Iran has appointed a veteran politician to head the country’s top security body, signalling what observers said was an attempt to rein in hardliners and reorder the country’s defence establishment ...

Under the terms of the sanctions regime, western-linked companies are prohibited from buying seaborne oil priced above a G7 price cap fixed at $60 a barrel for crude. The shadow fleet has allowed ...

A report published by Sir Jon Cunliffe, a former deputy governor for the Bank of England, recommended that a new regulator replace Ofwat and assume its wider responsibilities, in the wake of public ...

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Linda Yaccarino has been appointed as chief executive of a telehealth start-up that offers weight loss medication, weeks ...

Launch of free and more transparent AI systems marks departure from group’s subscription-based closed approach ...

Former apparatchik played leading role in regime change and country’s pivot to west but also brutally repressed dissent ...

The UK will pay the full cost of transporting migrants in both directions under its new “one in one out” deal with France, in a sign of how keen Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was to secure an ...

The chapter titles are pure sitcom (“She had to hold the family together”, “She had to survive recess”, “She had to be cool in front of Yumi”) but, instead of laugh-out-loud humour, you get something ...

Doge’s cuts have generated attention, but misspending and fraud cost hundreds of billions of dollars each year ...

President’s decision to sack Bureau of Labor Statistics chief undermines faith in official data, economists warn ...

Donald Trump accused banking giants JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America of turning away his business, escalating rightwing ...