In their unanimous opinion, the justices wrote that this was directly traceable to race, particularly the poor education ...

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Muhammad bin Salman, the crown prince and de facto ruler, often known as MBS, has been trying for a decade to ease Saudi ...

Saudi Arabia’s influence in the region and with Mr Trump means that MBS could yet do more. His country has already hosted ...

There is no specific intelligence at present that suggests Russia intends to attack NATO. But intentions are fluid. In his ...

However, backing Ukraine is not enough to make the entire continent safe and Mr Trump is unlikely to offer much help, so ...

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Now Donald Trump’s return to the White House has jolted currency markets back to life. In April a measure of the volatility ...

Mr Merz’s commitment to restoring a long-absent German voice to European and international debates is not in doubt, and he ...

Until recently OPEC + was showing restraint. Strict quotas, cutting the group’s production by nearly 6m b/d, were introduced ...

America’s new president was threatening a trade war against China and other commercial partners that would lift the dollar ...