When Blaise Metreweli takes over as the 18th chief of MI6 on October 1st, succeeding Sir Richard Moore, she is unlikely to ...

F inland is the undisputed sauna capital of the world, with approximately one sauna for every 1.6 people. But voluntary ...

For now the famine is centred in the governorate of Gaza, one of five in the strip. It is the most densely populated and home ...

The literary world was, for a long time, not very diverse: in America in 1985, just 18 of 2,500 books were by black authors ...

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But the cia officer in question, along with two others involved in that 2016 report, Shelby Pierson and Vinh Nguyen, are some ...

In the wake of the unrest, which turned violent, China’s ruling Communist Party engineered sweeping changes in Hong Kong’s ...

China regulates accountancy, law, retail and even estate agents more tightly than the average member of the OECD, a club of ...

Chipmaking is not an end in itself but a critical input America’s tech sector requires to be world-beating. Forcing firms to ...

But physiological changes in pregnancy—such as a faster metabolism, greater heat production, and heavier demands on the heart ...

Despite unease over his Islamist past, most Syrians rallied behind Ahmed al-Sharaa, their new leader. Over the summer, ...