Creators of the world’s most trusted dictionaries, Oxford University Press, have been busy updating their children’s ...

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Udhayanidhi Stalin releases the fourth volume of the Tamil-Indo-European Root Words Comparative Dictionary at an international conference.

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In a major setback for President Trump’s economic agenda, the court ruled that he could not invoke an emergency power to set tariffs on imports.

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