geopolitics

Iranian Sunni cleric killed by unknown gunmen in country's southeast, state media Reuters

State-owned funds announce stock purchases after sharp AI tech sell-off last week

America cannot achieve its aims by negotiation. So regime change is back on the agenda

Dollar drifts as US-Iran conflict intensifies, Brent hits $90 Reuters

US strikes Iran for ninth day; Iran says two oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz exploded and immobilised Reuters

“The president of France is my friend, whoever it may be,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said a few months ago. But what if the next one turns out to be far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen, known for hostility to European integration, objecting to more aid for Ukraine and resisting corrections to

Ending the war and sustaining the peace requires a new approach to regional security.

Islamabad and the new path to global power.

The rift between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates is spilling over from geopolitics into global finance. Global banks — long accustomed to treating the Gulf as a single, large and obliging wallet — are now being forced to make difficult choices, preparing for a time when money, people and a

China’s shipments of rare-earth magnets to the US remain well below pre-trade war levels despite last year’s truce, underscoring concerns in the Trump administration about Beijing’s adherence to that agreement.