We are in a real-life game of Risk. In 2019, Fiona Hill, an official at the US National Security Council during Donald Trump’s first term, said the Russians had informally proposed a plan whereby they

About a quarter of the size it used to be. Venezuela has the world’s biggest proven reserves of oil, estimated at more than 300 billion barrels, or around 17% of the global total. The oil lies onshore

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The story of commodities in 2025 was “energy down, metals up hard”, says Ole Hansen of Saxo Bank. Silver and copper are continuing their record-breaking rallies, but the world’s oil men are feeling gl

As President Donald Trump weighs action against Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro, experts warn that intervention could trigger a violent, yearslong insurgency