It is a vast zone of devastation (see map), with destruction and killing on a scale far exceeding that of the war on Iran, or ...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) could once pose as oases of stability. Now the two Gulf powers are under ...

O ne of the great fantasies of British politics is that the country can sustain a welfare state similar to today’s without ...

On October 18th Anthropic, an AI lab, said it plans to put 5% of its shares into a public-benefit fund that might end up ...

Many Western leaders would kill for that number, but in Indonesia’s deferential culture it marks the steepest fall in support ...

W hether a film is good enough to warrant a trek to the cinema is not always easy to ascertain. Recently viewers have praised ...

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I n several European countries, leftists inspired by weeks of protests in France have launched mass demonstrations of their ...

In the other is Joseph Kabila (pictured), an ex-president, who on October 12th stunned the country by announcing that he ...

The Starlink cut-offs were a test, and worse may follow ...

Travelling around Israel, it is clear that the country is deeply divided. No party is set to win over 20% of the vote.

And new fundraising data should dent conservative hopes that the party’s candidates could close these deficits by swamping ...