Around 20% of the world’s oil and gas passes through one slim waterway that separates Oman and Iran. The third Gulf war has throttled the Strait of Hormuz, causing shipping traffic to collapse, oil ...
On March 8th the denizens of Tehrangeles gathered at the University of California, Los Angeles, for a concert in advance of ...
A lack of trust in America and Israel, internal divisions and the risk of domestic strife all hamper a unified response ...
Energy costs are shooting up—and with them investors’ expectations of inflation around the world. Traders are rapidly ...
Locally this subsidy spectacle has been dubbed the “hongbao wars”, in reference to the red envelopes of cash typically handed out at new year. Already most Chinese AI companies were making their ...
China, in the official telling, is composed of 56 separate ethnicities. Parliamentary representatives who are Han, the dominant ethnic group, generally attend in grey and black business attire. But ...
F or British ministers, a trip to northern Norway is à la mode. In February Al Carns, the armed-forces minister and former ...
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Preparations ordered by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, before his assassination on February 28th, proceeded as ...
F IFTEEN YEARS ago the state of Baden-Württemberg sent tremors across Germany by electing the country’s first—and so far only ...
Read all our coverage of the war in the Middle East Such attacks point to a new phase in the third Gulf war. When it began on February 28th, both America and Iran might have hoped for a swift end.
British legislation to combat this has not kept pace with more robust laws elsewhere. Asda, Morrisons, Tesco and Waitrose, for example, all sell tomato products that would be barred from America under ...