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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 U.S. presidents, Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Gheb...

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 of listeners, a speaker had to have ethos (character), pathos (emotion), and logos (logic). In ot...

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 “coup attempt”. The king gave interviews assuring the outside world that all was well and that the f...