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European leaders imposed tougher sanctions on Russia this week, days after Donald Trump eased US restrictions on Russian diesel exports. The president announced the surprise move last Friday, saying Russia would immediately supply...
It sounds “like the opening of a thriller”, said The Economist: “A young woman working in a Siberian research lab supposedly breaks a test tube containing a lethal plague pathogen. She is dead within 48 hours.” As authorities race to contain...
Lord (Jeffrey) Archer 1940-2026 “Jeffrey Archer, who has died aged 86, was irrepressible,” said Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian – “though not necessarily in a good way.” At various points, he was accused of lying about his background,...
For almost a century, American executions have been “private affairs, often shrouded in secrecy”, said Hallie Golden on AP. The last time the country formally put someone to death in public was in 1936, when up to 20,000 people gathered in...
