The European Union has so far failed to secure agreement on extending its sanctions against Russia, with a dispute over two Russian billionaires preventing the 27 member states from completing the required
In a surprising twist, US and European intelligence agencies now agree that recent damage to underwater cables in the Baltic Sea was caused by accidents involving commercial vessels, not deliberate sabotage by
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On Sunday, China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) issued a stark warning about the growing environmental risks posed by invasive species entering the country through global trade, mail shipments, and illicit exotic
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After 471 days of captivity, British-Israeli Emily Damari, along with Doron Steinbrecher and Romi Gonen, has been released from Gaza as part of the Israel-Hamas agreement. Their return marks a poignant moment
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by A Special Correspondent As a Chinese immigrant, I was confronted with a horrifying and deeply racist encounter on the campus of a school I frequented. One day, during my walk around
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Unity Mitford, the British debutante who became infamous for her infatuation with Adolf Hitler, has left behind a chilling and revealing account of her time within the Nazi regime, now brought to
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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, one of the world’s most popular cultural destinations, has made the unconventional decision to reduce the number of visitors it welcomes each year. Emilie Gordenker, the
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Britain is witnessing a concerning shift in social attitudes, with a growing tolerance for dishonesty and fraud, particularly in everyday activities like stealing from self-service supermarket checkouts. Criminologists have noted that pilfering
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As the second-largest republic of the former USSR, possessing everything from tank and rocket factories and top research institutes and engaging in intimately close intelligence cooperation with Russia, Ukraine became a virtual
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In a landmark ruling on 17 January 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which effectively bans the
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Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them. Then social problems arise that persist or worsen inside such societies because
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We used to have “balloon” debates in school: The hot-air balloon is losing height and, to avoid disaster, people must be jettisoned. To avoid this fate, everybody must justify why they should
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by A Special Correspondent When I first walked into the office at The Commonwealth of Learning, I had no idea that I would be stepping into a battle—a battle not just for
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As Delhi approaches its assembly elections on February 5, a pressing crisis continues to grip the city’s most vulnerable population. Homelessness, exacerbated by the harsh winter, paints a bleak picture of the
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The recent remarks by the Chairman of a large corporate group, Larsen & Toubro, in India suggesting that employees should work 90 hours a week have been ridiculed by trade unions, associations
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Ottawa has issued a stern warning that it will impose “tit-for-tat” tariffs on American goods such as steel and orange juice if US President-elect Donald Trump follows through with his threat to
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