The West’s Afghanistan strategy has failed. In 2021, America withdrew from the country, ending two decades of fighting and ...

More than a day after a four-minute-long, 7.4-magnitude earthquake shook western and southern Colombia, the scale of the tragedy is becoming clear. The quake has killed at least 250 people, injured ...

A lmost every summer since 1549, a group of men from the Isle of Lewis sailed to an uninhabited islet in the North Atlantic ...

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The new head of Iran’s Supreme National ‌Security Council said the Strait of Hormuz would not reopen until America “changes ...

Soon after becoming China’s prime minister in 1998 Zhu Rongji famously declared that he had ordered 100 coffins — 99 for corrupt officials and one for himself. In his hatred of bureaucratic graft, the ...

Yet the prospects for democracy in Venezuela seem to be improving. This is not because Mr Trump has suddenly developed a passion for the subject. It is because his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who ...

T hat science’s best days are behind it, and its rate of progress is slowing, is an old claim. And, since science itself is a perfectly good subject for scientists to investigate, many have looked ...

The earthquake was as powerful as the deadly pair that devastated Venezuela in June. But it occurred about ten times deeper ...

Donald Trump insisted that America has “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran claims that Hormuz is shut and says that it will not reopen until America accepts its conditions for ending the war ...

Google will unveil the latest generation of its Pixel smartphones on Wednesday. Expect the tech giant to boast about their ...

But Ms Hong’s near-win in spite of her considerable political baggage points to a Democratic coalition that remains angry, restless and increasingly receptive to populist-left candidates. There were ...