At least 280,000 people are missing in the war between Russia and Ukraine, according to the list maintained by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The figure includes both Ukrainians
The arrest and extradition of Iraqi national Mohammad Baqer al-Saadi to the United States has thrust a little-known militia figure into the center of one of the most significant terrorism investigations of
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Most countries of the Middle East and the Global South operating under authoritarian regimes share a single structural crisis, one whose substance is the acute and chronic fragmentation and weakness that afflicts
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A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) issued a strongly worded response on May 28 to a question from KCNA regarding the recent foreign ministers’
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A senior official of the Reserve Bank of Australia has delivered a stark assessment of how renewed conflict in the Middle East is reshaping the global inflation landscape and feeding directly into
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The investigation into the Air India 171 crash in Ahmedabad, which killed 260 people on June 12, 2025, has become increasingly contested as engineers, pilots, and aviation specialists question whether the sequence
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Colombia is entering a politically charged election season in which a new force on the radical right is rapidly gaining momentum. Abelardo de la Espriella, a lawyer turned political outsider, has emerged
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On the 17th of May 2026, Mr D B S Jeyaraj published his final column in ‘The Morning’. It appeared, as his columns had for years, without fanfare, a piece of careful,
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Editor’s note: The following excerpts are based on remarks by Lei, a commentator who says she was born in communist China, studied in the United States during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests,
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor A landmark assessment from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has revealed a sharp and sustained contraction in global peacekeeping, warning that multilateral conflict management is entering
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by Nil The Impossible Factory constructs a powerful and at times troubling mythology of technological genius centred on Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works enterprise. Rather than a conventional biography, the book
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At this year’s Google I/O conference, the conversation around artificial intelligence moved beyond chatbots and productivity software into something far more consequential: the possibility that AI systems could eventually function as scientists
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used a procurement network operating out of the United Arab Emirates to obtain sensitive Chinese satellite communication equipment linked to its military drone programme, according to leaked
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“If a monk, after taking on a monk’s training and way of life, without first renouncing the training and revealing his weakness, has sexual intercourse, even with a female animal, he is
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A catastrophic gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has left at least 90 people dead and dozens more injured, marking the country’s worst mining disaster in nearly two decades.
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China’s top economic planning agency has publicly denied accusations that Beijing is pressuring domestic technology firms to reject foreign investment, pushing back against growing international concern that the country is erecting new
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