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An obvious plot offers itself to the deft diplomat: could Europe, the continental home of the Nobel prizes, dangle the prospect of a shiny medal and an Oslo banquet as a sort of carrot to lure Mr ...
This does not mean that Britain is “lawless”, as the government’s critics complain. But both are signs of something worrying: a criminal enterprise that spans the world, but is flourishing most in ...
Washington does have a say in the choice of president. The 23rd Amendment, ratified in 1961, gives it the same number of electoral votes—three—as the least-populous state. If Washington cast those ...
W hile American tech giants are spending megabucks to learn the secrets of their rivals’ proprietary artificial-intelligence (AI) models, in China a different battle is under wa ...
But physiological changes in pregnancy—such as a faster metabolism, greater heat production, and heavier demands on the heart—make expectant women particularly vulnerable to higher temperatures, with ...
That marks the end of nearly 20 years of MAS rule, and assures a rightward tilt for the country’s politics in October. ■ Sign ...
Turning up for class would help. Fully 23% of white British children were persistently absent last year, compared with 4% for ethnic Chinese. The Education Policy Institute, a think-tank, finds that ...
S TAND ON the rim of the grassy levees and you can see New Orleans’s dilemma: rising water on one side, a sinking city on the other. The people who call this place home have learned to live with water ...
These cultural imports seem to have spurred demand for travel to Japan; in 2024 150,000 people flew there from Mexico, the highest tally on record. While small compared with the number of people ...
In the sense that Mr Trump can cause Ukraine harm that it cannot protect itself against, America’s president is even more dangerous to Mr Zelensky than Mr Putin. Many feared that at Monday’s meeting ...
Enjoy the peculiar melange of whiteboards and humans while you can ...
The Chinese Communist Party, however, does not approve of the look. People’s Daily, a party mouthpiece, recently lamented the rise of “sun-protection anxiety”, pointing to confusion over what is ...