Spain’s railway network is facing renewed scrutiny over maintenance funding and operational safety following the Urda train disaster in Toledo province on Wednesday, 28 October, less than nine months after a collision
China’s Ministry of State Security has warned of what it described as genetic resource theft and other cross-border biosecurity risks, citing cases in which overseas organisations allegedly entered ecologically sensitive areas under
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The new Netflix series East of Eden gives John Steinbeck’s sprawling American family saga something the celebrated 1955 film largely denied it: room for the characters who were pushed aside in Elia
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For almost two decades, Regina Jardim has been recording the lives of Brazilian women killed by men. Her work began after her daughter, Priscila, was shot dead by her ex-partner as she
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by Our Special Correspondent The 30 September incident aboard a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv has revived memories of decades of aircraft hijackings and placed renewed scrutiny on aviation security,
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The FBI’s decision to place Goldy Brar on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List has transformed an India-based organised-crime investigation into a major American manhunt. The case, linked by US authorities to
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Ethiopia’s renewed civil war is intensifying across its northern regions, with about 150,000 people already forcibly displaced and at least 250 rebel fighters reported killed, according to the Ethiopian government. The fighting
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Trump evidently decided on his own to direct the Navy to build new battleships based on his having watched the black-and-white television series Victory at Sea when he was young.
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The arrests near RAF Fairford raise questions extending far beyond the five men detained. While claims of Iranian involvement remain unconfirmed and have been rejected by Tehran, the episode exposes a striking
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From Elizabeth I’s court magician John Dee and his experiments in angelic communication to Nazi Germany’s occult programmes and the Cold War’s pursuit of psychic espionage, this account traces a provocative thread
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The planned withdrawal of nearly all remaining US troops from Iraq by the end of September is leaving Washington’s Kurdish allies facing what the prime minister of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region describes
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For more than two decades, Pakistan has conducted repeated counterterrorism campaigns against Taliban militants and Baloch insurgents in its western regions bordering Afghanistan and Iran. Yet the country remains caught in a
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Iran’s economy is under severe strain, but its military apparatus remains capable of continuing the war. That contradiction is central to the country’s current position, according to an analysis published by Die
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Germany says it wants greater sovereignty in defence procurement, but confidential government documents indicate that its dependence on the United States is increasing as Berlin commits tens of billions of euros to
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The US government’s difficulty in adopting artificial intelligence is not primarily a shortage of powerful models. The harder problem is reorganising the institutions around them. That is the argument made by Garrett
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At three in the morning during the Talavera fairs, Gómez was walking with a woman who was not his wife. Some acquaintances spotted them and were understandably surprised. “It is a very
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