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
The German government has reached an agreement with the Taliban regime to accelerate the deportation of convicted Afghan criminals, according to German newspaper Bild. The arrangement, reached through “technical-level” negotiations because Berlin
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) delegation that visited Sri Lanka last week conducted confidential interviews with detainees held at the Criminal Investigation Department
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Colombian right-wing candidate Abelardo De La Espriella has secured a narrow victory in the country’s presidential runoff election, according to preliminary results, defeating leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda in a closely contested race
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Uruguayan journalist and football commentator Víctor Hugo Morales has intensified his criticism of FIFA, accusing world football’s governing body of sacrificing its principles in pursuit of billions of dollars in revenue. Speaking
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced Saturday that security forces had killed Ivan Idrobo, known by the alias Marlon, one of the country’s most senior FARC dissident commanders and the second-in-command to Nestor
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The story of Xi Jinping’s China begins far from the gleaming skylines of Beijing and Shanghai. It starts in Liangjiahe, a small village nestled among the dusty, clay-colored hills of Shaanxi province,
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The wife of detained former State Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Major General (Retd.) Suresh Sallay has lodged a complaint seeking protection for herself and her children, alleging that they have been subjected
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing the gravest crisis of his political career after reports emerged that he is preparing to announce his resignation today ( Monday), a move that could
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For more than four decades, Raimundo Batista de Souza carried memories of a place he believed he would never escape alive. Speaking from Porto Nacional in Brazil’s Tocantins state, where he now
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Across the vast expanse of the Sahara, a decades-old energy ambition is beginning to move again. After years of stalled plans, diplomatic disputes, and financial uncertainty, the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) has
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Michael Heseltine spent six decades at the centre of British political life, occupying some of the highest offices of state and becoming one of the Conservative Party’s most recognisable figures. Yet, at
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When Charlotte Buttercase’s phone rang at 2am, the final-year medical student at the University of Manchester answered because she believed there could be an emergency. The call came from an unidentified number,
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Renate Welsh spent much of her life giving words to those who struggled to be heard. Through decades of children’s and adult literature, she explored loneliness, injustice, exclusion and the search for
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When Mark Carney and Friedrich Merz took office just over a year ago, both leaders faced a difficult economic environment shaped by global uncertainty, trade tensions and a changing relationship with the
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When Matthias Rohde turned towards the woman sitting in the defendant’s dock and said, “We are a couple,” the courtroom in Rostock fell into a moment of disbelief. After two days of
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