A horrific killing spree shakes Syria

Syria is in the throes of its worst bloodshed since the fall of Bashar al-Assad three months ago. Since March 6th Sunni fight...

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Catch up:American stocks slide; USAID cuts confirmed

Wall Street stock indices plunged on Monday after Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility that America could enter a re...

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Catch up:America and Ukraine begin crucial talks; drone attack on Moscow

American and Ukrainian officials began talks in Saudi Arabia about ways to end the war with Russia. Before the negotiations A...

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Catch up:global stockmarkets slide; Duterte arrested in the Philippines

Stockmarkets around the world plunged as concerns grew about Donald Trump’s economic agenda. In America the S&P 500 fell ...

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Catch up:global stockmarkets slide; missile attack on Moscow

Stockmarkets around the world plunged as concerns grew about Donald Trump’s economic agenda. In America the S&P 500 fell ...

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Why Britons pay so much for electricity

When campaigning for office Labour named five priorities, from kickstarting economic growth to halving serious violent crime....

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Orwell, Kafka, Keller:a new book taps a dystopian-fiction boom

The Dream Hotel. By Laila Lalami. Pantheon; 336 pages; $29. Bloomsbury; £16.99 HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-...

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Orwell, Kafka, Heller:a new book taps a dystopian-fiction boom

The Dream Hotel. By Laila Lalami. Pantheon; 336 pages; $29. Bloomsbury; £16.99 HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-...

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A new novel is published amid a boom in dystopian fiction

The Dream Hotel. By Laila Lalami. Pantheon; 336 pages; $29. Bloomsbury; £16.99 HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-...

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Mark Carney must keep an expansionist America at bay

As Mark Carney celebrated his crushing win in the race to succeed Justin Trudeau as leader of Canada’s Liberal Party—and thus...

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