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by Anjli Raval and David Sheppard in London Oil prices crashed by as much as 30 per cent after Saudi Arabia fired the first shots in a price war, in crude’s biggest one-day fall since the early 1990s Gulf war. Riyadh’s threat to discount its crude...

David Stanway, Kate Kelland SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) - A growing number of discharged coronavirus patients in China and elsewhere are testing positive after recovering, sometimes weeks after being allowed to leave the hospital, which could make the epidemic harder to eradicate. On Wednesday, the Osaka prefectural...

Nigerians home and Abroad reacted widely with the recent news of United States President Donald John Trump reviewing a Homeland Security Department recommendation that at least some of the visa restrictions be expanded to include Tanzania, Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria and Sudan, Bloomberg...

Donald Trump’s nationalism makes him amazingly easy to provoke into conflict Janan Ganesh Donald Trump is a deceptively conventional US president of the 21st century. Elected to unpick his nation’s entanglements in the Middle East, he has served to deepen and extend...

The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land Patri Friedman started Pronomos Capital, with more money from Peter Thiel, to establish mini-city-states. By Lizette Chapman Patri Friedman is sick of the jokes about floating tax havens. About a decade ago, the former Google software engineer (and...

KEY POINTS Travis Kalanick could stage a remarkable comeback like Steve Jobs, have a strong second act like Marc Andreessen, or become an eccentric billionaire like Paul Allen. But like most entrepreneurs — and most people — he probably had one big break, and...

Beyond the Belt and Road infrastructure projects, thousands of entrepreneurs from China are also setting up on the continent Wilson Wu has big plans for the free trade zone he manages in Igbesa, a scruffy town in Ogun State, some 60km from the frenzy of...

Africa-focused financial technology startups are, by far, the tech rave of the moment. In each of the last three years, startups in the sector have received more investment than other sectors – and there’s a basis for this. Across the continent, fintech isn’t so much...

When John Legere Leaves, Say Goodbye to the Old T-Mobile Buying Sprint — the departing CEO's last act — flies in the face of his legacy of fostering low prices and innovation. By Tara Lachapelle I’m not sure which is the bigger question: What is T-Mobile...

Media and social focus on gender diversity, the male-female wage gap and women's role in the workplace has rightly been a key topic in 2019. Corporates and investors are paying attention.