A series of meetings in Cairo and Doha have led to renewed optimism about the prospect of a deal between Israel and Hamas, ...

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In a surprise announcement on December 11th Ethiopia and Somalia appeared to make up. After negotiations in Ankara, brokered ...

Lego guards its bricks jealously. Early in Mr Sawaya’s artistic career, the Danish toymaker sent him a cease-and-desist order ...

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Boosting LNG exports ought to have been a point of policy agreement between Messrs Trump and Biden. The former had championed ...

Toyosu, where Mr Yamazaki has worked since it opened, is the biggest fish market in the world. It employs around 42,000 ...

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The Economist tries “slow journalism” with Paul Salopek ...

Hock Tan of Broadcom, which joined the trillion-dollar club on December 13th, does not fit neatly into either category. The ...

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