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I N THE SPACE of less than a decade, medicine acquired a means of doing what millennia of diets and exhortation could not. A ...

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But little else has moved forward. A rotating cast of unelected councils and caretaker prime ministers has tried to fill the ...

Marine Le Pen finds out on Tuesday whether she can run for the French presidency next year. The court of appeal will announce ...

The South Korean firm is one of only three makers of the high-bandwidth memory chips needed to build ever more powerful ...

Avoid awkward subjects. Bite your tongue. The duller, the better. As if preparing for a difficult family get-together, NATO ...

Pilot production of 2-nanometre chips, the cutting-edge for chipmaking technology, is under way. The ambitious effort is seen ...

It grates on some governments when Mr Rutte praises President Donald Trump and—far from rebuking the American for calling ...

Donald Trump confirmed that he asked FIFA to “review” a red card given to Folarin Balogun of the United States’ men’s ...

I N JUNE 2023 the world’s biggest development bank seemed to be undergoing a transformation. At a summit in Paris, the ...

Huge crowds of mourners gathered in Tehran for the main funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme ...