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Parliamentary committee wants lower caps than ones proposed by the European Council and European Commission.

Katie Couric is sharing her thoughts about former “Today” co-host Matt Lauer. And, well, it’s complicated. The two journalists co-anchored the morning show — no, not “The Morning Show,” no

Cal Thomas In the 1950s there was a quiz show called “To Tell the Truth.” It has been reborn several times but retained its original format. A celebrity panel would try to discover which one of three contestants was telling the truth, as all claimed to be the same person with identical backgrounds. I thought of that show in relation to the conflicting stories and claims that have come from “experts” during the last 16 months of the pandemic. People, including two...

Talent and trust: The woman who rose to the top of Saudi Arabia’s banking sector How Sarah Al-Suhaimi used technical and managerial skill to win over employees and revive NCB Capital. Photograph by Abaca Press / Alamy Scholars have long wrestled with the nature of trust. Perhaps this is because our understanding of trust is flimsy: we bandy the word about and use it to refer to a potpourri of characteristics. In the days of togas and laurels, Aristotle argued that in order to gain the trust ...

Middle Eastern monarchies: how do Arab ruling families hold on to power? Scott Morrison and Jordan’s King Abdullah II. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) When the Jordanian royal family gathered on April 11 to celebrate 100 years since the kingdom’s foundation, it was a picture of dynastic unity. Alongside King Abdullah was his half-brother, the former crown prince Hamzah bin al-Hussein, who had only days ago been placed under house arrest, following what was reported in the world’s press as a “c...

When the Jordanian royal family gathered on April 11 to celebrate 100 years since the kingdom’s foundation, it was a picture of dynastic unity. Alongside King Abdullah was his half-brother, the former crown prince Hamzah bin al-Hussein, who had only days ago been placed under house arrest, following what was reported in the world’s press as a “coup attempt”. The king gave interviews assuring the outside world that all was well and that the former heir to the Jordanian throne had offered...

news ‘Himalayan Quad’: is China about to start its own security bloc with Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan? China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosts a video conference with his counterparts from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nepal in July 2020. Photo: Xinhua One of the most notable measures taken by Washington and its allies in response to Chinas rise and the threat it poses to the liberal international order has been the development of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or "Quad". China sees...

Leon Black pictured at his home in the Hamptons in New York. Black is stepping down from running Apollo Global Management, the private equity firm he co-founded in the 1990s. Apollo was part of the group that took over majority ownership of Vail Associates in 1992. Art Seitz/Abaca Press, via AP Leon Black, known locally as the founder of the company that would become the modern Vail Resorts, has been the subject of much national news in recent months. Here’s the first sentences of a few stori...

Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency In our increasingly secular age, being on the side of science is similar to being on the side of God — a way to settle an argument by not actually making an argument. Just enlist an unassailable authority and move on. That’s how Joe Biden campaigned for president, vowing to “follow the science” on the COVID-19 pandemic wherever it led him. Only now it seems like he’s leading the science as much as the science is leading...

Russian judges ruled against opposition leader Alexei Navalny in two cases on Saturday, paving the way for him being sent to a penal colony as well as issuing a stiff fine. The court upheld Navalny's prison sentence, rejecting an appeal by the Kremlin critic in a case that triggered international condemnation and