The impact of Syria’s civil war is scattered right across the country. It has changed the fabric of daily life, touching its streets and houses and…

With international efforts underway to bring Syria out of long years of isolation, diplomats are looking to Libya for lessons on how to reach a…

In under a decade, TikTok has successfully become a major cultural power across the whole world. Nowhere has its dizzying rise been under more…

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I recently organised an energy security conference in my hometown of Oil City, Pennsylvania — whose oil discovery in 1859 gave birth to the biggest…

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