"Digital authoritarianism" refers to governments using technology for surveillance and censorship to repress dissent. China remains the master practitioner. There, sweeping surveillance and censorship ...

“Digital authoritarianism” refers to governments using technology for surveillance and censorship to repress dissent. But this problem is no longer confined to Moscow or Beijing. Democracies, too, are ...

It has become impossible to cross the main avenues of Dakar, Lagos or Abidjan without being filmed. Behind the lenses of the cameras being installed across many West African cities lies, in most cases ...

The agreement is important for both nations, as Canada seeks new markets away from the United States and Germany tries to diversify its energy supply. By Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Ian Austen Matina ...

China built a gigantic retail complex meant to draw 100,000 shoppers a day, with theme park rides, canals, global landmarks, and room for thousands of stores. Instead, it opened into silence, with ...

The United States exported oil at record levels in April, rushing to fill a global supply gap amid the Iran war, even as gas and oil prices remained stubbornly elevated. April exports averaged 5.3 ...

HONG KONG (AP) — About 90 ships including oil tankers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the outset of the war with Iran and it is still exporting millions of barrels of oil at a time when the ...

If the United States assumed, before attacking Iran, that the major oil producer would be reluctant to close the Strait of Hormuz for fear of blocking its own oil exports, it miscalculated. Traffic ...

Iran is exporting more oil through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war, showing it is in control of a strategic waterway that it has closed off to the rest of the region’s oil producers. As Gulf ...