After a few minutes the guards tried to let a group of women join the front of the queue. The crowd surged forward and broke ...

The group sank just two ships in all of 2024, and none since last June. Now they have sunk two in less than a week. Yet the ...

Editor’s note: On July 17th Sir Keir Starmer and Friedrich Merz signed the treaty described in this story.

The researchers’ method was straightforward enough. The Congressional Budget Office ( CBO) estimated the impact of the bill ...

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These and a thousand other memorials and rituals are expressions of Germany’s Erinnerungskultur, a “memory culture” built up ...

The way handouts are managed also appears to have hurt education. Research by Susan Parker of the University of Maryland and ...

The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, which is currently in full, enthusiastic swing in Morocco, is breaking similar records.

F our years after Haiti’s last elected president, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated, Haitians are still waiting for justice. It ...