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
As Christmas celebrations unfold in Damascus, Syria’s Christians are grappling with uncertainty about their future under the country’s new de facto ruler, Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
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by Durga Velayudham Katie Stallard’s Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea offers a penetrating examination of how autocratic regimes manipulate historical narratives to consolidate and perpetuate
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA is an incisive exploration of the Central Intelligence Agency’s multifaceted history. With a blend of analytical
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Electric vehicles (EVs) are expected to outsell traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in China for the first time next year, marking a historic turning point for the world’s largest car market.
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by Luxman Aravind President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is no ordinary political player. His mastery of optics, his ability to engineer public sentiment, and his uncanny skill in turning every action into a
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Editorial Last week, a staged drama by a Western media outlet sent shockwaves: Mossad agents, in a stunningly brazen display, openly bragged about their covert operations, including an espionage plot against Hezbollah
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Mauritius has rejected a key deal with the UK regarding the future of the Chagos Islands, leaving Sir Keir Starmer with just weeks to salvage the agreement before Donald Trump’s inauguration on
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Britain faces mounting pressure to significantly increase its defence budget, as adversarial nations including Russia, China, and Iran have ramped up military spending in recent years, leaving the UK at risk of
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China is ramping up efforts to tackle its growing demographic crisis by urging single people to date, marry, and have children. As the country faces an increasingly dire population outlook, local governments
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Donald Trump’s fascination with Greenland has raised eyebrows across the globe, sparking debates about the motives behind his interest in the world’s largest island. While the former
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The explosion of hostilities in Ukraine in 2022 has so far been a godsend to Western generals and military-industrial tycoons as NATO bosses rushed to ramp up their military spending. This year,
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Updated details of the Incident: An Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 flight bound for Grozny, Russia, crashed during an emergency landing in Aktau, Kazakhstan, resulting in 29 survivors out of 67 passengers and
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Editorial Today, as we ‘celebrate’ Christmas, we must ask: what have we truly done to honour the birth of Christ? How has the Divine been reduced to a mere commodity, manipulated and
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Foreign spies are infiltrating social media in unexpected ways, China’s Ministry of State Security has warned. In an alert posted Monday on its official WeChat account, the country’s primary intelligence agency outlined
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El Salvador’s lawmakers have voted to overturn a controversial ban on metal mining, signaling a new direction for the country’s economic future despite widespread opposition from environmental and religious groups. The ban,
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