Katie Zacharia, the newly appointed White House press secretary, is facing questions about whether she is licensed to practise law in the United States after being unable to identify a state where
In an interview with El País, Scottish writer Douglas Stuart speaks about the subjects that have defined both his life and his fiction: poverty, fractured families, homosexuality, class and the enduring difficulty
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As relations between US President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have become increasingly strained, America’s ambassador to Italy has embarked on a very different form of diplomacy: a 383-foot
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US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s energy hub of Kharg Island was being “blown to smithereens”, after US forces struck two rocket launchers on another Iranian island in the
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The US government is facing a growing warning from bond markets as investors demand increasingly high returns to lend money to the world’s largest economy. At a recent auction of 30-year US
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo U.S. Ambassador Eric Meyer has formally begun his tenure in Sri Lanka, pledging to strengthen ties with Colombo, expand economic opportunities and deepen security cooperation as Washington
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The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States, according
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The White House personnel report lists Natalie Harp as a special assistant and personal aide to the US president, with an annual salary of $150,000. On paper, it is a significant position.
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A debt crisis may not be imminent in the United States, but one of the world’s most prominent economists believes the country is becoming dangerously less prepared for the next major shock.
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The Pentagon has fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes for insubordination, extending the Trump administration’s confrontation with dissent to a military newspaper with a long history of editorial independence and significant
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The United States has imposed sanctions on further representatives of the International Criminal Court (ICC), including its president, Tomoko Akane, and senior court lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, in a further escalation of Washington’s
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The US national debt is set to surpass $40 trillion this week, months earlier than forecasters had expected, as faster borrowing reflects both the government’s widening fiscal gap and billions of dollars
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Ivanka Trump still remembers the moment vividly. Five years ago, she has said, she and her husband, Jared Kushner, were sailing off the Albanian coast on a friend’s yacht when Sazan suddenly
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French neuropsychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik, one of the leading figures associated with the development of the concept of resilience, has warned that societies facing prolonged uncertainty risk turning towards authoritarian leaders who promise
More Sometimes political reality can resemble a badly scripted Hollywood film. On 8 July, after the NATO summit in Ankara, US President Donald Trump appeared to leave Turkey in the customary manner, boarding
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US President Donald Trump reportedly travelled secretly aboard a US military aircraft from Turkey to Britain last month after what US media described as a credible assassination threat from Iran, rather than
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