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 has expanded export restrictions on Japanese entities, adding 20 companies and organizations to its dual-use export control list as Beijing intensifies measures against firms it says are linked to Japan’s military
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Ousted former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared that she will return to Bangladesh before the end of the year, dismissing a death sentence handed down against her in absentia and
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Australia and Vanuatu have signed a long-delayed development and security agreement that strengthens Canberra’s role as the Pacific island nation’s preferred security partner while establishing new consultation measures over foreign investment in
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As Chinese military and coast guard activity intensifies around Taiwan, one Taiwan Coast Guard officer says his frontline duties are reinforced not only by training and discipline but also by religious faith
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Editorial Today is our Poson Poya Day. The day we are asked to believe that we got Buddhism, even though, according to our own historical tales, we are asked at the same
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At 1.51pm on 31 October 2021, an email arrived at the Myanmar head office of Telenor, the Norwegian state-backed telecoms company, requesting the call logs of six customers on national security grounds,
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A panel convened by the Bar Council will recommend this week that the minimum age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales be raised from 10 to 14, according to reporting by
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On Wednesday morning, Anant Ambani, heir to one of the world’s largest fortunes, was on his way to work with his wife when he spotted an injured crow by the road. He
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The pickup truck rattled across jungle terrain toward gates topped with barbed wire, where masked men carrying automatic rifles checked names against a list before radioing for confirmation. According to reporting by
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A company that helped destroy farmland and threaten protesters in Liberia is now trying to mine the coast of eastern Sri Lanka, and it has not bothered to change its strategy, only
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Sri Lanka is sitting on the fourth rarest gemstone on earth, and instead of turning that into national leverage, it is letting individual traders smuggle it out through informal channels because the
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Sri Lanka just lost 2.5 million dollars to a hacker, and the two institutions responsible for guarding the country’s money are spending more energy dodging blame than explaining how it happened. That
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A suspicion can now begin with a simple feeling: a text sounds too polished, too predictable, too much like something generated by a machine. Increasingly, that suspicion is being tested through Pangram,
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From a converted barn in New Hampshire, with an American flag draped behind him, Ken Burns looks back across nearly five decades of documenting the United States. The filmmaker, widely known as
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Two Asian artificial intelligence companies have unveiled new frontier AI models within days of each other, positioning their products as alternatives to advanced US systems as Washington’s export restrictions on Anthropic’s most
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