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Only Apple and Samsung sell more smartphones worldwide. The company also peddles a vast array of devices that connect to its ...

T HERE ARE no big red buttons in the underground bunkers, or “capsules”, that control America’s nuclear missiles. Instead, ...

Koeda Yoshiyuki, a 51-year-old supporter, called Sanseito “the only party that can truly tackle the big problems Japan faces ...

This is the introduction to The War Room, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insights into defence and ...

Debt-laden Thames Water, the country’s biggest water company, is trying to stave off “special administration” (a form of ...

Yet Aspides provided little protection when Magic Seas and Eternity C, two merchant ships, were attacked by the Houthis in ...

A few thousand people—locals and students at this public university outside Los Angeles—had gathered on a campus lawn to ...

One sign of concern is that since Mr Trump’s inauguration the dollar has fallen by almost 10% against a basket of rich-world ...

Assessing where rate differentials alone would have put the dollar is not quite conclusive—over longer periods other factors, ...

Ideas for how to squeeze the country’s interest bill, ideally without cutting spending or raising taxes, are thus at a ...

America’s average effective tariff rate has already risen to 17%, from 2.5% last year. Among the wrongs Mr Trump hopes to ...