There was something revealing about the state of Reform UK in the decision to bring in an immaculately coiffured Frenchman to rally its annual conference. Jordan Bardella, who is expected to become France’s prime minister should Marine Le Pen win the presidency, received an
In an interview with El País, Scottish writer Douglas Stuart speaks about
Wittenoom no longer appears on Australia’s road signs. It has been removed
The crisis in Tirah Valley, Khyber District, is ultimately a test of
Tripura’s latest road and rail blockade by surrendered insurgent groups highlights persistent
Sri Lanka police have requested the Department of Fisheries to prevent fishing boats arriving from the outer sea from entering Beruwala Harbor for two hours on 6 September, citing a potential security
Nearly 30 officers and officials have reportedly left Sri Lanka’s Parliament in recent months to take up employment elsewhere, with most of those departing said to have moved to the private sector. The departures involve officials working in several key
by Our Correspondent in Colombo Former Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera is emerging in internal political discussions as a possible common candidate
Iran International reported on August 31 that its sources had provided information about three alleged recruits and an operation being developed by Unit 4000,
Morocco is entering a more assertive phase of its foreign policy, buoyed by international backing that has strengthened Rabat’s confidence and encouraged it to revisit questions of territorial sovereignty beyond the Western Sahara. At the centre of that shift are the country’s relationship with
The World Cup semi-final in July was more than a football match
Across some of the world’s driest regions, strange barren circles known as
The double earthquake on June 24 and recent torrential rains in Caracas
The Whole Picture On 4 September each year, the international community observes World Sexual Health Day, an occasion that invites reflection on one of the most intimate yet politically significant dimensions of human life. The day, promoted by the World Association for Sexual Health,
The US military says it has destroyed or disabled three Iranian oil tankers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), following what it described as missile attacks on two US Navy vessels patrolling international waters. According to the US Central Command, known as
Russian President Vladimir Putin has received US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve
The Pentagon has begun polygraph testing among senior military officials as it
Senior Serbian politicians and military figures have attended a memorial ceremony for
Morocco is entering a more assertive phase of its foreign policy, buoyed by international backing that has strengthened Rabat’s confidence and encouraged it to revisit questions of territorial sovereignty beyond the Western
More The World Cup semi-final in July was more than a football match for many Argentinians. When their national team defeated England 2-1 after a nerve-racking contest, two of Argentina’s leading players displayed
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There was something revealing about the state of Reform UK in the decision to bring in an immaculately coiffured Frenchman to rally its annual conference. Jordan Bardella, who is expected to become
More In an interview with El País, Scottish writer Douglas Stuart speaks about the subjects that have defined both his life and his fiction: poverty, fractured families, homosexuality, class and the enduring difficulty
More Wittenoom no longer appears on Australia’s road signs. It has been removed from official maps, abandoned and effectively erased. Nobody lives there, and visiting is prohibited. Yet for decades this remote settlement
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The US military says it has destroyed or disabled three Iranian oil tankers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), following what it described as missile attacks on two US Navy
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More The Pentagon has begun polygraph testing among senior military officials as it investigates how classified information about US ammunition stocks was leaked to journalists, according to US media reports. Around 50 members
More Across some of the world’s driest regions, strange barren circles known as “fairy circles” may be revealing something far more valuable than an unusual geological curiosity: naturally occurring hydrogen beneath the ground.
More Senior Serbian politicians and military figures have attended a memorial ceremony for the recently deceased war criminal Ratko Mladić, drawing renewed criticism over his public commemoration and prompting the European Union to
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The United States should begin preparing for scenarios in which extreme measures could be required to prevent China from achieving artificial general intelligence first, including state-backed espionage and military strikes against Chinese data centres, according to a former White House national security official. Jacob
OpenAI is preparing to release Astra, a forthcoming artificial intelligence model that
Anthropic has released Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, twin versions of what
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping digital infrastructure across Asia and the Pacific,
A Chinese-German research team has developed an ultra-sensitive magnetic sensor capable of detecting signals a billion times fainter than Earth’s magnetic field, creating a potential new tool for the search for elusive
A genetically modified pig kidney functioned in a human patient for 271 days before being removed and replaced with a human donor organ, marking the longest recorded survival of an animal-to-human kidney transplant and the first successful transition from a
China is stepping up its effort to become a global leader in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), approving a series of brain-technology products this year as
The United Nations Environment Programme has acknowledged that the world is on course to exceed the 1.5°C limit established as a key ambition of
by Nil Twenty-five years after the planes struck New York and Washington, the most unsettling argument in 25 Years After 9/11: The Future of the Global Jihadi Movement is not that al-Qaeda
by Eric Chris A. Rutkowski’s Canada’s UFO Secrets: Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our Skies is most interesting when it stops behaving like a UFO book. Its real subject
by Nil Rory Cormac’s Fakers is not merely a history of British covert propaganda. It is an anatomy of a state learning to weaponise uncertainty. Its most unsettling achievement is to show
by Durga Mahvash Sabet’s Open Wide the Doors: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Freedom in Iran is ostensibly a prison memoir, but its real subject is larger and more dangerous: what
