Through an opaque network of shell companies in the British Virgin Islands and Luxembourg holding firms, an agency that manages China’s foreign reserves has discreetly scooped up stakes in Europe’s critical infrastructure, utilities, and real estate. From a gas company in Spain to a police headquarters in Belgium, an agency …

The United States has resumed attacks on Iran. The memorandum of understanding that Tehran and Washington struck last month in Switzerland, hanging by a thread for weeks, has finally fallen apart. “I think it’s over,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on July 8. “I don’t want to deal with [Iran] …

Press Secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov said that Russia has never interfered in the domestic policy of other countries, in particular, in the presidential elections in the United States in 2016. “Interfax” writes: “Russia has never interfered in other people’s internal affairs, and we expect that no one will …