Tehran's oil exports brought in $53 billion in 2023 and $54 billion a year earlier, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates, and output during 2024 was running at its highest ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday plans to restore his \"maximum pressure\" campaign on Iran in an effort to stop Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and drive its oil exports ...

From Ghana to Namibia, recent appointments of women to top political positions have been encouraging. But with more women in significant roles, are African nations really boosting female political ...

Like traders in a souk, politicians keep tossing out new spending targets: 2%, 3% or even 5%. The decisive factor, however, ...

France’s core state budget deficit narrowed in 2024, offering the government some relief as it clings to power in a tussle ...

In Europe, looming Trump's tariffs are nudging Berlin and Paris closer, driving French President Emmanuel Macron and German ...

France hosts top tech players next week at an artificial intelligence summit meant as a "wake-up call" for Europe as it ...

France's prime minister has used special executive powers to get the 2025 budget approved without a vote by lawmakers. Now he ...

Exactly 34 days after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu presented Nigeria’s 2025 Appropriation Bill (on December 18, 2024) to the joint session of the National Assembly, Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as ...

"If left alone, we could have wiped out the US' total auto industry,” a Japanese speaker said at Davos. “But at the time, we understood politics" ...

ECB officials reduced the deposit rate by a quarter-point to 2.75%. They continued to describe their current monetary-policy stance as ‘restrictive’, signaling more loosening is in the pipeline, while ...