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The Strait of Hormuz is usually an idyllic place for a vacation. Expatriates stationed in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, travel by road to Musandam in Oman, which juts into the strait at its narrowest...

To help control spiking oil prices during the war in the Middle East, the United States is turning to an unlikely source for help: a network of tankers with ties to the Iranian military.On Thursday,...

Donald Trump must envy George W. Bush for the cultural compliance he got while dragging America to war in Iraq.If you didn’t live through it, it’s hard to convey the atmosphere of stifling...

ROME — Despite refusing to join the attacks on Iran, Europe’s leaders have responded to the widening war in the Middle East by sending warships, fighter jets and air-defense systems to protect...

The most famous query in the history of modern warfare came from David Petraeus, then a major general, in an interview with Rick Atkinson, then a reporter, during the initial assault on Iraq: “Tell...

WASHINGTON — An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials...

Let’s think about the Iran war in the light of Donald Trump’s career to date. What has made him so historically significant, so effective as a politician in spite of all his sins and faults, so...

New York: Policymakers, business leaders, economists and legal experts are parsing the implications of the Supreme Court’s landmark 6-3 ruling that overturned most of President Donald Trump’s...

Nasa successfully completed a countdown rehearsal for the Artemis II moon mission, experiencing only a few small glitches along the way. That was a marked improvement from the agency’s first try a...

After a year filled with trade-related drama between the United States and the European Union, one outstanding gripe still has potential to fuel the fire: how the bloc regulates technology. At the...

When Tarique Rahman, who is set to become the prime minister of Bangladesh, went into exile in 2008 after being charged with bribery and corruption, many Bangladeshis wrote him off. He was the scion...

When Vice-President JD Vance told the Munich Security Conference last year that America’s European allies were destroying themselves with immigration and unfairly barring the far-right from power,...

Harvard undergraduates would compete for a limited number of A grades in their courses under a faculty committee proposal released Friday meant to tame grade inflation at the Ivy League school. During...

The US aid cuts in Afghanistan were as sudden as they were brutal. Even after the US withdrawal and the end of the war in 2021, the United States continued pouring money into Afghanistan. From the...

Digital music players and cameras have largely been kicked to the curb by smartphones, yet many people still have them tucked away somewhere.If you’ve been keeping that ancient iPod around because...

Since the publication of the first “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book in 1993, more than 275 titles of the series have come out. Worldwide, more than 500 million copies have sold in over 100...

The call came from an editor in London last Monday morning. Could I get to the scene of a deadly train crash in southern Spain? I checked flights from Barcelona, where I live, grabbed my cameras and...

Declaring childbirth a patriotic act. Nagging newlyweds about family planning. Taxing condoms.To get its citizens to have babies, the Chinese Communist Party has pulled every lever.The efforts have...

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine and the United States are 90 per cent of the way toward an agreement to end the war with Russia. Within the 10 per cent still in dispute is who will...

Three days after Qiu Sijun, a retired bricklayer in eastern China, went for a routine diabetes checkup, he received a call from a doctor he hadn’t met before. The doctor, the head of the...