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Joe Edwards is a Live News Reporter based in Newsweek's London Bureau. He covers topics related to weather, climate, and extreme weather events. Joe joined Newsweek in April 2024 after graduating ...

The map, which has been seen by the Sunday Times, shows four Israeli military areas in the north, south, and centre of the Gaza Strip, with three civilian zones sandwiched between. Civilians will be ...

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual. A rectangle and the word “Klosterkullen,” which translates to ...

Central banks around the world are lowering borrowing costs as global inflation eases from the multi-decade highs reached in many countries in recent years. The FT global inflation and interest ...

On February 24 2022, the world awoke to news that Russian missiles had struck targets across Ukraine and used tanks to blast through the border. The invasion came after months of rare public ...

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