Everyone loathes a sycophant. Management experts warn about the poisonous influence of the flatterer. Academics cite the business risks of being surrounded by servile toadies. Leaders insist they are ...

By Lerato Molefe, independent writer, analyst and commentatorThe snow fell steadily over Davos, blanketing the town in an icy ...

Last week, business, government and academic leaders from 125 countries traveled to Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World ...

The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country’s interim president on Wednesday in a push to project a united front as they ...

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By Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed ... in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker ...

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

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