South Korea’s president has nominated Shin Hyun-song as the nation’s next central bank governor, turning to an experienced ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s cost of living tsar has suggested that the British government should impose a temporary profit cap on ...

The latest faultline exposed by the war in Iran is maritime trade and security. The blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, coupled ...

US president who pledged to end America’s forever wars has started another Middle East conflict with no easy off-ramps ...

Affluent alumni and businesses should contribute more to university funding to help mitigate rising anger over student loans ...

The US and Israel’s war against Iran appeared to enter a new escalatory phase after Donald Trump threatened to strike Iran’s power plants if the Islamic republic did not open the Strait of Hormuz ...

In the nearly five years since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan the world has paid scant attention to developments in the region, still less managed to influence them. In t ...

Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez is only enacting reforms in the wake of the US capture of former leader Nicolás Maduro due to heavy pressure from Washington, Venezuela’s main opposition ...

The Iran war has brought US oil and gas dealmaking to a standstill after a strong start to the year as volatile crude prices make it difficult to price transactions. Brent crude s ...

Cuba is battling to restore power after suffering its second nationwide power cut in under a week as a US oil blockade puts growing pressure on the energy-starved communist regime ...

Investors concerned about the fallout from the war in the Gulf were initially focused on the inflationary pressure of higher oil prices, triggering a global bond market rout that deepened over the ...

For more than three years, AI has propped up global trade and investment and pushed stock markets from the US to Asia to record highs. Investors have committed trillions of dollars to the technology, ...