Prime Minister François Bayrou broke a blockade of opposition parties that had brought down the government of his predecessor ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday plans to restore his "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran in an effort to stop Tehran ...

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 ...

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 ...

At a newly built dock along Germany’s Elbe River, tankers from the United States unload liquefied natural gas to fuel factories and homes.

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" ...

In this special edition from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Charles Pellegrin sits down with Nigeria's ...

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 ...