West Texas Intermediate futures are down 6% this week, touching an almost two-year low of US$65.21 ($87.35) a barrel.

Over three decades before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the CIA funnelled 10m books into the eastern bloc, including George Orwell’s “1984”, John le Carré’s spy thrillers and Virginia Woolf’s ...

The CIA World Factbook describes the uninhabited islands, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as “80% ice-covered” and “bleak” in the case of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands as ...

Shocking documents declassified by the CIA have revealed a secret mission ... to locate his 'hideout in Argentina' just months after World War II ended. Over the next decade, that search ...

Less than two weeks ago there was SignalGate, the Trump administration’s national security scandal that potentially ...

According to the newly declassified documents, the ‘reconnaissance operation’ likely targeted Lop Nur test range in Xinjiang, ...

President Trump has shown a willingness to fracture the trans-Atlantic alliance with his tariffs and demands for higher military spending. By Steven Erlanger The rise and fall of Yoon Suk Yeol ...

Elon Musk’s efforts to slash $1 trillion in federal spending adds another risk for battered tech investors, threatening to sap billions in revenue from an already precarious sector. Tesla CEO ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Parliament on Friday in a world-first law ... blindfolded into a brick wall by rushing this legislation.

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For now, traders on Wall Street are largely expecting the Fed to deliver two or three cuts to rates by the end of 2025. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 dropped 1.1% to 5,614.66 for its latest swerve in a ...