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

The US and Israel’s war against Iran appeared to enter a new escalatory phase after Donald Trump threatened to strike Iran’s ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Carriers that departed from the Middle East before Iran’s missile attacks began are due to arrive in the next 10 days ...

Bullfighting was once the ultimate culture war issue for Spain’s radical rightwing Vox party and some of its older voters — a chance to defend the sanctity of tradition, spar with “woke” animal rights ...