Turkey has entered the increasingly contested race to lead the United Nations, nominating veteran diplomat Feridun Sinirlioglu for the organisation’s top position as negotiations over the successor to Secretary-General António Guterres remain
The year 2025 witnessed escalated threats from the United States on the Global South. In the span of months, Washington declared Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety,” threatened to invade Nigeria “guns-a-blazing” to protect Christians from
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Oracle Corp. has delayed completion dates for several of the data centers it is building for OpenAI, shifting targets from 2027 to 2028 due to significant labor and materials shortages, according to
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Artificial intelligence is expanding so quickly that investing in its future has become both thrilling and fraught, according to a sweeping Bloomberg analysis based on interviews with four top investment strategists. With
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A newly released set of photographs from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate shows the disgraced financier alongside a number of high-profile figures, including former Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates,
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Pope Leo temporarily shifted his focus from global poverty to the shadowy world of intelligence on Friday, hosting an unusually high-profile audience for Italy’s top spies inside the Vatican. The rare gathering
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At first, mental-health videos on TikTok made Amy Russell feel understood. The 35-year-old saw creators joking about ADHD and sharing tips that resembled her own struggles. After two years of watching such
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The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Alice Jill Edwards, has issued a stark warning to Pakistan, urging immediate action after receiving reports that former Prime Minister Imran Khan is being held in
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India has simplified its visa procedures for Chinese professionals, cutting bureaucratic layers and reducing approval times to less than a month, officials said, in a move intended to strengthen economic ties and
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Intel has tested advanced chipmaking tools this year from ACM Research, a California-based firm with R&D and manufacturing units in China and South Korea, sources familiar with the matter said, sparking concern
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The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in September to its lowest level in more than five years, fueled by a jump in exports and only modest growth in imports, according to data
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The UK has launched a new spy agency, Military Intelligence Services (MIS), to confront a sharp rise in espionage and sabotage targeting armed forces personnel and Ministry of Defence staff, Times UK
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Europe must prepare for large-scale conflict as Russia emerges as a direct threat, Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte warned, Times UK reported. Speaking on Thursday, Rutte said “conflict is at our door”
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Belgium has warned it could take legal action if the European Union overrides its national veto to seize frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine, intensifying diplomatic tensions ahead of a planned EU
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Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president of France, has published a 216-page memoir, Le journal d’un prisonnier (The Diary of a Prisoner), detailing his three-week incarceration in La Santé prison following his October
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Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin said on Thursday he plans to resign midway through his term, telling Reuters he has felt “humiliated” and sidelined by the interim administration led by Nobel laureate Muhammad
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