Patty Bonet, a 41-year-old journalist, television presenter, actress and inclusion activist from Valencia, has become a familiar face in Spanish households through her nightly appearances co-presenting ONCE lottery draws on Televisión Española.
Denmark has officially become the latest NATO member to enact gender-neutral military conscription, with a new law mandating that 18-year-old women be eligible for the draft starting July 1, 2025. The legislation,
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo India has reportedly begun discreetly stockpiling large quantities of fuel—both oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG)—in the decades-old Trincomalee oil tank farm in eastern Sri Lanka. Reliable
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In a landmark step towards enhancing maritime security and regional cooperation, the coast guards of India, Japan, the United States, and Australia have officially launched the inaugural “Quad-at-Sea” mission in the Indo-Pacific.
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Hopes by the British government to ease post-Brexit supply chain challenges by joining a major pan-European trade convention are being held up by Brussels, according to sources on both sides of the
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Nearly three months after her dramatic departure from the presidential residence, South Korea’s former First Lady Kim Keon-hee is now at the center of a growing corruption scandal that threatens to further
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A new United Nations report has sounded the alarm on the widening financing gap threatening progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific, urging countries across the region
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For over two decades, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) warned that climate change posed grave threats to global stability, from food and water insecurity to population displacement and ecological collapse. But in
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In a chilling escalation of hybrid warfare tactics, Russia’s intelligence services are recruiting Ukrainian teenagers as spies and saboteurs, using popular messaging apps and promising fast money in exchange for dangerous missions
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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy’s aircraft carrier Shandong will make its first port call to Hong Kong as part of a five-day visit from July 3 to 7, marking a
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Singapore — Sri Lanka’s fragile post-bankruptcy recovery demands bold leadership, institutional reform, and urgent economic diversification, according to insights shared during a high-level trade policy session in Singapore. The remarks came during
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British intelligence agencies reportedly spent over 20 years investigating a suspected Russian double agent embedded within MI6, only to close the case without finding concrete evidence. According to The Guardian, which cited
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At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces while attempting to access food at Israeli-run humanitarian aid sites in Gaza over the past month, according to reporting by The Intercept.
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Chinese manufacturing activity contracted for the third consecutive month in June, underscoring the persistent challenges facing the world’s second-largest economy despite a temporary easing in trade tensions with the United States. According
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When Alma Rosé, an Austrian violin virtuoso and niece of composer Gustav Mahler, was taken to a barracks at Auschwitz concentration camp known for brutal medical experiments, she feared death on the
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Behind a modest green gate on a rainy hillside in Dharamshala, a former British hill station in northern India, children in crisp blazers splash in monsoon puddles at the Tibetan Children’s Village
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