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In the West Papuan regency of Merauke, close to the border with Papua New Guinea, Indonesia is rapidly clearing land ...

is a wheel where they turn to tell him sorrow is gain. The way he sets his spine to the ironwork is a drag-line of grief: ...

Donald Trump has alienated a good number of his MAGA supporters by seeking to suppress the full disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Are his supporters angry because they think he is guilty of ...

I saw ​ the end of it then, I mean the end of it as it was, as my mother told the story of my father’s sudden deafness. The turn towards the deer in the snow, two pairs of black eyes, the earplugs ...

D onald Trump ​ likes to tell us that ‘tariff’ is ‘the most beautiful word in the dictionary’. He does not remind us that the word comes from the Arabic ta’rif, or tha ...

I don’t suppose Donald Trump or Keir Starmer saw the row of flags, black, white and green with a red triangle, on ...

Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks ...

The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described a later version of this life in a splendidly ironic letter to Francesco Vettori: ...

The main component of cigarette filters is a plastic, cellulose acetate, and trillions of butts are discarded into ...

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