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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 ...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking off in India. The country is now the second-largest market for OpenAI, whose ChatGPT service has 700m active users worldwide. Anthropic, another AI startup, also ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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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Four electric motors deliver over 1,000 horsepower, blistering acceleration and a top speed of 193mph for around €550,000 ...

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

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