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Europe has options, but they are limited and will be difficult to co-ordinate. The 27 members of the European Union, plus ...

Mining mergers are back in style. Rio Tinto, the industry’s fourth-most valuable company, has confirmed it is in talks to ...

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That African countries trade too little with each other is a well-worn gripe among the continent’s policymakers. Officially, ...

Self-checkout machines are themselves designed to negotiate several trade-offs. Employers want lower costs. But they also ...

Kent Smetters of the University of Pennsylvania reckons that long-term yields would be over a percentage point lower if ...

AMERICA’S HUNGER for Greenland is setting off an explosive row within NATO.  President Donald Trump, infuriated by European ...

O VER ITS 56 years of existence, the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos—the latest of which will begin on January ...

What would an American strike contemplated by President Donald Trump do to bring about the mullahs’ downfall? And if the ...

On January 11th Mr Trump declared that from January 20th firms charging annual interest of more than 10% on credit-card loans ...

When Iraq was invading Kuwait in 1990 a British Airways plane flew straight into the turmoil. Now its passengers might ...