Donald Trump threatened to bomb Oman—a long-standing American ally—if it “gets in the way” of talks with Iran. The president made his threat during a phone call with a Fox News reporter. Oman and Iran ...

Jared Kushner, Mr Trump’s son-in-law and senior envoy, met Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, a day after meeting Hamas leaders ...

On Tuesday voters in Florida will pick the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor in one of the country’s final primary elections before midterms in November. Byron Donalds, a congressman, ...

China’s foreign minister will visit Seoul on Wednesday, as South Korea’s president seeks a formal end to the war with North Korea, China’s ally. The conflict has been frozen since the 1950s. On Sunday ...

There has been some progress, but talks are expected to go right down to the final hours. Should Mr Trump carry out his ...

Nor will Tata’s annual general meeting on Tuesday offer much relief. The meeting is expected to be adjourned after one of the trusts warned it may not send a representative, blocking the board’s ...

Gloomy German spirits may be lifting. In July, the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment, which measures investor confidence, ...

While Republicans remain captive to the president’s whim, Democratic fundraising is decentralised. Individual candidates are ...

Republican party officials insist that Democratic candidates’ cash advantage is temporary, and that the money sitting in ...

Two new books, one by a Nobel-prizewinning economist and one by a Pulitzer-garlanded historian, grapple with the question of ...

Winding dirt tracks leading to Palestinian villages are blocked by rocks and piles of earth, cutting off access from olive ...

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