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Heading into the recent meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump, expectations were modest. Even the Indian...

The Washington Post reported Thursday that President Donald Trump is talking to advisers about issuing pardons to aides, family members and even himself in...

The City of London, with New York one of the two greatest financial centres of the world, is under a greater threat to its primacy than at any time in its...

It is one of the best untold stories in the annals of development: great strides have been made against malaria, a disease that was once endemic across the...

For seven years, U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell vowed to slay Obamacare if only his Republican Party controlled both chambers of Congress and the White House....

It isn’t easy being a Republican member of Congress in the age of Donald Trump. Every time he tweets something dumb or offensive Republicans are asked to...

An early election was meant to bind the Conservatives to Theresa May's agenda for at least five years, but instead it has badly shaken the governing...

By Kizito Makoye KILOLO, Tanzania, July 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - G azing at the exposed, rocky bottom of the Great Ruaha River, known as the jewel...

Science fiction has long explored the terrifying possibility that we are devoid of free will, and that some unpleasant creature could control our minds or...

It is an odd quirk in the history of logic that the blameless Cretans should have given their name to the famous “liar paradox.” The Cretan Epimenides...