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US president Joe Biden’s branding of Bermuda as a tax haven was “unfortunate as much as it was untrue”, the finance minister has said. Mr Biden has mentioned the island’s status as a low tax jurisdiction several times since he took office earlier thi...

Business and political leaders in Bermuda have reacted to US President Joe Biden labelling the island a tax haven, and appearing to have the island in the “crosshairs” of US tax reform. They have highlighted the support the island's international bus...

Dutch authorities have released an aircraft operated by a Bermudian aviation group that was involved in an incident that left two people injured. Longtail Aviation will fly a replacement engine to Belgium after its Boeing 747 lost parts of its engin...

The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian nuclear scientist considered the father of the Islamic Republic's nuclear weapons programme, has been widely attributed to Israel, which has not claimed responsibility. Different theories have been...

Donald Trump signed an executive order in June providing for sanctions against persons who “have directly engaged in any effort by the [International Criminal Court] to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute any United States personnel without the ...

The dramatic and welcome decision by the United Arab Emirates to normalise relations with Israel is indisputably a win for both countries and for the Trump Administration, which helped to broker the deal. There is an even bigger victory to be had, th...

The Monday arrest of Chinese law professor Xu Zhangrun vividly demonstrated the intolerant and autocratic rule of President Xi Jinping that Xu so persuasively denounced in essays in recent years. One of China’s most inspired voices for freedom has b...

Freedom and democracy will always be precious because life is precious, and a human basic instinct is having the right to freedom. This upholds decency and respect for different views with neither condemnation nor persecution. Most people want to liv...

Many things divide the 27 member states of the European Union these days, but one controversy in particular sums up the bloc’s fundamental dilemma. It is over “enlargement”, and specifically whether to formally start accession talks with North Macedo...

When the history of our time is written, the year 2019 may stand as the turning point in the battle for liberal democracy — a year when millions of people rose to fight against the forces that for more than a decade have been bulldozing it, trampling...

The Minister of National Security urged a British politician to help bring back the BMU code to Bermudian passports during talks in London, he said yesterday. Wayne Caines attended a series of meetings in the UK capital last week. He met Seema Kenned...

Much of the world is witnessing struggles in which powerful leaders are more concerned about absolute control than permitting true democracy to prevail. This really gives power to the people on crucial decisions that affect their daily lives. When d...