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Ask a European banker how to reinvigorate their continent’s capital markets, and there is a good chance they will start enthusing about Sweden. That might seem surprising, since during the post-Brexit ...

The last time people cared what Canada thought of China was half a century ago. Fighting in Vietnam, America did not want Canada to recognise “Red China”, in preference to Taiwan. But Canada saw ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- Voters in Guinea will head to the polls on Sunday for the West African nation's first presidential election since the military took power in a 2021 coup, with analysts predicting a ...

There’s a record 1.4 billion barrels of crude currently on the world’s oceans, pushing down benchmark prices and sending ...

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