The price of crude oil has risen to its highest level since May as renewed attacks in the Strait of Hormuz intensify concerns over energy supplies. A barrel of North Sea Brent
The price of crude oil has risen to its highest level since May as renewed attacks in the Strait of Hormuz intensify concerns over energy supplies. A barrel of North Sea Brent
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More than a century ago, Franz Kafka imagined an America where politics resembled a travelling circus. In his unfinished novel America, written between 1912 and 1914, the young emigrant Karl Roßmann encounters
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump held an extensive telephone conversation on Tuesday focused on resolving the Ukraine crisis and exploring prospects for restoring economic and commercial relations
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In an interview with El País, Scottish writer Douglas Stuart speaks about the subjects that have defined both his life and his fiction: poverty, fractured families, homosexuality, class and the enduring difficulty
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As relations between US President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have become increasingly strained, America’s ambassador to Italy has embarked on a very different form of diplomacy: a 383-foot
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US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s energy hub of Kharg Island was being “blown to smithereens”, after US forces struck two rocket launchers on another Iranian island in the
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The US government is facing a growing warning from bond markets as investors demand increasingly high returns to lend money to the world’s largest economy. At a recent auction of 30-year US
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo U.S. Ambassador Eric Meyer has formally begun his tenure in Sri Lanka, pledging to strengthen ties with Colombo, expand economic opportunities and deepen security cooperation as Washington
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The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States, according
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The White House personnel report lists Natalie Harp as a special assistant and personal aide to the US president, with an annual salary of $150,000. On paper, it is a significant position.
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