But this isn’t the first time New York has been written off. The city has survived far worse — the Spanish flu, the Depression, deindustrialisation and white flight, fiscal crises that nearly ...

Nearly 750,000 Israeli Jews live in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, with some 3mn Palestinians who are under Israeli military rule and partial Palestinian autonomy. Some settlements, ...

Greater Manchester Police has refused to say if it examined Jihad Al-Shamie’s mobile phone in unrelated probes in the months before his attack on a synagogue in the city, adding to questions about ...

The sharp rise in foreign takeovers outpaced a broader 20 per cent rise in UK mergers and acquisitions — which reached a total value of $367bn this year — to reach the highest levels since the ...

Macro managers say sharp market moves, such as the drop in the dollar triggered by Donald Trump’s trade war, a sell-off in long-term bonds, and a relentless gold rally, have offered the most ...

The UK’s role in leading the JEF could see us as architects of a new northern maritime compact. Common patrol vessels and undersea infrastructure protection would demonstrate that Europe is capable of ...

Now it is no surprise that the US rejects MFN; it has ignored the principle in all the bilateral trade “deals” it has pushed on its allies this year. But it is something else to officially discard the ...

The traditional market “Santa rally” — a seasonal phenomenon in which stocks often rally through November and December — has been conspicuous by its absence this year, as fears about massive spending ...

Swedish authorities boarded a sanctioned Russian ship previously used for transporting weapons just off the country’s west coast in the latest incident between Nato countries and Moscow’s vessels in ...

In their response to the release of the Epstein files on Friday, Democrats passed over the many images of Clinton, focusing instead on how heavily redacted the records were. Several documents of 100 ...

Its collapse after a year opened the door for Netanyahu’s return with the most far-right government in Israel’s history. Analysts say Bennett — whose new party is currently running second to Netanyahu ...

The shift in tone is noticeable around Westminster. In October, Badenoch’s leadership of the Conservative party looked set to detonate as party insiders talked openly of insurrection, with populist ...