Iran's attacks on Dubai have damaged key infrastructure including the airport and port, testing the emirate's reputation as a safe business hub in a volatile region.

Pensions are, in other words, a huge economic liability for the EU. At the same time, however, they are a gigantic wasted ...

In an age of blood-soaked realpolitik, Europe stands out. Yes, it is meek, a vegetarian in a world of omnivorous geopolitical rivals. Certainly, it is often muddled, its power dissipated among dozens ...

The lopsided encounter embodies the American and Israeli campaign as a whole. At the political level, American officials have ...

E ver since turning communist, China has set top-down targets for its economy. Mao Zedong wanted to double steel output in a ...

Ken Paxton, Texas’s populist attorney-general, and John Cornyn, the four-term incumbent, advanced to a run-off on May 26th to ...

Add the much smaller health-care operation and the three heirs are worth $600bn, five times GE ’s value before the split was ...

Should AI labs unquestioningly obey the Pentagon? Donald Trump’s administration seems to think so. Last week it banned ...

America continued negotiating with Iran until 36 hours before the strike, with further talks planned. Before the war in June, the Israel Defence Forces ( IDF) had evacuated key bases. They took no ...

T he American-Israeli campaign against Iran is not abating. Since February 28th the two countries have bombed a range of targets, including Iran’s leadership, military infrastru ...

The Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ), a six-nation club, bristles with modern air defences. Five of the six countries—Oman ...

After America and Israel struck at the heart of the mullahs’ regime on February 28th, killing its supreme leader, what ...