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G OVERNMENTS IN South-East Asia once feared the rise of Islamist terrorism, and acted forcefully and successfully to suppress it. These days a different transformation has been ta ...

His argument then was simple: Edgar Lungu, the president at the time, was corrupt, had abused civil rights and had caused the ...

From the moment Hannibal Lecter appeared in “Red Dragon”, a psychological-horror novel of 1981, readers were captivated by the character. Since then, the psychiatrist-turned-cannibal has featured in ...

So did Mr Trump’s growing confidence in the power of his polarising politics. After all, he dutifully read that first speech to Congress off the teleprompter, and it lasted just an hour. This time, he ...

Today more than 2.5trn PDFs float in the ether. But will the format survive the ai revolution? PDFs still have drawbacks.

This matters because right-wing candidates are expected to sweep the Senate in Brazil’s general election in October. They may gain enough seats to impeach Supreme Court judges. The right holds special ...

Sonny Loughran, our Britain intern, explains why it will be hard to convict Peter Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ...

The showdown took place during a meeting at the Pentagon between Mr Hegseth and Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s boss, whose credo ...

When leaders of mid-sized countries lament a world dominated by America, China, Russia and other bullies, Mr Stubb stands out for insisting that middle powers can look after themselves. This ...

Indian citizens may have felt less than divine when, just three days later, Mr Modi arrived to inaugurate the AI Impact ...