The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
The Panama Canal is reducing the number of ships permitted to pass through the waterway as unusually low rainfall linked to the El Niño climate phenomenon puts pressure on its water resources.
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A court in Hong Kong has convicted two organisers of annual vigils commemorating the bloody suppression of the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing, further narrowing the space for public remembrance of an
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Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz has warned Turkey against what he called “dangerous adventures” in Syria, addressing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan directly in Turkish in a message on X. Katz said Israel
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US prosecutors have charged a woman with allegedly plotting to bomb the New York State Capitol, kill lawmakers and then leave the country to join Islamic State, in a case that authorities
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A referendum on 27 September will force Swiss voters to decide whether the country’s historic neutrality should prevent it from imposing economic sanctions on countries at war, a proposal backed by the
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Japan is preparing to give its military and police new powers to counter cyberattacks at their source, marking a significant expansion of the country’s security posture and raising questions about the limits
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The question Europe thought it had settled is returning with unexpected force: should prostitution be abolished, regulated or treated as work? The debate is once again moving from feminist theory into the
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The death of Ecuador’s intelligence chief in a helicopter crash in Kenya has raised questions about the circumstances surrounding his final journey, particularly because Michele Sensi-Contugi was travelling with five American citizens
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For Yemen, the danger is not simply a return to fighting. The country has yet to recover from the devastating conflict of 2015-2022, which killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, contributed to
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At least 57 former members of the Nazi Party sat in the seventh German Bundestag in 1976. Among them were early Nazi supporters, politicians who had joined as teenagers and figures who
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by Durga Velayudham In Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, the traces of Hui Ka Yan’s extraordinary rise and fall can be found in the unfinished buildings, abandoned construction sites and apartment
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The Reserve Bank of India likely intervened in the foreign exchange market on Friday to support the rupee, according to three traders cited by Reuters, as elevated oil prices and sustained corporate
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Hyundai Motor’s South Korean union staged its first full strike in a decade on Friday after wage negotiations stalled, escalating a labour dispute centred not only on pay but also on retirement
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Countries have restored 124.3 million hectares of degraded land under United Nations-backed efforts, an area roughly twice the size of France, but the figure represents only 10.4% of their collective national restoration
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Singapore has launched its latest response to Hong Kong’s aggressive efforts to attract hedge fund managers and other financial professionals, proposing tax exemptions on certain investment profits as the two Asian financial
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