Why some Germans want to repatriate their gold from the US

Where one's gold sits is not just a matter of security, prestige, or practicality; it is a matter of trust and confidence, both of which seem to be in short supply as a result of Donald Trump's polici

Toufic Chanbour

Marriage or Broke

[caption id="attachment_55248547" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian newlyweds Aisha and Mohammed join celebrations at Cairo's Tahrir Square after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down on…

Hend El-Behary

Speed Up and Sell

[caption id="attachment_55248001" align="alignnone" width="620"]Workers at the Iran Khodro car manufacturing plant make Iranian car models, as well as vehicles under license of the French company…

Farahmand Alipoor

Iran Missed the Real Revolution

[caption id="attachment_55245923" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranians shop at the main old bazaar in Tehran on June 1, 2013. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]Iran’s 1979 revolution still…

Afshin Molavi

Syria beyond the Battlefield

[caption id="attachment_55245553" align="alignnone" width="620"] A banker carries a load of money as he walks past an image of the Syrian president, Bashar Al-Assad, at a bank in the capital,…

Samer Abboud

Politics, not Profit

[caption id="attachment_55245665" align="alignnone" width="620"] A female worker prepares parts of Kalashnikov machine guns at the Kalashnikov manufacturing plant on September 18, 2013 in Izhevsk,…

Andrés Cala

Like a Bull in the Iraqi Oil Market

[caption id="attachment_55244690" align="alignnone" width="620"] Gazprom security men stand guard in front of a drilling platform at an oilfield near the Iraqi city of Badra, south of Baghdad, on…

Andrés Cala

Putting Down the Wrong Kind of Roots

[caption id="attachment_55244622" align="alignnone" width="594"] Apartment blocks line the edge of a field in the fertile Egyptian Delta region of Al-Menofeya. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)[…

Rawan Ezzat

Shifting Sands under Qatari Gas

[caption id="attachment_55244083" align="alignnone" width="620"] View of Qatar Petroleum (QP), a state-owned corporation established in 1974 and responsible for all phases of the oil and gas industry…

Keily Miller