At 27, Verena Bahlsen entered the leadership of the family company that had produced biscuits for generations. Two years later, she was gone. The departure marked the end of an unusually public
A rapidly escalating diplomatic dispute between the United States and Brazil has intensified just weeks before Brazilians head to the polls, with visa cancellations, accusations of electoral interference, tariff disputes, and growing
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Successive nationwide failures of Cuba’s electricity grid have plunged the island’s nine million residents into prolonged darkness, exposing the cumulative impact of chronic underinvestment, ageing infrastructure, fuel shortages, economic decline, and tightening
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On Angola’s South Atlantic coast, a new US$900 million Chinese-backed port project is reinforcing Beijing’s long-standing dominance in African infrastructure at a time when the United States is seeking to strengthen its
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Ambassador Olha Stefanishyna from her post in Washington as part of a broader reshuffle of senior government and diplomatic positions. While Stefanishyna described her departure as
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India has warned Meta that it could lose the legal protections available to online intermediaries after the temporary removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook reel, with Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications
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The recent migration crisis in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta has prompted renewed discussion over the European Union’s approach to border management, migration, and humanitarian responsibility. While governments have concentrated on security
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The artificial intelligence boom has been defined by extraordinary technological breakthroughs, record-breaking corporate valuations and an unprecedented race to build the computing infrastructure needed to power the next generation of digital innovation.
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by Our Special Correspondent Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan is set to mark three years in solitary confinement at Adiala jail outside Rawalpindi this week, as reports emerge that behind-the-scenes discussions
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As Israel moves towards parliamentary elections, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot has emerged as one of the country’s most significant political figures. His growing popularity reflects not only widespread dissatisfaction with Prime
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Just one week after a deadly attack disrupted Berlin’s Christopher Street Day celebrations, tens of thousands of people gathered in Hamburg for what became the largest Pride parade in the city’s history.
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Young people across India recently made international headlines for mass protests over the recurring leaks of entrance exams that help students qualify for medical schools and highly coveted government jobs. The Gen Z protesters won
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The oldest known engravings consist of zigzag patterns and parallel lines, carved into freshwater mussel shells at Trinil on the island of Java, Indonesia. These grooves, made by Homo erectus, date to roughly half
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As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus on personalities and ideologies or tend to link governance practices to differences among specific cultural traditions. Yet
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While Western collector car cultures have spent over a century maturing into multi-billion-dollar industries, China’s story is just getting started. As the world’s largest auto market shifts from raw volume growth to
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi The morning after India’s education minister resigned, Arundhati Roy returned to Jantar Mantar, where, only days earlier, one of the most remarkable protest movements in recent
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