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This is the introduction to Middle East Dispatch, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents take a ...

The Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer told its conference in Liverpool on September 30th, was locked in a “fight for the soul of ...

A MERICA’S GENERALS and admirals scrambled home from the four corners of the world, summoned at short notice to hear an ...

Such expenditure, accentuated by staggering data-centre deals unveiled by firms such as OpenAI, Nvidia and Oracle, is aimed ...

T HE PLAN presented on September 29th by Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza, was received rapturously by the Israeli public.

And though recent shutdowns have tended to last longer—such as the record 35-day shutdown in 2018-2019 during Donald Trump’s ...

Few people understand Russia’s shadow fleet as well as Ivo Värk, the commander of the Estonian navy. It often tracks dozens ...

First, they obtained egg cells from volunteers and removed their nuclei. They then harvested skin cells from other volunteers ...

The British government’s critical-minerals strategy recognises that the economy relies on minerals typically mined in far-off ...

D URING THE cold war, risk management was a life-or-death exercise for political and military leaders. To assist them, ...

Many of Madagascar’s difficulties stem from the disastrous socialist experiments under Didier Ratsiraka, president from 1975 ...