Marianne Faithfull battled labels all her life

Free love. Psychedelic drugs. Embroidered Moroccan cushions. Nietzsche. Zen. Tribal trinkets. Customised existentialism. Ossi...

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Pakistan is furious with the Afghan Taliban

It is a humbling admission for an old ally. “They don’t listen to us,” General Asim Munir, Pakistan’s army chief, complained ...

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Shein and Temu are in Donald Trump’s cross-hairs

For American consumers, online shopping has just got dearer. On February 1st Donald Trump did away with a decades-old provisi...

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The added dangers of fighting in Ukraine when everything is visible

For centuries the “fog of war”, the inability to see through the confusion of combat, has been a given. No longer. The front ...

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The meaning of Donald Trump’s war on woke workers

IT AMOUNTS TO a bonfire of rainbow tape. Donald Trump has declared war on DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion. He is alre...

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Allies will not appease Donald Trump for ever

THESE ARE heady times for supporters of President Donald Trump. In their telling, their champion has declared a new era in wh...

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Turkey is building a spaceport in Somalia

Alper Gezeravci’s first message from space was a patriotic one. “The future is in the skies,” he said from a Falcon 9 rocket ...

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Why auction houses are turning to private sales

On February 8th, after The Economist went to press, Sotheby’s was scheduled to hold the first international auction in Saudi ...

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Donald Trump’s eye-popping plan to make Gaza American

GAZANS HAVE lived through 15 months of war between Hamas and Israel. They have been repeatedly displaced. Tens of thousands h...

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Why India isn’t winning the contest with China

The pilot’s tower at Colombo port, in Sri Lanka’s capital, provides a telling snapshot of India’s struggle with China in Sout...

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