India is a young country: around two-fifths of its 1.4bn people are under the age of 25. That makes them an important constituency in the general election, which will end on June 4th. Yet getting ...
In 2022 Japan spent more than $60bn of its foreign-exchange reserves defending the yen, its first intervention to strengthen ...
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Gregg Abbott, Texas’s Republican governor, instructed the state’s education agency to “ignore” the Biden administration’s ...
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Maine has a state treat, the whoopie pie. South Carolina has a style of dance, the shag. State reptiles abound, from the horned toad (Wyoming) to the collared lizard (Oklahoma). New Mexico even has an ...
A change was needed because the old method of making steel is incredibly dirty. The Port Talbot plant is the single biggest emitter in Britain. Its two smokestacks account for one-fifth of Wales’s ...
The race between Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon to categorise all life had long-lasting consequences ...
H UMZA YOUSAF announced his resignation as Scotland’s first minister on April 29th after a mere 13 months (or 8.1 Liz Trusses) in office. Four days earlier he had unilaterally terminated a coalition ...
Firms in China have provided Russia with semiconductors that are crucial for making various weapon systems. They have also ...
But extremists are on the march again. They have re-emerged in havens old and new, and are thriving in cyberspace. Furthermore, Israel’s war in Gaza is all but certain to radicalise a new generation.
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