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
China’s largest airlines are entering the peak summer travel period under growing financial pressure after warning of significant first-half losses, raising concerns over whether carriers can manage rising fuel expenses while passenger
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India’s state-run banks expect to raise nearly $30 billion through a special foreign currency deposit programme introduced by the Reserve Bank of India, according to five bankers familiar with discussions between lenders
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Canada will not share toll revenues from the newly completed Gordie Howe International Bridge with the United States until it has recovered its initial investment in the $4.7 billion project, Prime Minister
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Nearly eight decades after the end of the Second World War, millions of pages of surviving personnel records from Nazi Germany’s SA and SS have entered a new phase of public accessibility
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The Nicaraguan government has granted mining concessions covering more than 1.2 million hectares—roughly 10 percent of the country’s territory—to Chinese-owned companies, intensifying concerns over the expansion of gold extraction into protected Indigenous
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A rusted shipping container in the Johannesburg township of Katlehong has become an unlikely symbol of a growing crisis in South Africa. As sparks fly from a welding machine sealing its heavy
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The abduction, rape, and killing of 11-year-old Lyhanna has become a defining moment in France’s response to child sexual abuse, triggering one of the country’s largest judicial reviews of unresolved cases involving
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U.S. President Donald Trump used a nationally televised address on Thursday evening to revive his longstanding claims that the 2020 presidential election was compromised, announcing the declassification of intelligence documents that he
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In the shadow of Raqqa’s former municipal stadium, once transformed by the Islamic State into a detention, torture and execution center, children from communities divided by nearly 14 years of war now
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Former Inspector General of Police C.D. Wickramaratne has been found dead at his residence in Athurugiriya in what has been reported as a suspected suicide, according to sources. Reports indicate that the
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by Durga Velayudham The Easter Sunday investigations have ceased to be merely a search for criminal responsibility. They have become a constitutional test of whether Sri Lanka remains governed by the rule
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The fragile pause in fighting has opened the way for thousands of displaced Lebanese to return to the country’s southern border region, but the homecoming has unfolded in landscapes marked by destruction
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The evening of July 15, 2016, began like any other summer Friday in Istanbul. Traffic flowed across the Bosphorus bridges as commuters headed home, residents made their way into the city’s nightlife,
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A sweeping international investigation has provided the most detailed account to date of how Morocco’s security apparatus allegedly built an extensive domestic and international surveillance network using Pegasus, the powerful spyware developed
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As technological innovation continues to reshape societies and globalization transforms economies, one of Germany’s leading newspapers has turned its attention to an unlikely source for understanding the present: Homer’s Odyssey. In an
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