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Some 2bn barrels, or 5% of the world’s yearly oil supply, have already been lost because the Strait of Hormuz is shut. Every ...

It turned out that Chinese firms could make ev s well—too well and too cheaply for the comfort of foreign governments, which ...

Samsung Electronics manages a wide portfolio of products, making everything from fridges to phones. Increasingly, however, ...

T he football World Cup is still a month away. But in Mexico the planet’s biggest sporting event has already spawned its ...

In the morning Peter Magyar was sworn in as prime minister in Hungary’s majestic neo-gothic parliament. For his inauguration ...

F rom time to time Prabowo Subianto, Indonesia’s president, evinces magnanimity towards his critics. “Am I really an ...

W hen Bourgeois Fincas, a property agency in Barcelona, lists a flat for rent on the internet, it gets 200 enquiries within ...

Morris is “to me a man who has eaten a great many pills”, wrote Germaine Greer, an Australian feminist. Morris was “a man’s ...

W hen you are not watching your new favourite TV show, you may be thinking about it. How did they come up with that ...

Indonesia has made great advances in the past quarter-century. Under a succession of reasonably pragmatic governments, income ...

Its author, Anno Takahiro, a software engineer and serial AI entrepreneur, has since founded the hottest political startup in ...