Israel’s cabinet changed course on Gaza in dramatic fashion. It decided to “expand” military operations in the strip again ...

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Kenneth Rogoff is a professor at Harvard University and the author of “Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven ...

By using terms like “child mutilation” and campaigning hard on a painful issue for those parents and children directly ...

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Warren Buffett has retained that capacity. As Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting on May 3rd drew to a close, Mr ...

So “Sinners” is part gangsterish period drama, part vampire horror, with a grenade’s-worth of action movie thrown in. But it ...

In 2010 the Guardian predicted snooker would be an amateur sport by 2020. Five years beyond that cut-off, on a sunny Friday ...

As a country prone to typhoons and earthquakes, Taiwan has a comparatively good system of civil defence. But surviving ...

Imports surged as firms and consumers scrambled to bring goods into the country before the worst of Mr Trump’s tariffs took ...