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THE Themes used by the speaker were the usual Hindu-nationalist fare. The opposition Congress Party was planning to take away ...

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The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Joe Biden and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the Republicans plus daily updates about the 2024 US election.

O N MAY 6TH Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ), travelled to Tehran and met Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iran’s foreign minister. Less than two weeks ...

Over 2,500 devastating pages Sir Brian explains how “a catalogue of failures” led to such “a calamity”. Those in authority—doctors, blood services and the government—did not put patient safety first, ...

T HOUSANDS GATHERED in front of Taipei’s presidential office on May 20th to celebrate the inauguration of William Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s fifth democratically elected president ...

With vibrant costumes and focus on the marriage market, “Bridgerton” positions itself as a modern period drama. Viewers have spent almost 1bn hours watching the first season, and nearly 800m with the ...

I T HAD BEEN been expected in Israel for weeks, but the moment was still a shock when it arrived. On May 20th the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court ( ICC ), Karim Khan, announced that he ...

ANNA SITS in silence for most of the car journey from Kyiv to Kharkiv, her face contorted with worry. “The Russians come closer, closer, closer, but he’s just not listening to me,” she says. Anna made ...

In 2012, after his final attempt to avoid extradition to Sweden failed, he sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Dismissing the allegations as a plot to secure his subsequent extradition ...

The statistical record is clear. During the “war” against criminal activity, homicides skyrocketed from 8,867 in 2007 to 36,685 in 2018. A former Secretary of Public Security in charge of the “war” ...