A tally released by SIPRI, a think-tank based in Stockholm, suggests that governments are worried: 102 of the 173 countries included in the study increased their defence budgets last year. Globally, ...

But the ravages of war are not the only reason for the government’s reduced tax take. Businesses are also making use of the chaos to dodge paying their fair share. This is particularly true in ...

W HEN HAMAS announced, on the evening of May 6th, that it had agreed to a ceasefire with Israel, the mood in Rafah turned jubilant. Thousands of people cheered and danced in the s ...

Now it is the turn of Charles’s son. By contrast to his father, Prince William has said little of note about architecture or planning, or indeed anything at all. But as first in line to the throne he ...

By contrast to his father, Prince William has said little of note about architecture or planning, or indeed anything at all. But as first in line to the throne he is the Duke of Cornwall, which means ...

Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft are on the hunt for new energy sources ...

In July the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, a group of refugees and Ukrainian members of other orchestras, will embark on a “Beethoven Ninth Freedom Tour”, visiting democratic capitals, including Paris ...

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In a house on a cul-de-sac in Arlington Heights, a nondescript suburb of modest 1950s homes north-west of Chicago, Deborah Fossett is counting hundred-dollar bills. Holding each one up to the light, ...

The list of those it has charged in its two-decade history is a 54-name-long litany of infamy. It includes Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan tyrant for whom an arrest warrant was issued on charges of crimes ...

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan held him in contempt for a tenth time for violating a gag ...

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