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 relationship between governments and criminal organisations is also more complicated than a simple exchange of money for violence. Financial incentives are an important motivation, particularly because contract killings and covert operations
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Europe risks becoming dangerously dependent on foreign AI, threatening its economic independence, security and geopolitical influence. The warning is that decisions made now could determine whether Europe helps shape the future of
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For an awards ceremony defined by competition, surprise and nostalgia, the decisive story was nevertheless Widow’s Bay: a newcomer that transformed an evening of established favourites and farewells into an unexpected triumph.
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Bill Gates has spent much of his life at the centre of technological change. Since co-founding Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975, he has witnessed — and helped shape — the rise
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Japan and China are cautiously restoring dialogue after tensions over Taiwan, but deep strategic differences remain. Japanese lawmakers are seeking engagement, while Beijing continues to demand changes to Tokyo’s Taiwan position. Experts
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has urged governments and leading AI companies to act urgently as increasingly powerful and autonomous AI systems create unprecedented risks to human rights, essential
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There are moments in politics when it becomes clear that something is slipping. Or perhaps that someone is deliberately making it slip. In Berlin, the distinction has become increasingly difficult to make.
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For Elaine Vilar Madruga, writing begins with a small group of obsessions: desire, violence, memory, land and motherhood. These “fundamental roots”, as the Cuban writer calls them, follow her from one page
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi The BRICS New Delhi Declaration is less a routine summit communiqué than a broad statement of intent about how its members believe the international system should
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A prominent Chinese economist has called for a substantially expanded economic and commercial relationship between China and Sri Lanka, proposing the revival of a bilateral free-trade agreement,
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo China and Sri Lanka should deepen bilateral cooperation while expanding their engagement with BRICS and the wider Global South, Professor Wang Lei, Director of the BRICS Cooperation
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo China’s Yunnan province is seeking to expand media cooperation, people-to-people exchanges and youth programmes with Sri Lanka, while promoting wider collaboration in culture, tourism, agriculture, digital development
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Inside Anthropic, two words have reportedly circulated in corridors and private chats: “crunch time” and “endgame”. The first refers to the year or two that some employees believe remain before it becomes
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Diplomacy is usually conducted across polished tables. Increasingly, it is also conducted in the back seat of an armoured limousine. On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin closed
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It may be coincidence that, on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, bad news from the Arab world is once again dominating the headlines. But the latest
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