The monsoon allowed Gujarati merchants on India’s west coast to sail out to Arabia and east Africa on the back of its winds ...
Africa still lags behind Latin America, which exports four times as much in agricultural goods (an average of $341bn per year ...
On Sunday the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, OPEC +, meets to decide oil-production quotas ...
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S TANDING OUTSIDE the new “Number 10 North” office, set up by Andy Burnham in the centre of Manchester, is a statue of John ...
The Russian strikes are increasing pressure on Ukraine to restock its American-made Patriot missile-defence systems with ...
In Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, pictures of Abdul-Malik al-Houthi are a frequent sight. He glowers from billboards, with a dagger ...
The scale of the mass movement was compounded by three things: a ruling this month from Spain’s Supreme Court giving ...
Spain said at least 48,300 people had returned to Morocco on Friday, a day after thousands of migrants surged into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa. More than 50,000 stormed the border, ...
UEFA, which oversees European football, said it had lost confidence in Gianni Infantino, adding to the pressure on FIFA’s boss. FIFA, football’s global governing body, scrapped a plan devised by Mr ...