When landlocked Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan started fighting late last year and their border crossings closed, Afghans turned to their western neighbor, Iran, for an...
A partial reopening of the Strait of Hormuz may be on the horizon. But is a lasting regional settlement any closer? The prevailing narrative is that...
The coming weeks promise great excitement for 54 million Colombians, unlike anything they have experienced in years. The national football team will compete in the World...
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have rapidly invested in artificial intelligence infrastructure over the past year. In recent days, they have further accelerated...
Gold may be a “barbarous relic,” as John Maynard Keynes once observed, but it remains the relic of choice among central banks. Emerging-market central banks have...
As the US and Iran jostle over the Strait of Hormuz, there is little global attention on another attempted blockade, this one by Islamist militants...
If predictions of a “super El Niño” ocean warming event are realised later this year, the global economy could be hit hard by yet more...