Israel bombed an area near the presidential palace in Damascus early on Friday, in its clearest warning yet to Syria’s new Islamist-led authorities of its readiness to ramp up military action in the name of the country’s Druze minority.Syria’s government called the bombing a “dangerous escalation” amid increasing hostility between …

In early 2018, near the tail end of a major cryptocurrency boom, a Lithuanian start-up called Bankera announced that it had managed to raise over 100 million euros in just six months by selling its own digital coin. The company said the funds would be used to fashion a “bank …

Nord Stream 2—the only U.S.-Russian business project that looks like a viable prospect once the fighting in Ukraine ends—raises more questions than answers. Renewed diplomatic contact between Moscow and Washington under U.S. President Donald Trump has quickly become economic as well as political. Statements from both sides about wanting to …