Category: 4. World

In German politics, the rule is supposed to be simple: no cooperation with the far right. The “Brandmauer” — the firewall against the far-right populist AfD party — is treated as a democratic red line, at least at a national level. But in…

The sums invested in different countries around the world by oil-rich Gulf states are astronomical.

Sovereign wealth funds belonging to countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and other Gulf countries manage around…

Replacing Iran’s top national security official Ali Larijani after he was killed in an Israeli strike on Tuesday won’t be an easy task.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran lashed out following the killing of one of its top officials in an airstrike with attacks on its Persian Gulf neighbors and Israel on Wednesday, using some of its…

HONG KONG (AP) — About 90 ships including oil tankers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the outset of the war with Iran and it is still exporting millions of barrels of oil at a time when the…

Iran’s supreme national security council confirmed the death of its chief, Ali Larijani, on Tuesday evening. Israel said earlier that it had killed Larijani in an airstrike.

Larijani was the most senior Iranian figure killed since  Iran’s…

Israel says it killed Iran’s intelligence minister in a Tuesday night strike on Tehran, a day after it killed two other senior Iranian leaders in strikes on the capital. The attacks demonstrate Israel’s…

Meanwhile, Israel has been carrying out strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, where the health ministry says at
least six…