Even with this track record, the news last month that aides of Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, had been moonlighting for a firm burnishing Qatar’s image shocked many Israelis. The aides ...

E ven before Donald Trump’s tariff turmoil, it was hard to discern a clear China strategy. With decisions depending largely ...

Mr Trump’s breezy style has long disconcerted China’s leaders. In the spring of 2017 he called Mr Xi so often to ask for help with North Korea that Chinese envoys eventually delivered a discreet ...

D onald trump promised to end the war in Ukraine within a day. Now, insiders say, he hopes to secure a ceasefire within his ...

Telemedicine abortion is legal in Britain and is safe: a 2024 study published in Nature Medicine found that 99.8% of such abortions in America were not followed by a serious adverse event. Chart: The ...

Shipping cartons stack up next to Post-its with passwords and old Christmas cards—but open a cabinet and there are hundreds of doses of abortion pills. The post office assumes they are shipping ...

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Many of Argentina’s 22 previous IMF programmes have ended in disaster. Mr Milei’s record gives some credibility to his ...

In 1933 Roosevelt tried to sack William Humphrey, one of the five commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission, over ...

Britain, France and the Netherlands have all announced plans to cut their aid budgets by around a third, and others are ...

Gaming movies make good material for group crazes, as existing fandoms—“Minecraft” boasts more than 100m monthly ...