After its invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Russia bought and improved them (as the Geran-2). It has since churned out tens of ...

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Our results show that around halfway through the first week of the conflict the fighting entered a new phase. One change is that Iran’s counter-punches have become less effective: both fewer in number ...

Elites should stop assuming that the barriers to progress are the same from Brazil to Bangladesh, writes Alice Evans ...

T he border between Israel and Lebanon bears the scars of its most recent war. On the Lebanese side, the village of Mais al-Jabal—used by Hizbullah, an Iran-backed militia, to l ...

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P RINTED ON TREADMILLS and exercise bikes in gyms around the world is a simple method for estimating the maximum rate at which your heart should safely beat, in beats per minute: ...

These six books chronicle a deeply unequal, often cynical old order slowly giving way to something new. The Age of Innocence. By Edith Wharton. Barnes & Noble; 336 pages; $8.95. Penguin Books Ltd; 336 ...

Mr Nobody Against Putin”, a documentary that won a BAFTA and is up for an Oscar on March 15th, is ostensibly a study in propaganda and patriotism. Its real power, however, comes from its approach to a ...

Fowler doesn’t waste time stopping for meals on his cactus expeditions. As dawn broke, a Grateful Dead album played quietly in the background and the men gossiped about fellow succulent lovers who’d ...

It is naive to think that escalating conflict in Iran will lead to anything good, writes Spain’s prime minister ...

KRISTI NOEM’S position has looked precarious for weeks. Republican and Democratic senators called for her resignation as secretary of homeland security after federal immigration agents killed two ...