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 rapid rise as the world’s leading electric vehicle producer was not driven solely by Beijing’s industrial policies or state subsidies, but by alliances between local governments and private companies that helped
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JPMorgan Chase is reshaping its approach to national security financing with a sweeping investment initiative that will see the country’s largest bank deploy billions of dollars of its own capital into companies
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Warren Buffett has delayed his usual midyear donation to the Gates Foundation, breaking a two-decade pattern of annual contributions as he waits for the results of an internal review examining the foundation’s
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The Archdiocese of San Francisco has agreed to pay $395 million to resolve 530 claims of child sexual abuse, bringing to a close one of the largest Catholic Church abuse settlements in
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has registered his pre-candidacy for the 2027 presidential election, taking the first formal step toward seeking a third term after constitutional amendments approved by the country’s Congress
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A report examining book censorship in the United States alleges that the removal of books from public schools and libraries has evolved into a coordinated and institutionalized effort driven by political organizations,
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A congressional hearing on the CIA’s Cold War-era MKUltra program is set to renew attention on one of the most controversial chapters in American intelligence history, but questions remain over whether the
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This year has been a crazy time with regard to Washington’s treatment of artificial intelligence, and the pace has picked up in the last couple of weeks. This train of events began
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Sri Lanka must strengthen its National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) and take concrete action to address continuing risks of torture and ill-treatment faced by people deprived of their liberty, the United Nations Subcommittee
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More than seven decades after the fall of Nazi Germany, questions surrounding Josef Mengele’s escape from justice continue to resurface through fragments of forgotten records and unresolved investigations. One of the latest
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When Israeli forces withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000 after 18 years of occupation, the departure became a symbol of a campaign many Israelis had come to view as costly and unresolved.
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Artificial intelligence researchers are shifting their focus from models that generate responses to AI agents that can carry out complex tasks in the real world, with the goal of creating systems that
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A bitter legal dispute involving members of Thailand’s billionaire family behind the Singha beer empire has drawn renewed attention to a century-old law that allows parents to revoke gifts from children accused
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The push comes after a series of incidents involving alleged industrial espionage, technology smuggling and illicit activities that have highlighted vulnerabilities in Japan’s economic system. Cases involving suspected theft of industrial secrets,
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Sovereign wealth funds and central banks managing $29 trillion in assets are reassessing their investment strategies as concerns grow over the long-term role of the US dollar, according to a survey published
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