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The UK band reportedly expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments during a performance.

The UK band reportedly expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments during a performance.

The UK band reportedly expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments during a performance.

Trump micromanages his philanthropic outreach efforts, tasking his ‘princess of darkness’ Meredith O’Rourke with making multimillion dollar requests of corporate executives, according to a report

A woman who claims she died during emergency surgery says what she witnessed beyond life changed everything she thought she knew — and set her on an unexpected path decades later

After almost two decades, survivors of election-based sexual violence in Kenya are seeking equal access to justice.

If you spent one to two years when you were 16-17 years old and full of wild physical and sexual energy assiduously translating Homer’s The Odyssey from the ancient Greek in little (7” x 4”) gray books where you placed your English translation interlineally, trying to get every word precisely right and the syntax flowing …

Last Thursday, the European Union added 14 Chinese companies to its latest round of sanctions, accusing them of providing support for Russia’s war against Ukraine – but few of the names were recognisable to anyone outside narrow trading and compliance circles. Officials were taken aback less than 24 hours later, when Beijing – which had been notified of the ragtag group of traders and freight forwarders to be listed by the EU as far back as June – fired back ferociously. Unlike the long notice...

China’s factory activity unexpectedly slipped into contraction for the first time in five months, and construction activity fell to its lowest since the pandemic, underscoring a divide in the nation’s economy that complicates efforts to revive growth. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) dropped to 49.2 in July, missing the 50.1 median estimate in a Bloomberg poll of economists. Construction and services, part of non-manufacturing PMI, tumbled to 49 from 50.2 a month...

Scotland's largest city doubles as New York in the latest installment of Marvel cinematic universe.

Scotland's largest city doubles as New York in the latest installment of Marvel cinematic universe.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) says it "stands in solidarity" with Uefa and Concacaf in opposition to Fifa's proposal to sell stakes in its competitions to private investors.