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Myanmar’s ruling generals have form in exploiting natural catastrophes to gain military advantage. When the country was hit ...

In practice there will be nothing liberating about it. Over the two months since returning to the White House, Mr Trump will ...

They pushed him to hold elections in the middle of the war, believing no doubt that Ukrainian voters would do them the favour ...

Within days of Mr Dagalo’s entreaties the Rapid Support Forces ( RSF) ceded control of the presidential palace in Khartoum, ...

Damage is reported in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city (which lies 600km away from the epicentre) and in Naypyidaw, the country ...

The conditions in which the atomic bomb was produced can’t be replicated in the race for superintelligence, writes the ...

I N RECENT WEEKS Jonathan Powell, Britain’s national security adviser, has emerged as a crucial participant in negotiations ...

Barnes & Noble hopes to capture some of the magic. Its bookstores offer “exclusive editions” of new releases, which ...

These instances are the tip of a vast iceberg. Over the past decade China’s hacking programme has grown rapidly, to the point ...

But backing Israel is expensive and Mr Trump hates spending lavishly to defend America’s allies. On top of $18bn in military ...