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” ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Cybercrime would cost the world more than $23trn by 2027, up from $8.4trn in 2022. More recently the IMF noted that cyber-attacks have doubled since the covid-19 pandemic. “The risk of extreme losses ...

Lionel Shriver imagines cancel culture going to even greater extremes ...

That will change on May 18th when Tyson Fury fights Oleksandr Usyk in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital. Mr Fury, a 2.06m (six-foot eight-inch) Briton, holds the WBC title and is the favourite, in part ...

Mr Klopp’s other signature move—a bear hug—befitted commiseration as much as celebration. He hugged his players whether they won or not. He hugged them whether they performed well or badly (or didn’t ...