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Indian tribes have been making mahua—the name of the booze as well as the tree—for centuries. Families do not pluck blooms, ...

France this year will spend more on servicing debt (€66bn) than on either education or defence, he noted. Mr Bayrou, who ...

D onald Trump has not been shy: he wants interest rates down, fast. For months, the president has berated the Federal Reserve ...

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President Donald Trump has for months sought interest-rate cuts in spite of tariff-driven inflation, only to be met with ...

Many countries use exit bans to prevent people accused of crimes from escaping justice, but the bar is usually high. In China ...

China’s innovation chains often start with grants for researchers, who find a placement in state-backed labs. These in turn ...

This month’s summits between America, Russia and Europe have produced no concrete agreements on ending Ukraine’s war. On land ...

The global ai race is defined by competing approaches, led by America and China. On one side is a nimble ecosystem of tech ...

L ike many politicians running for office, Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old New York Democratic mayoral candidate, is partly a ...