• Sanctions Notices
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The latest round of United Nations sanctions is biting in ways that were not obvious when they were put into force. UPDATE: IRAN STATEMENT: reports are "false."

It's a basic policy that many boards follow - most of the time. Don't all or most of the senior management on the same train, plane or bus. But in the week when Poland faces elections after its p...

What has happened to Turkey? After decades - perhaps even a century - of being irrelevant on the international stage, it has suddenly leapt into a position of being far more than a floating voter...

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. So goes the playground mantra. With governments lining up to criticise Israel's act of piracy and the UN having apoplexy, the c...

As Emirates flight pushed back ready to leave New York for Dubai, Faisal Shahzad, settled back into his seat. He had escaped the USA having planted a car bomb in Times Square, New York when it is...

One might imagine that the island of Puerto Rico, which is often seen as the 50th-and-a-half state of the USA would have suffered badly in the financial crisis that some say is over. But, perhaps...