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Omer looks different now, after spending 505 days in captivity in Gaza. His brown hair is cropped shorter than the floppy ...

Thailand’s ruling establishment—its army, the palace and assorted other magnates—has long felt entitled to sack politicians ...

T heir names are unknown but their pain is nonetheless evident. A user on Reddit, a social-media site, was “fairly close to ...

Both research teams recovered the ancient proteins from tooth enamel, the hardest substance in vertebrates’ bodies, in ...

S EQUELS rarely live up to the original. So said Japanese who warned that the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Japan’s second city, ...

Mr Putin’s war against Ukraine inadvertently led to an end to the hitherto intractable conflict between Azerbaijan and ...

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Across the rich world, politicians of the left and the right decry the dysfunction of the global asylum system. Friedrich ...

Climate change is a continuing worry: the OBR is more optimistic than it was about the fiscal cost of net zero, but gloomier ...

Whether in France, Germany, Italy or Sweden, parties of the hard right have surged as they—and often only they, ...