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The ruling, enacted through an amendment to an anti-terror law, is legally questionable. It reeks of the kind of dirty tricks ...

But that is what happened in the middle of the night on June 23rd, the 12th day of a war between Israel and Iran. Donald ...

But on June 25th several American media outlets published details of a much more sceptical take from the Defence Intelligence ...

Donald Trump has given two neighbours more reasons to get along ...

Bangladesh still depends heavily on exports of textiles, has woeful infrastructure and is not creating enough jobs for its ...

Indians fear that for all his bluster about making trade “fair”, Mr Trump’s administration is intent on winning unequal gains ...

Policymakers’ hopes that Africa would replace India and the Philippines as the world’s back office have not been realised.

Jane Street is the quant shops’ quant shop, and it does just that, with great success. Last year its trading revenue almost ...

Recent disturbances to the oil price—this time prompted by war—will be familiar to weary oilmen. For although oil has long ...

The clearest answers yet are expected in a video message from the Dalai Lama on July 2nd, four days before his birthday. By Tibetan tradition, after a Dalai Lama’s death, aides and senior lamas ...

Iran’s nuclear programme is distributed among several sites around the country, to make it harder to attack and disrupt. The ...