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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...

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...

BLURB: No one knows the true toll of the massacre, and the city remains closed to the outside world, although some aid has started to reach other parts of Darfur The capture of the city of el Fasher...

In the hours after the massacre at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney last week, it seemed that Australia’s leaders had come together to offer a bipartisan response, as they had done...

About 13 years ago, Kyle Edmondson woke up after a night of drinking with friends and felt an intense pain on the top of his foot. Climbing out of bed, he could barely walk. His doctor told Edmondson,...

In the spring of 2021, the cancer field was abuzz over research that suggested a simple early-detection blood test could find dozens of different cancers, including many for which there is no routine...

Venezuela sits on more oil than Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United States and every other country. Yet, it produces and sells only about 1% of the crude the world is using. President Donald Trump’s...

NEW DELHI — India’s government sent a notice to private companies last week giving them 90 days to ensure that a government app was “preinstalled on all mobile handsets manufactured or imported...

France announced the creation of a paid, voluntary military service for young adults, becoming the latest European country to beef up its armed forces in the face of perceived threats from Russia...

In the low-grade lens of the TV cameras, between 1969 and 1972, the men who walked the moon were transmogrified into low-gravity Cold Warriors. National heroes, in one view. Interplanetary...

The Trump administration is rapidly escalating its pressure campaign against Venezuela, with America’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, about to take up a position within striking...