Germany’s response to the July 2026 attack in Berlin illustrates a gap between identifying a terrorism threat and taking effective preventive action, according to an analysis published in the latest issue of
The question Europe thought it had settled is returning with unexpected force: should prostitution be abolished, regulated or treated as work? The debate is once again moving from feminist theory into the
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The death of Ecuador’s intelligence chief in a helicopter crash in Kenya has raised questions about the circumstances surrounding his final journey, particularly because Michele Sensi-Contugi was travelling with five American citizens
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For Yemen, the danger is not simply a return to fighting. The country has yet to recover from the devastating conflict of 2015-2022, which killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, contributed to
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At least 57 former members of the Nazi Party sat in the seventh German Bundestag in 1976. Among them were early Nazi supporters, politicians who had joined as teenagers and figures who
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by Durga Velayudham In Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, the traces of Hui Ka Yan’s extraordinary rise and fall can be found in the unfinished buildings, abandoned construction sites and apartment
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The Reserve Bank of India likely intervened in the foreign exchange market on Friday to support the rupee, according to three traders cited by Reuters, as elevated oil prices and sustained corporate
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Hyundai Motor’s South Korean union staged its first full strike in a decade on Friday after wage negotiations stalled, escalating a labour dispute centred not only on pay but also on retirement
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Countries have restored 124.3 million hectares of degraded land under United Nations-backed efforts, an area roughly twice the size of France, but the figure represents only 10.4% of their collective national restoration
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Singapore has launched its latest response to Hong Kong’s aggressive efforts to attract hedge fund managers and other financial professionals, proposing tax exemptions on certain investment profits as the two Asian financial
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka is set to enter a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) when its current programme expires in March 2027, according to sources familiar
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In Karur, near the southern tip of India, the rise of artificial intelligence is visible not only in technology but in the hundreds of young people who fill the city’s streets during
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Several years ago, psychiatrist Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell began noticing a striking change among teenage girls and young women arriving for their first psychiatric sessions. Instead of waiting anxiously to hear whether a professional
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Editorial Nanda Malini is gone, and Sri Lanka has lost something that cannot simply be replaced by another singer. She may well be the last great Sinhala-Buddhist singer of a particular generation,
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A Harvard-led team has developed a method for keeping human brain organoids alive and developing for years, opening new possibilities for studying brain development, neurological disease and potential treatments. A team led
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The company says it has temporarily paused some advanced reinforcement-learning training as it strengthens alignment, security and monitoring for increasingly capable AI systems. OpenAI has temporarily slowed the training of some of
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