Must Leeds always lose?

Attendees heading to Leeds Dock for the “Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum” in May are in for a treat. Infrastr...

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#Britain

Oxford and Cambridge are too small

Two weeks ago few people had heard of Tempsford, a sleepy village of 600 people in rural Bedfordshire. But it is located hand...

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#Britain

The clean-up after the LA fires is already revealing tensions

A hazmat team, on their hands and knees, sifts through piles of ash slowly, methodically. They poke and prod mounds of debris...

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#United States

Why Islamists in the Arab world speak the language of free markets

A POLITICIAN promised to open his poor country for foreign investment and wean it off aid, while Tony Blair nodded sagely. St...

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#Middle East & Africa

The vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that is Scam Inc

EDGAR MET Rita on LinkedIn. He worked for a Canadian software company, she was from Singapore and was with a large consultanc...

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#Leaders

Can Nintendo’s new console propel it to even greater heights?

The world’s most successful maker of gaming hardware has not released a new console for nearly eight years. Yet the fanfare a...

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#Business

Donald Trump poses a grave threat to others’ sovereignty and freedom, says Chrystia Freeland

LAST SATURDAY, February 1st, could well be the day future historians judge as marking the end of the rules-based internationa...

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#By Invitation

Catch up:UN warns against ethnic cleansing in Gaza; M23 rebels advance

António Guterres, the United Nations’ secretary-general, warned Donald Trump “to avoid any form of ethnic cleansing” after th...

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#WorldInBriefIssue

Catch up:Trump’s “ethnic cleansing” warning; M23 rebels’ continuing advance

The United Nations’ secretary-general warned Donald Trump “to avoid any form of ethnic cleansing” after the president propose...

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#WorldInBriefIssue

U.S. Trade Deficit Hit Record in 2024 as Imports Surged

The U.S. trade deficit in goods hit a record $1.2 trillion last year, as American consumers snapped up imported products and ...

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