State of unrest

THROUGH A MIXTURE OF AUDACITY, RUTHLESS-ness, and luck, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has upended the balance of power between Israel and Iran, its most threatening regional adversary, and remade

IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN THROUGH the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had re

“He came, he bombed, he ended the war” – or so Donald Trump wants the world to believe, says The Economist. Two days after US bombers struck Iranian nuclear facilities, Trump announced a ceasefire in

Controversy of the week The assisted dying bill ...

Oil shock averted? World leaders and commodity traders have spent the past fortnight on edge as the long-running Iran-Israel conflict turned hot. Matters came to a head at the weekend when the US dire

In the early hours of last Friday, two ...