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
Editorial “Are we investigating the truth or manufacturing it?” That question should hang over the Criminal Investigation Department as it jets across continents to scrutinise a former president over a paltry Rs.
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The Caribbean Community’s reparations commission will meet British officials and politicians from November 17 to 20, aiming to advance cooperation and promote public education on the reparations agenda. The talks come amid
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Britain announced on Saturday that it intends to revoke statutory duties such as housing and weekly allowances for asylum seekers who are able to work but choose not to, as well as
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The National Security Archive (NSA) has released a new tranche of declassified material that it says restores key historical records the U.S. State Department quietly deleted from an official history of the
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The International Labour Organization (ILO) is weighing a move of its Middle East regional headquarters from Beirut to Doha, raising alarm among staff over potential compromises to the UN agency’s independence and
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Singapore police have carried out one of the country’s most sweeping financial crime operations in years, confiscating hundreds of millions of dollars in assets — including luxury cars, a yacht and extensive
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The diamond industry is calling for urgent reform of the Kimberley Process, the international pact created to eliminate trade in conflict diamonds, amid growing criticism from activists who say the system has
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In March, HK Patil, Karnataka’s state law minister, presented a controversial bill to the legislature that allows the government to seize Bangalore Palace and its 472 acres of prime city-centre land from
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Four armed Chinese Coast Guard vessels entered waters administered by Japan early Sunday, intensifying a diplomatic flare-up triggered by recent remarks from Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi regarding Taiwan. Japan’s Coast Guard
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Sunday that Israel will not accept a Palestinian state under any circumstances and insisted that Hamas would be disarmed — willingly or by force. His
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The deadly car explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort on 10 November has revealed a severe security lapse at the heart of India’s intelligence machinery, with officials confirming that a highly sophisticated terror
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The United States has accused Iranian forces of unlawfully seizing a commercial tanker in international waters, escalating maritime tensions in one of the world’s most sensitive shipping corridors. According to a statement
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by Our Correspondent in Doha The world is preparing to make, once again, the one mistake it never seems able to stop repeating: sending soldiers to manage a political problem that soldiers
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A new book from veteran Singaporean diplomat Bilahari Kausikan, The Myth of the Asian Century, published as a Lowy Institute Paper, argues that the familiar narrative of an inevitable China-led Asian era
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North Korea has lashed out at the Group of Seven after its foreign ministers urged the “complete denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula, calling the appeal an assault on the country’s sovereignty and
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