President Donald Trump’s pick for national security advisor signals a willingness by the administration to take a more aggressive stand against U.S. adversaries like Iran or Venezuela —and that could mean higher oil prices in the very near future. Analysts said the appointment of John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador, makes it even more likely that…

« Look, I’ll get controversial. »

A British man was arrested in a Peru shopping centre after police found a suitcase containing 32 KILOS worth of cocaine. Sean Woods, from Liverpool, was named by Peru’s Ministerio Publico as the 24-year-old arrested following a major drugs bust in Lima. Pictures released by the South American authorities on Facebook appeared to show Mr…

The French police officer who was shot after he swapped himself for a hostage during an Isis-inspired terror attack on a supermarket has died. Arnaud Beltrame, 44, took the place for a woman being held captive by suspect Redouane Lakdim at the Super U store in Trebes in the south of France. « He fell as a…

Image copyright EPA Image caption Lt-Col Beltrame suffered fatal injuries after volunteering to trade places with a female hostage A French police officer who swapped himself for a hostage in a supermarket siege on Friday has died, officials say. Lt-Col Arnaud Beltrame, 44, « fell as a hero » and showed « exceptional courage », French President Emmanuel Macron…

Once upon a time I got interested in theories of economic development because I had studied a low-income country, poorer than Congo, with life expectancy half as long and infant mortality three times as high as the average developing country. That country is my own country, Sweden—less than 150 years ago. At that time Sweden…