Nvidia is fighting both Trump and China

One honourable exception to the roster of tech billionaires standing behind Donald Trump at the president’s inauguration on J...

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Ukraine is scrambling to find fresh fighters

FOR OLEKSANDR SIKALCHUK it was a routine mission, far from the front line. The 39-year-old draft officer had been escorting a...

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Which European should face off against Trump and Putin?

Aside from his gravelly baritone and his attempts at rearranging the world like Tetris pieces, Henry Kissinger is perhaps bes...

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Spy-satellite-grade images could soon become available to everyone

It started with a tweet. In 2019, during his first term as president, Donald Trump posted a surveillance photo of an Iranian ...

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Airbus has not taken full advantage of Boeing’s weakness

Boeing might have hoped that coughing up $1m for Donald Trump’s inauguration fund would ease relations with America’s incomin...

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Anybody in Britain can call themselves a therapist

For a three-hour session at his clinic in Belsize Park, in north London, Mike Lousada charged £750 (at the time equivalent to...

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Britain halves its foreign-aid budget

Britain used to pride itself on being a star among those helping poorer parts of the world. In 2020 it was one of only seven ...

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Britain’s capital markets are waging a war on paper

British companies are drowning in unnecessary paperwork. An antiquated system, whereby a few listed shares are held in paper ...

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Could there be Chinese troops in Europe?

Since russia’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago, China has been a stalwart supporter of its giant neighbour, and has mostl...

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Germany’s election victor must ditch its debt rules—immediately

FRIEDRICH MERZ, who is likely to become Germany’s next chancellor, used his victory in elections on February 23rd to issue a ...

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