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
Niger’s military government has accused French state-controlled nuclear group Orano of dumping hazardous radioactive waste near a former uranium site, escalating an already tense standoff over control of the country’s uranium industry.
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Berlin police will be permitted to covertly enter private homes to install spyware after the city’s House of Representatives approved sweeping changes to police powers, marking one of the most expansive surveillance
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America has already lost the chip war with China, and the origin story explains why: the semiconductor stack was built as an instrument of state power—an architecture that fixed roles and chokepoints
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The United States has informed European allies that it expects them to assume the majority of NATO’s conventional defense responsibilities by 2027, a timeline that several European officials say is not achievable,
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Former Syrian regime insiders living in exile in Moscow are spending millions of dollars to build rival fighting forces with the goal of igniting an uprising along Syria’s Mediterranean coast, according to
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The global surge in artificial intelligence investment has accelerated to unprecedented levels, surpassing the scale and speed of spending behind some of history’s most ambitious scientific and technological undertakings, according to industry
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Netflix’s pursuit of Warner Bros Discovery began as a routine fact-finding effort but ultimately escalated into one of the largest media acquisitions in a decade, a deal that people familiar with the
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A long-running syndicate accused of smuggling military-owned guns onto the black market in Namibia and South Africa has come into sharper focus, as new information obtained by The Issue links the Ministry
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French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce significant updates to France’s nuclear doctrine in early 2026, according to a report citing a source close to the president. The source confirmed that
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The United States has lobbied several European Union countries to oppose plans to use frozen Russian central bank assets to back a massive loan to Ukraine, according to European diplomats familiar with
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BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust has logged its longest streak of weekly withdrawals since its January 2024 debut, underscoring waning institutional enthusiasm for Bitcoin even as the cryptocurrency’s price steadies. More than $2.7
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IndiGo has canceled all domestic flights departing from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport until midnight Friday, intensifying a wave of travel disruption that has stretched through the week. The airport operator
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened summit talks in New Delhi on Friday, marking Putin’s first visit to India in four years and signalling a renewed push
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Chinese President Xi Jinping accompanied French President Emmanuel Macron to Chengdu on Friday, a rare show of personal diplomacy that underscored China’s focus on France as a central partner in its engagements
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India has agreed to pay roughly $2 billion to lease a nuclear-powered attack submarine from Russia, completing a deal that has been under negotiation for nearly a decade, according to information reported
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