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

The latest faultline exposed by the war in Iran is maritime trade and security. The blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, coupled with port attacks in Dubai and worries that Houthi rebels could pile in ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

One of the city’s few true beachfront hotels, the focus here is squarely on the ocean and the pristine coastline ...

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 ...

A law firm instructed by the UK financial watchdog to probe the money-laundering controls of Market Financial Solutions in 2024 found it was complying with the rules. The review, carried out by law ...

Japan is growing increasingly doubtful about the UK’s commitment to their joint fighter development programme with Italy, with crucial development work stalled by British budgetary foot-dragging. The ...

But Silicon Valley billionaires are not our sages; they’re our enablers, keeping us distracted and dumb, and making sure we never stop scrolling for long enough to think about why we are wasting our ...