The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
The race to dominate artificial intelligence is reshaping not only the technology industry but also the balance sheets of some of the world’s largest corporations. Behind soaring investment in data centres, advanced
More
Nearly four decades after the world embarked on one of the largest public health campaigns in history, the effort to eradicate polio has reached a decisive moment. Once seen as being on
More
The human heart has long been viewed as an organ that faithfully responds to signals from the brain, beating faster or slower according to the body’s needs. New research, however, suggests that
More
The United States has released a State Department report alleging decades of Cuban espionage and political influence operations inside the United States, a move that has prompted renewed scrutiny of Washington’s increasingly
More
Indian solar panel manufacturers are shutting factories and cutting production as they struggle to secure domestically produced solar cells following the introduction of new government sourcing rules, according to industry representatives and
More
Iran-aligned Houthi forces said on Thursday they had struck two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea as part of what they described as a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, raising concerns
More
Senior Chinese leader Wang Huning has called for stronger efforts to safeguard stability in Tibet, fully enforce China’s new ethnic unity law and further align Tibetan Buddhism with Communist Party priorities during
More
The United States and Saudi Arabia have signed a landmark civil nuclear cooperation agreement that would allow the kingdom to build nuclear reactors using American technology while also permitting it to enrich
More
The U.S. Department of Defense is on course to achieve its first clean financial audit by 2028 after new digital systems uncovered longstanding accounting errors that had distorted records across the military,
More
When the 14th Dalai Lama turned ninety in July 2025, he finally said what Tibetans everywhere had been hoping to hear for years. In a formal statement from his home in Dharamshala,
More
The effectiveness of Iranian drone strikes against CIA facilities in the Gulf has prompted a new line of inquiry inside the United States intelligence community, with analysts examining whether Russia may have
More
The Russian Embassy in Sri Lanka has issued two statements accusing the European Union of attempting to discredit Russia, rejecting criticism from the EU Delegation to Sri Lanka and alleging that European
More
A high-level delegation representing the European Union and several of its member states visited the Chemmani mass grave excavation site on Wednesday to observe the ongoing court-supervised excavation process, following the recent
More
For the principal of a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, the morning began not with the sound of explosions overhead but with a decision to protect her students. Shortly
More
The view from Ahmed Alafi’s home stretches across Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley to the snow-capped mountains beyond, but the former Hezbollah operative can no longer see it. The explosion that changed his life
More