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
What began as a local dispute in Nottinghamshire, England, has become a cautionary tale about the creeping restrictions on press freedom worldwide. Council leader Mick Barton of the right-wing Reform UK party
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China-founded TP-Link Systems Inc. is attempting to convince U.S. national security officials that it operates independently from Beijing, but its Vietnam factory highlights the challenges of that claim. The facility, which produces
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Ten of India’s largest trade unions condemned the government’s rollout of new labour codes on Friday, calling the overhaul “a deceptive fraud” against workers. The unions, aligned with parties opposing Prime Minister
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Daily Mail owner DMGT announced on Saturday that it has reached a £500 million ($650 million) agreement to acquire The Telegraph, a transaction that would unite two of Britain’s major right-leaning newspapers
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Pope Leo has accepted the resignation of Bishop Rafael Zornoza of Spain, who is under investigation for an alleged sexual abuse case involving a teenage boy in the 1990s. The bishop, who
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European and other Western leaders met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa on Saturday to coordinate their response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial peace plan for Ukraine,
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In a devastating attack on St Mary’s Catholic School in north-central Nigeria’s Niger State, armed men abducted 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers on Friday, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) reported. The
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Editorial The latest rupture between Japan and China, sparked by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about the security implications of a Taiwan contingency, is more than a bilateral diplomatic quarrel. It is
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Bitcoin is on track for its worst monthly performance since the 2022 crypto market collapse, dropping as much as 6.4% on Friday to $81,629, Bloomberg reports. Ethereum and a host of smaller
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has rebuffed demands from Beijing to retract her recent remarks regarding Taiwan, insisting that Tokyo’s stance on responding to a major regional security crisis remains unchanged, Bloomberg
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Asian and Pacific governments convened this week at a United Nations forum to confront a mounting challenge: developing countries worldwide now face an estimated US$4 trillion financing gap needed to meet their
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Sri Lanka has wrapped up a wide-ranging trade and investment mission in Canada that spanned Toronto, Quebec, Montreal, Saskatchewan, and Vancouver, marking one of the country’s most extensive commercial outreach efforts in
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Niger has marked a transformative leap in its digital future with the provisional handover of more than 1,000 kilometers of fibre-optic cable under the Trans-Sahara Optical Fibre Backbone Project, financed by the
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The African Energy Chamber used the Wider African Energy Summit in Aberdeen to deliver a pointed message: Africa’s oil and gas future demands realism, collaboration, and renewed UK engagement. Speaking at the
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GE Vernova is spotlighting a landmark achievement in regional energy integration as it participates in the B20 South Africa Energy Mix & Just Transition Task Force. The company supported the West African
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