Category: 4. World

Ahead of the award of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize the Norwegian committee responsible for picking the winner was warned by officials in Beijing and Oslo that recognition for any Chinese dissident would have severe consequences. The committee…

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Every Friday, White House correspondent Hadriana Lowenkron delivers a roundup of the key news and events in politics, policy and economics that…

With the Trump administration’s counter-narcotics…

We’ve known something like this would happen for years. But that didn’t make it less shocking when it happened.

After attacks on Jewish shops, schools and synagogues across Europe, it felt like a matter of time before something would come to…

The US federal government shut down on Wednesday after Democrats opted against voting for a Republican funding plan in order to seek concessions on healthcare and other priorities.

It is the Democrats’ first major opportunity to make a stand in…

He received a lengthy standing ovation from activists – some of them wearing keffiyehs, shirts bearing the Palestinian flag and “Free Palestine” badges – when he declared: “We must do everything we can to stop the genocide.”

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