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Barack Obama, when asked how his foreign policy was different from that of George W Bush, used to like to sum it up this way: “Don’t Do Stupid Shit.” That’s not a phrase that the scrupulously polite Rishi Sunak would ever dream of encouraging his staff to brief out to…

The bill signing comes after months of work on Capitol Hill and years of changed attitudes — even as the threat looms that the conservative Supreme Court could roll back same-sex marriage rights.

Chinese leader who oversaw economic growth and a stable relationship with the US, and encouraged his country to ‘enter the world’

If the reaction to Turkish incursions or continued aerial bombardment against Kurdish targets in northern Syria does not meet Kurdish expectations and demands, it wouldn’t be the first time Kurds are betrayed by the US or the West. In the past century, the global and regional balance of power has…

As US meets Iran in critical World Cup match in Qatar, Al Jazeera looks at the volatile history between the two nations.

If everybody gets it wrong, then for career-building purposes, nobody did.

John Bolton is latest ex-White House official to condemn former boss and says Republicans are ready for a ‘fresh face’

From rapacious businessmen to political power brokers, this literature extends from biographies of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Tiny Rowland to novels by Scott Fitzgerald and Preti Taneja

The Big Yin has been a stalwart in the global comedy scene from 1972 onwards, and is a big part of Glaswegian culture - here we look back on some of his funniest moments.