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
China’s years-long campaign to chip away at Taiwan’s diplomatic allies faces an unexpected challenge in Central America, where Honduras may be poised for a rare reversal in allegiance. Voters will choose their
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President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban held an unannounced meeting at the Kremlin on Friday to discuss the future of several sanctioned Russian-owned refineries that have fueled growing concerns
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Credit-rating companies have raised concerns over Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ decision to push the bulk of her fiscal tightening to the end of the decade, casting doubt on whether the
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India’s economy expanded at a faster pace than anticipated last quarter, highlighting the country’s economic resilience even as steep U.S. tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump weigh on the outlook for the
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Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings is in advanced negotiations to acquire a minority stake in Quest Global Services, a deal that would value the engineering solutions provider at approximately $4.6 billion,
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The Adani Group is preparing to invest as much as $5 billion into Google’s upcoming artificial-intelligence infrastructure hub in southern India, Chief Financial Officer Jugeshinder Singh said Friday, signaling the rapid build-out
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SolGold Plc, the mining company developing the large-scale Cascabel copper project in Ecuador, has rejected a second takeover offer from China’s Jiangxi Copper Co., the company confirmed Friday — a development first
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China’s electric vehicle maker BYD will immediately recall 88,981 plug-in hybrids due to power battery–related safety risks, the country’s market regulator announced on Friday. According to the State Administration for Market Regulation
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Hong Kong’s long-standing use of bamboo scaffolding has come under intense scrutiny following one of the deadliest building fires in the city’s history, a catastrophe that has shocked the world and prompted
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The Afghan man accused of shooting two members of the US National Guard just steps from the White House previously worked with the CIA in Afghanistan, newly surfaced information suggests. Rahmanullah Lakanwal,
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OpenAI’s data-centre and infrastructure partners are on track to accumulate almost $100bn in borrowing tied to the fast-growing but still lossmaking AI start-up, according to figures reported by the Financial Times. The
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OpenAI may need to raise more than $200 billion in fresh capital by the end of the decade to keep pace with soaring computing demands and global AI competition, according to new
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Sri Lanka’s politics took an unprecedented turn on November 27, as the government allowed widespread LTTE remembrance ceremonies across the northern and eastern provinces, coinciding with a path-breaking London meeting between JVP
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Editorial Sri Lanka stands at a precipice, and yet the government continues to behave as though the nation has merely been brushed by an inconvenient monsoon. With dozens dead, scores missing, entire
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by Durga Velayudham Sri Lanka is at the blink of another recorded disaster; sooner the blaming and shaming game of usual political catastrophisers will emerge. Failures of the government will try to hide
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