A FTER A DRAMATIC recent purge of China’s generals, the country’s ruler, Xi Jinping, faces another stressful task. A five-yearly churn of leadership posts from bottom to top h ...

All bar one. As its tankers keep plying the strait (see chart 1), Iran is now earning nearly twice as much from oil sales each day as it did before American and Israeli bombs started falling on ...

I N A WAR in which tens of thousands of bombs have been dropped across the Middle East, killing perhaps thousands of ...

I N A WAR in which tens of thousands of bombs have been dropped across the Middle East, killing perhaps thousands of ...

MOSES brought ten commandments down from Mount Sinai. If only the UN’s proposed list of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were as concise. The SDGs are supposed to set out how to improve the lives ...

New research reveals how dogs spread across Europe from 16,900 years ago, with DNA evidence showing eastern and western ...

Iran has been hit thousands of times and struck back against neighbours with drones and missiles. The conflict now spans at ...

N EARLY TWO decades ago, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy”. They argued ...

Iran’s conflict with Iraq in the 1980s provides valuable lessons for today, writes Richard Cockett, a senior editor ...

But as Iran contemplates renewed talks, the question is who has the authority to strike a deal with America and ensure it ...

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The importance of a single passage depends not just on the trade it carries, but on the available alternatives. For some passages—such as the Red Sea, where attacks by the Houthis have sent insurance ...