THE PRESIDENT was tanned, rested and largely coherent during a high-pressure prime-time interview with ABC News on July 5th.

W ORKERS AT POULTRY and fur farms in Finland will, in the coming days, receive vaccines against bird flu. Fourteen other EU ...

No wonder that, at a victory rally at the Tate Modern gallery in central London in the early hours of July 5th, the normally ...

When Britain’s new prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, arrived in Downing Street on July 5th, he was greeted by activists waving the Union flag, the Scottish saltire and the Welsh Red Dragon. The union ...

The Supreme Court ended its term this week, with rulings on abortion, administrative law, January 6th and presidential immunity. But controversies over impartiality continued to undermine the court’s ...

Hosting this year’s European football championship with little chance of success seemed to fit the sour mood of a country that an unpopular government is trying to steer through various crises. But ...

House of the Dragon” is the third-most “in-demand” television series in the world, according to Parrot Analytics, a data firm. (“Game of Thrones”, its antecedent, still tops the charts despite ...

Values-based realism is a good starting-point if the West wants to appeal more to the South. But this needs to be combined ...

CONFUSED AND incoherent, Joe Biden’s performance in the first presidential debate on June 27th was excruciating for his supporters. But the ordeal did not end when the debate did. Minutes later Jill ...

Mediazona’s and Meduza’s estimates can also be shown by week (see chart 2). Their data show notable spikes in Russian losses during Ukraine’s counter-offensive in the summer of 2023 and the aftermath ...

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