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Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has said the country must have a “powerful” currency. The yuan is still far from that. But it is ...

Then, less than three weeks after Donald Trump won the election, Mr Sun began to buy some $75m-worth of tokens from World ...

Cover Story shares preliminary sketches and documents the—often spirited—debates that lead each week to a design seen by ...

F OR THOSE in the doldrums, few things are more tiresome than being told to exercise. But unwelcome advice is not necessarily ...

Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, fired John Phelan, the navy secretary. Mr Phelan, the civilian head of the service, ...

Three years into Sudan’s civil war, the Rapid Support Forces has grown into a regional power ...

Now imagine that it has had its teeth sharpened and been possessed by the devil: that gives you a sense of the aesthetic of a ...

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What if Donald Trump tries to steal the midterms? Mr Morelle’s committee is in charge of adjudicating disputed elections in ...

I saw it for the first time in 1972,” Natalia Oliinychenko says, looking at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant; “it was amazing ...

Ever more people are going the distance. When gyms were forced to shut during the pandemic, many fitness fanatics turned to ...