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Trump threatens tariffs on goods from countries that sell oil to Cuba
White House cites Cuba’s ties to hostile powers as order ratchets up Trump’s pressure to topple its governmentDonald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday laying the groundwork to slap...
Niger’s military ruler vows retaliation after gunfire and explosions heard in capital
General Tchiani accuses France, Benin and the Ivory Coast of links to attack near Niamey’s airport and thanks Russian troops for defence efforts Heavy security has been deployed around the...
Music legend Fela Kuti becomes first African to get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award
Almost 30 years after he died, the Nigerian will posthumously receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Why China moved so quickly to execute 11 members of a notorious mafia family
The Ming family ran scam compounds along the Chinese border with Myanmar in Shan state.
‘Sell America’: is US market supremacy under threat?
Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, Donald Trump has tested the grit of investors
Earlier presidents would recognise—and even approve of—“America First”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is radical only in tone, writes Kim Darroch
Interview: Bret Taylor of Sierra and OpenAI
What the rise of AI agents means
Age gaps in relationships are not as bad as you think
On screen and in real life, they are getting smaller anyway
What are novels for? George Saunders has answers
The author behind one of this century’s best books is back with “Vigil”
Do Democrats need another centrist old white man?
Revisiting the consequential life of Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader
For the first time in half a century, astronauts are going to the Moon
They will not land. Others, both American and Chinese, soon may