Jemma Crew and Faarea MasudBusiness reporters EPA/Shutterstock US President Donald Trump has said countries doing business with Iran will face a 25% tariff on trade they do with America. It comes as Iran cracks down on anti-government protests, with thousands of people feared dead. Trump has used the threat of tariffs before to exert pressure

Norberto ParedesBBC Mundo, Caracas Watch: Son of prisoned opposition activist warns Trump to “not be fooled” The son of a jailed Venezuelan opposition leader has warned Donald Trump to “not be fooled” by the country’s government, amid accusations it has not kept its promise to release a significant number of political prisoners. Ramón Guanipa, the

The industry leader with the clearest path to become the next trillion-dollar company is one of Wall Street’s most prolific stock-split stocks. One of the only constants on Wall Street is change. Over multiple decades, the stock market’s most valuable publicly traded companies have often changed places, with technological innovations, competition, mergers and acquisitions, and

Jonathan MorrisSouth West BBC Several graves were disturbed after trees were uprooted at Paul cemetery near Mousehole Several graves have been disturbed after trees were uprooted at a cemetery as Storm Goretti lashed Cornwall. The graves, some of them recent, were damaged near Mousehole as the storm hit on Thursday – one resident described the

Danielle KayeBusiness reporter Getty Images Former Fed chair and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is one of several economic policy leaders to rally behind Jerome Powell Three former heads of the US central bank on Monday strongly criticised a criminal investigation into chair Jerome Powell, describing it as a bid to undermine the Federal Reserve’s

SABC Carolina Cecilia Chirindza and Rosita were lifted to safety by a South African helicopter helping recovery operations She was seen as a “miracle baby” after being born in a tree which her mother had climbed to escape flooding, but nearly 26 years on Mozambican Rosita Salvador Mabuiango has died after a long illness, her

Lyse DoucetChief international correspondent Reuters Iran’s rulers are confronting their most serious challenge since their own 1979 revolution. They’re now countering on an unprecedented scale – a ferocious security crackdown and near total internet shutdown has been unleashed on a scale unseen in previous crises. Some of the streets once engulfed by a roar of

Nawal Al-Maghafi,Senior international investigations correspondentand Sheida Kiran,BBC Eye Investigations ‘Do you recognise your passport? Now look what will happen to it’, says unseen woman in a video Flames lick around the edges of Omar’s passport. “It’s burning well,” an unseen woman says in Russian in the video. Omar, a 26-year-old Syrian construction worker, had been

Sammy AwamiBBC Africa, Kampala AFP via Getty Images Backers of Yoweri Museveni are hoping for a seventh successive election victory Whether decked in the bright yellow of the ruling party or donning the revolutionary red of the main opposition, young people are dominant among the foot soldiers of Uganda’s election campaign. In crowded public grounds

G Venket Ram Vijay’s new film will open to nearly 5,000 cinemas across India and overseas in January India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu has a long, peculiar political tradition: here, cinema doesn’t merely entertain, it also governs. From extremely successful political stints of MG Ramachandran – popularly known as MGR – and Jayalalithaa to

Video shows moment US immigration agent fatally shoots woman US investigators will face a host of thorny questions in determining whether the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal agent in Minneapolis last week was justified, as local and national officials recount drastically different accounts of an incident that sparked nationwide protests. Several videos

Macquarie University Randa Abdel-Fattah says a decision to exclude her from the Adelaide Festival was racist One of Australia’s biggest cultural festivals has been left in disarray after a decision to disinvite a prominent Australian-Palestinian writer, triggering a massive backlash and mass exodus from fellow authors. The board of the Adelaide Festival last week said

Roja Assadiand Sarah Namjoo,BBC Persian Public domain A protester holds up a picture of crown prince Reza Pahlavi in Kaj Square, north-western Tehran on Friday “I saw it with my own eyes – they fired directly into lines of protesters, and people fell where they stood.” Omid’s voice was shaking as he spoke, fearful of

Lee el artículo sobre los presos políticos en Venezuela en español. Venezuela’s promise last week to release “a significant number” of political prisoners is progressing far slower than many had hoped, as hundreds of families continue to wait in agony for their loved ones to be freed. Of the more than 800 people considered arbitrarily