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
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has ordered an urgent company-wide shift to accelerate improvements to ChatGPT, putting a temporary halt on several other high-profile initiatives as competition in the artificial intelligence
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China and Japan issued starkly different accounts of a tense maritime encounter near the disputed Senkaku Islands on Tuesday, underscoring the depth of longstanding hostilities between the two nations. According to a
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The London P&I Club, the insurer acting on behalf of the owners of the sunken MV X-Press Pearl, is escalating its efforts to engage Sri Lankan authorities after the country’s Supreme Court
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Note from the Editorial Team In the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah, Sri Lanka stands at a critical crossroads — one that demands not only compassion from the world but also discipline, clarity
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by Durga Velayudham A moment after President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s recent address to the nation on the calamity facing the country due to Cyclone Ditwah, a grotesque spectacle unfolded online—one that once
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Why is America so dependent on Chinese rare earths? This question remains puzzling even in China. Americans have debated their rare-earth vulnerability for more than fifteen years, and yet it is shocking
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Archaeologists have revived the ancient voices of Neolithic Catalonia by analysing and playing conch-shell trumpets that were once used across settlements, caves and mining complexes between the late fifth and early fourth
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Global deaths and injuries from landmines and unexploded ordnance surged to their highest level in four years in 2024, driven by escalating conflicts and a wave of withdrawals from the international treaty
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Guinea-Bissau’s military authorities have imposed an outright ban on protests, strikes and any activity deemed a threat to “peace and stability,” escalating their control just hours before a high-level delegation from West
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India is preparing to launch a new generation of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) powered entirely by locally developed engines, signalling a major step in its push for defence self-reliance. According to
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It was a rare stroke of luck for Somali and US forces locked in a grinding war against the Islamic State’s most dangerous surviving branch. A captured ISIS fighter, exhausted and bleeding
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A sanctioned Russian-Israeli billionaire is suing the British government in a high-stakes international arbitration case, challenging measures imposed on him after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Mikhail Fridman, co-founder of Alfa-Bank and
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In a bright glass-walled laboratory in Copenhagen, Zoran Gojkovic lifts a glowing red liquid to the light with the reverence of a sommelier handling a rare Burgundy. The drink, called Rubedo, radiates
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A senior military officer has told an independent inquiry that a cover-up of potential war crimes committed by UK special forces in Afghanistan appeared to stem from a “conscious decision” by the
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A senior University of Oxford academic has stepped down after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, bullying, and unwanted advances toward female students and junior colleagues. The revelations, first examined in a Bloomberg
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