Samuel Warberg, the regional spokesman for the US State Department, feels that US-Qatari relations are currently going through their best form for more than 50 years.

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In an effort to quell stubborn inflation, the US central bank - Federal Reserve recently raised benchmark interest rates by another three-quarters of a percentage point and indicated it will keep hiking well above the current level.

Capitalism conquered the world by commodifying almost everything that had a value but not a price, thus driving a sharp wedge between values and prices.

Low-income Britons will see few benefits from the historic tax cuts announced by the country’s new finance minister yesterday, union leaders and anti-poverty campaigners said, warning that the measures would widen the rich-poor divide.

After two and a half years of lockdowns, quarantines, and mask mandates, billions of people around the world have returned to their normal lives. But in many ways, this newfound sense of post-pandemic normalcy is misleading.

Walking down a Toronto street recently I saw an ad touting a fossil-fuel company’s net-zero credentials. But to see such belief-straining claims, I would not even need to leave my house.

After a quiet start to the season, Hurricane Fiona slammed into Puerto Rico and then battered the Dominican Republic, leaving more than 1mn people without running water or power.

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia’s first mobilisation since World War Two after suffering a major battlefield reversal in Ukraine, an attempt to turn the military tide in what he has cast as a defining East-West clash.

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The world’s human population is forecast to surpass 8bn in the coming months. Compared to ants, that is a mediocre milestone.