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A deadly strike raises stark questions about America's anti-drug war ...

Centrist governments across the continent rightly sense a trap ...

Large language models can answer surveys and pass the tests to check that a respondent is human ...

President Trump is about to make the wrong appointment ...

Tom Carter, our Britain economics correspondent, argues that last week's budget shows why the Office for Budget Responsibility is needed more than ever ...

Even at an accelerated recent pace, seizing Ukraine's eastern regions would take more than two years ...