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The Taliban were supposed to remain in the diplomatic doghouse until they abandoned their abhorrent treatment of women and ...

The Super Lig has long been popular among European players near the end of their careers. Turkey’s football-mad president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has lured them with a tax exemption: they pay a flat 20 ...

But the cia officer in question, along with two others involved in that 2016 report, Shelby Pierson and Vinh Nguyen, are some of the most senior serving career intelligence officials to be purged ...

An obvious plot offers itself to the deft diplomat: could Europe, the continental home of the Nobel prizes, dangle the ...

This does not mean that Britain is “lawless”, as the government’s critics complain. But both are signs of something worrying: ...

An unholy combination of disease, climate change and poor farming practices in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, where about 70% of ...

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 ...

Commercial skiing in South America goes back decades. The first resort to open was Portillo, in Chile, in 1949, and the ...

But physiological changes in pregnancy—such as a faster metabolism, greater heat production, and heavier demands on the heart ...

Turning up for class would help. Fully 23% of white British children were persistently absent last year, compared with 4% for ...

Other cases suggest collusion at a lower level. Mwabili Mwagodi, a Kenyan critic of Mr Ruto, whose rule is increasingly ...