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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, gestures to the crowd as he concludes a campaign rally on October 19, 2024, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

What Trump’s re-election could mean for global security and American foreign policy

If Donald Trump re-enters the White House after the 5 November elections, countries like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea will be delighted

Former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger attends the ceremony for the Henry A. Kissinger Prize on January 21, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Henry Kissinger, singular US diplomat, dead at 100

While Kissinger’s intellectual gifts were begrudgingly acknowledged, he remains deeply controversial for his ruthless philosophy of realpolitik

Withdrawing from global climate change agreements and building more walls and fences to keep poor and destitute people out is not the solution. (John McCann/M&G)

Borders can’t stem migrants’ search for a better life

Young Vietnamese driven by poverty, made worse by climate change, became traffickers’ victims

Journalists swarm around a Vietnam War-era Mark 82 bomb

Unmaking the mines of Mekong

Feeling blindly in the murk, brave divers are slowly defusing the river bombs of Cambodia.

In this June 8 1972 photo

‘Napalm girl’ a victim without a name

In the picture, the girl will always be nine years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs away from her burning Vietnamese village.

Anniversaries from ‘unhistory’

The way we remember the past often illuminates what we choose to forget.

Muhammad Ali set to celebrate 70th in Kentucky

Muhammad Ali set to celebrate 70th in Kentucky

Muhammad Ali is returning to his former hometown of Louisville, Kentucky to celebrate a milestone — his 70th birthday.

Hollywood’s new censors

Film critics rarely question the corporate control exhibited in movies such as <i>Munich</i>, which endorse Israeli policy.

Breadwinners face dark legacy of decades-old war

Unexploded cluster bombs scattered across Laos have left thousands of injured breadwinners helpless since the Vietnam War ended in 1975.

W and I

Oliver Burkeman speaks to Oliver Stone about his new movie, W about US president George W Bush.

McCain rebuts assault on war record

John McCain, accorded hero status because of his years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has hit back against a challenge to his security credentials.