's Conservative and Reform UK parties propose mass deportations of illegal immigrants, but face significant logistical ...