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L ESS THAN two years ago Sir Keir Starmer was elected promising to save Britain from populism. As with Emmanuel Macron in France and Friedrich Merz in Germany, his mission was to ...

T HE LARGEST supply shock in petroleum history is getting larger fast. Some 2bn barrels, or 5% of the world’s yearly oil ...

In the scorching month of May, many venture to famous hill towns—none better known than Shimla, a resort in the foothills of ...

Mr Modi’s plea comes amid a worsening energy shock caused by the war in Iran. For weeks the Indian government has kept fuel ...

A T NO TIME in polling history have Americans been less optimistic about their long-term employment prospects. The average ...

T he launch of ChatGPT in 2022 ignited the artificial-intelligence boom—and elicited a chorus of warnings from AI bosses of ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. The Trump administration said it ...

Stability and fruitful returns were also on the minds of Xi Jinping and Donald Trump when they toured the temple on the first ...

In short order America’s biggest companies have gone from printing money to burning it. Amazon, Meta and Microsoft are all ...

Many suspect AI is to blame. More than half of employers say they have considered replacing entry-level workers with the ...

A sk a Republican in Washington behind closed doors what Donald Trump’s midterm strategy is and they will probably give you a ...