But a heavy police presence, including riot police equipped with tear gas and non-lethal flashball guns, was a sign the ...

A SKED about predictions that Iran’s economy faced imminent collapse, Abdolnasser Hemmati, its central-bank governor, reached ...

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Anne Carson, a Canadian poet who shared top odds with Can Xue, a Chinese novelist, won the Nobel prize in literature. The ...

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Field Marshal Asim Munir, the Trump-flattering head of Pakistan’s armed forces, reportedly wants to do away with his ...

An adaptation of it was among the first Western films shown in China after the death of Mao in 1976. President Xi Jinping ...

U ppermost in the minds of American commanders who ordered around a dozen B-1 bombers to leave their temporary base at RAF ...

Pensioner preoccupations like leaving the European Union were pursued no matter the damage. Bungs such as free TV licences ...

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T HE END of an era in Brazil may also mark the moment a dynasty truly established its hold. On October 4th Brazil’s ruling ...

Ethiopia claims that Eritrea, its neighbour to the north, backs the rebels, and that Eritrean soldiers took part in the ...