During and after the Civil War, inventive illustrations allowed Democrats and Republicans to turn American ballots into ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Washington | Oil prices surged on Monday (Tuesday AEDT) as fears grow of an escalating conflict in the Middle East, even as ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would "not stop the war prematurely" in a recorded message during a government memorial service marking the October 7 anniversary. Take a look ...

Last week crude prices rose by 10%, to $78 a barrel, their biggest weekly gain in almost two years (see chart). As we published this, they were bobbing around $77. When the last war involving a ...

There is now less than a month to wait for the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, with a lot of anticipation starting to build around the title. Treyarch has been actively developing the ...

Former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leon Panetta said the war in the Middle East is at a crucial point now and future actions will signal whether there will be an imminent “full scale ...

which risks sparking an internal civil war. Labour's manifesto announced plans to charge 20% tax on private school fees in the aim of using the money generated to increase spending on state schools.

Short-dated call options are an 'inexpensive way to play a worst-case scenario' for oil Options traders are making bullish bets that oil could soon hit $100 a barrel on fears tensions between ...

Taiwan split from the mainland in 1949 during a civil war when the defeated nationalist government fled to the island. Years of pressure Tensions have flared in the Taiwan Strait since 2016 when ...

Options traders are making bullish bets that oil could soon hit $100 a barrel on fears tensions between Israel and Iran could spark a wider Middle Eastern conflict that threatens crude flows On ...

Syria, an Iranian ally which has also battled Israel in the past, is sunk in economic collapse after a decade of civil war ... $70-$90 per barrel in recent years despite the war between Russia ...

The conflict has caused Israel’s budget deficit — the difference between government spending and revenue, mostly from taxes — to double to 8% of GDP, from 4% before the war. Government ...