The nation is nearing high-income status, a clash with its image as a champion of the Global South.

The U.K.’s welfare bill has ballooned, its borrowing costs are now higher than any G-7 nation and it’s paying more for its debt than even spendthrift France.

Mohammed bin Salman is now caught by an economy weakened by heavy spending and miscalculations of the Houthi threat.

A bipartisan group of senators is challenging his move to allow Russia to ship diesel to the U.S., citing a 2022 law.

The spiraling global energy mess is ensnaring more countries, and it isn’t helping Republican candidates.

Commercial air travel has been dragged into escalating conflicts, with airports, planes and airspace becoming the deliberate target of missile and drone attacks.

The missiles strikes forced authorities to close Saudi Arabia’s international airport in what was the deadliest attack in the kingdom in more than a decade.

Missile attacks on airports are spooking travelers and threatening another pillar of the kingdom’s growth.

Foreign investors are returning but find busted pipelines, chronic blackouts and an industry hollowed out by years of neglect.

Oil prices edged higher as traders weighed President Trump’s pledge not to attack Iran before the U.S. midterm elections against persistent shipping risks in the Persian Gulf and extensive offshore production shut-ins in the Gulf of Mexico.

Chinese academics and media have laid the groundwork for Beijing to claim the Batanes Islands, where U.S. troops frequently train.

The Emirati attorney general provided the first official timeline of Hamam al-Hammami’s travels before the attacker joined the Dubai airline.

A previously unreported Binance document reveals how an Iranian network used the crypto exchange to move money against the wishes of Western governments.

The deposed Venezuelan leader and his wife, already facing narcoterrorism and drug charges, are accused of conspiring to torture American detainees.

Chevron, Shell and Harbour Energy have begun curbing production and evacuating personnel from offshore facilities as the region braces for the hurricane.

Explosions in the buffer zone last month—blamed by Seoul on Pyongyang—have illustrated Kim Jong Un’s determination to keep people from fleeing south.

The curfew comes after a U.S. Marine was arrested on suspicion of the killing of a Japanese woman.

U.S. sanctions on alleged cartel-linked officials have infuriated the president as she faces relentless pressure from the Trump administration.

The claimants said that after the killings, the London Bullion Market Association should have withheld stamp of approval for a Tanzanian mine.

The attacks were the latest to highlight the vulnerability of even hardened targets to hackers using freely available artificial-intelligence tools.