The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has once again found itself at the centre of one of Africa’s most serious public health emergencies. Confirmed Ebola infections have now exceeded 2,000, making this the country’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. More than 750 people have already died, while hundreds of
If you’d shown an energy trader in June the price chart for July, they’d have assumed something had gone badly wrong. Brent crude went from grinding toward $70 a barrel, its lowest level since before Iran and the US started trading strikes back in February, to jumping nearly 7% in
If you’d shown an energy trader in June the price chart for July, they’d have assumed something had gone badly wrong. Brent crude went from grinding toward $70 a barrel, its lowest level since before Iran and the US started trading strikes back in February, to jumping nearly 7% in
There’s a number worth sitting with: automakers have absorbed more than $35 billion in US tariff costs since 2025, and Japan’s six largest carmakers alone are on track for a combined $40 billion hit by March 2027. Toyota’s share of that bill runs to roughly $9.1 billion for its current
There’s a number worth sitting with: automakers have absorbed more than $35 billion in US tariff costs since 2025, and Japan’s six largest carmakers alone are on track for a combined $40 billion hit by March 2027. Toyota’s share of that bill runs to roughly $9.1 billion for its current
There is a certain irony in a party that pioneered all-women shortlists back in 1993 still not having managed, more than three decades later, to put a woman in charge of it. Andy Burnham is about to become Britain’s prime minister without ever having had to beat a female rival
Jakarta played host this week to a meeting that could reshape how people and cargo move between Southeast Asia and the Gulf. Indonesia’s Transportation Minister, Dudy Purwagandhi, sat down with his Saudi counterpart, Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser, Minister of Transport and Logistics Services, on Monday, and the two walked away
Jakarta played host this week to a meeting that could reshape how people and cargo move between Southeast Asia and the Gulf. Indonesia’s Transportation Minister, Dudy Purwagandhi, sat down with his Saudi counterpart, Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser, Minister of Transport and Logistics Services, on Monday, and the two walked away
Jakarta played host this week to a meeting that could reshape how people and cargo move between Southeast Asia and the Gulf. Indonesia’s Transportation Minister, Dudy Purwagandhi, sat down with his Saudi counterpart, Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser, Minister of Transport and Logistics Services, on Monday, and the two walked away
Egypt’s engineering sector has quietly become one of the country’s export success stories, and now officials want to turn that momentum into something much bigger. The government’s target: push engineering exports from roughly $6.5 billion in 2025 to $13 billion by 2030, effectively doubling the sector’s footprint on global markets