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A banner running down the side of the European Commission’s headquarters in Brussels depicts cartoon workers recladding its 13-floor façade with solar panels. The illustration might come across as a ...

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PETE HEGSETH, America’s secretary of war, flew halfway around the world to give a speech on his country’s policy in Asia that omitted any mention of the region’s biggest flashpoint: Taiwan. That marks ...

There are now a billion fewer people subsisting on less than $2.15 a day than in 2000. Each year since the turn of the millennium, a cast of aid workers, bureaucrats and philanthropists, who often ...

T o grasp how hard it is to tackle Ebola in Ituri, the province in eastern Congo that is at the centre of the worst outbreak ...

“IT’LL BE somewhere between a scalpel and a sledgehammer,” was how Mike Johnson, speaker of the House, described the emerging Republican approach to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Joe Biden’s ...

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In exchange, Cuba would get sanctions relief and economic aid. Three military options exist, reckons Richard Feinberg, a ...

When the supercar brand unveiled its first electric vehicle (EV), called the Luce (Italian for “light”), on May 25th, its ...

N early half of all Americans and around 40% of Britons now use a smartwatch, smart ring, phone app or another similar device to track their sleep. Are these gadgets accurate—and do their users get a ...

We produce wheat ourselves and have become self-sufficient.” If once Ethiopia was a byword for famine, now it was rapidly ...