Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal
A sweeping legal battle in London has exposed what authorities describe as one of the most audacious people-smuggling operations to infiltrate Britain in decades — allegedly masterminded by two Iraqi-Kurdish men who
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A sweeping new analysis has exposed the scale at which British universities have been drawn into China’s strategic effort to harvest overseas research, with more than 8,000 joint scientific papers linking UK
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High in the remote Qandil mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan — long considered impenetrable terrain and the heart of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) insurgency — an extraordinary shift is underway. For the
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China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) has issued a stark warning that foreign spy agencies are deploying malicious Wi-Fi networks near government offices to steal sensitive data from public employees. In a
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Reform UK has triggered a political storm after securing a record-breaking £9 million donation from cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne, a revelation first highlighted in reporting by Bloomberg. The unprecedented sum — the
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Asian companies and governments are rapidly expanding their reliance on euro-denominated financing, signaling a significant shift in global funding patterns and raising questions about the durability of US dollar supremacy. According to
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Japan is pressing the United States for more forceful public support of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi after her warning that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could pose an “existential threat” to Japan
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Amazon has been accused of pressuring a major European clean-energy coalition by raising the possibility of pulling its financial support, as Big Tech companies battle over looming carbon-accounting reforms that could make
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US natural gas prices are climbing at their fastest pace in years, driven by record exports of liquefied natural gas and an increasingly strained domestic supply — a combination that is deepening
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New archaeological findings at a lavish villa outside ancient Pompeii are reshaping historians’ understanding of how some Roman slaves lived, according to reporting from the Times UK. Although enslaved people in ancient
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Hackers in South Korea have infiltrated tens of thousands of internet-connected home cameras, stealing intimate footage and selling it to Chinese pornography websites, according to detailed reporting by the Times UK. The
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Rowan Atkinson has spent 13 consecutive months immersed in Christmas for his latest Netflix production Man Vs Baby, a follow-up to the 2022 hit Man Vs Bee. The new series, set almost
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor The 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States published this week is framed as a repudiation of what it calls decades of “laundry lists of wishes”
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The Disaster Management Center (DMC) has released its latest nationwide assessment, reporting that the death toll from the recent disaster has climbed to 611, with 213 people still missing. As rescue and
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Editorial There comes a point in a nation’s decay when words like “failure” or “mismanagement” are no longer sufficient, because they imply that people tried and merely fell short. What we witness
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