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 ...

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It seems increasingly likely that Iran’s president is dead, along with the foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, who was ...

California began planning it three decades ago. In 2008, when the state’s voters approved nearly $10bn in bonds for the train, it was thought that the total cost would run to $33bn and that it would ...

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” ...

FOR MONTHS generals and ministers in Israel have been warning from behind the scenes that the government of Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, lacks a coherent strategy for the war in Gaza and ...

Some 56,000 lawsuits remain active, most of them in Monsanto’s home state of Missouri. Roundup’s biggest customers are ...

F OR YEARS security experts have warned that a technology at the heart of global communications is dangerously insecure. Now ...

The opportunity, he says, is that the startups could end up with a chip that is better at running future models than Nvidia’s less specialised GPUs are. The risk is that they specialise in the wrong ...

If it feels surprising that God is reviewed on Amazon, it should not. God may have made heaven and earth but he also makes an ...

America is so big and political power so diffuse, with so much authority devolved to the states, that one-man rule still ...

So it is deeply regrettable that President Joe Biden has decided to impose tariffs of 100% on electric vehicles (EVs) made in ...