Rebel forces battling Syria’s Iran- and Russian-backed regime captured the city of Aleppo, a shift in power in the civil war that has been going on for more than a decade.
Gulf banks’ prospects are tied to interest-rate cycles, with Saudi peers’ margins looking best-placed for rate-cut support into 1H25 after navigating the challenges of rising cost of liquidity though 3Q.
The French president faces calls from the farthest ends of the political spectrum to resign. They are likely to grow louder the longer he takes to resolve the political crisis.