The Arctic island’s 34-year-old prime minister is at the centre of one of the world’s most meaningful geopolitical struggles

Cautious spending in ‘golden quarter’ exposes divide between the UK’s stronger retailers and those that have failed to adapt

Long seen as defunct, the Monroe Doctrine is being invoked once again as a blueprint for assertive US foreign policy. Historian Greg Grandin charts the rise, fall and rebirth of an ambiguous creed

Pearl-clutching about the Venezuela operation ignores the history of US military strategy

Coral beaches, Andean peaks and the world’s tallest waterfall give the country huge potential as a tourist destination

Consultancy costs have ballooned in recent years due to Brexit and the pandemic

Nicolás Maduro’s removal has opened the door to a huge and complex debt workout

As protests against the Islamic regime intensify, the son of the overthrown Shah seeks to rally support from abroad

Chief executive Darren Woods pushes back against president’s call to rush back into troubled country

Action against Venezuela and sabre-rattling towards Greenland point to risks in US president’s approach to the Fed

Bolívar has fallen nearly 20% on black market, after US capture of President Maduro

Maduro’s capture leaves Putin’s costly plans to build an anti-US bulwark in Latin America in tatters

Billionaire’s xAI start-up lacks adequate safeguards, say experts, but many AI models are trained on troubling material

The proposed levy on people worth 10 figures and above has rattled Silicon Valley and split Democratic leaders

US president seeks to win commitments from oil executives to invest up to $100bn

Number of private wealth-management companies for rich individuals has grown in the US over the past decade

Cocoa set for large-scale buying during index rebalance period

US president shared a graphic that included unpublished statistics 12 hours before the critical data release

Data forecasting made easy

America is accelerating the shift towards a Hobbesian order

Public sector reform should be easiest for Labour to do, precisely because it is Labour

Star fund manager says he is ‘acutely disappointed’ and feels ‘the opposite of pride’ about returns for investors

Big Four join mid-tier companies and industry bodies to lobby against FRC’s policy

Latest sign labour market is cooling after years of strong growth