America developed scatterable mines in the 1960s, during the Vietnam war. These weigh only one-fifth as much as traditional ...

Thursday: Jimmy Carter negotiated the Panama Canal Treaty, which went into effect in 1979 and established joint ...

As rich-world adoption has plummeted, demand for surrogacy has grown. It has also been fuelled by rising infertility, an ...

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His efforts to “repel the disastrous invasion of our country” by migrants and drugs from Mexico and Canada may soon include ...

I N THE LATE 1980s Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist, proposed a seemingly ...

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A ferocious New York lawyer, Mr Cohn became Mr Trump’s mentor, “introducing him to the netherworld of sordid quid pro quos ...

EU member states have been told to review transactions that have taken place since January 2021 in areas where these ...

The government has declared a “state of internal commotion” in response to the worst humanitarian crisis in decades ...

Even so, Mr Ellison remains the world’s fifth-richest man, and Oracle the third-biggest software firm. He has a thing or two ...