Taiwan’s semiconductor industry has become a focal point of renewed political tensions after former Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen visited the United States and delivered a speech at Stanford University highlighting the island’s
Sri Lanka stands at a crossroads. For decades, the idea of a land bridge across the Palk Strait has lingered in speeches and studies, yet it has never moved beyond paper. Against
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US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a new round of face-to-face talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping from May 14 to 15, a meeting arriving at a particularly
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The chief executive of Palantir Technologies, Alex Karp, has claimed he is on a Kremlin hitlist because of his company’s support for Ukraine’s military operations, marking a striking escalation in the controversy
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Austria has accused U.S. military aircraft linked to elite American special operations forces of entering its airspace without authorization on two consecutive days, triggering emergency fighter jet scrambles and raising fresh questions
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A newly published investigation by Bellingcat and Colombian media partner Cerosetenta has cast a harsh spotlight on the growing reach of transnational neo-Nazi movements in Latin America, uncovering alleged connections between a
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For decades, Boney M. represented glittering disco glamour, infectious dance hits, and the international optimism of late 1970s pop music. Songs like “Daddy Cool,” “Ma Baker,” “Rivers of Babylon,” and “Rasputin” became
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A powerful “super El Niño” climate pattern is expected to intensify global warming in the coming months, with scientists warning that it could make 2027 the hottest year ever recorded and unleash
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Few public intellectuals have spent more time analyzing the rise and decline of American global power than Fareed Zakaria. For decades, the Indian-born journalist and geopolitical commentator has occupied a unique position
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In Athens this week for the World Beautiful Business Forum, I took a tour of philosophical Athens. Beyond the Parthenon, I visited Plato’s Academy, the site of the first philosophical school. Our
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Ukraine’s celebrated wartime resilience is facing one of its most serious internal political crises since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, as a wave of leaked anti-corruption recordings threatens to draw President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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Public resistance to artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from online outrage into a more volatile and confrontational movement, with growing numbers of threats, acts of intimidation, and attacks targeting individuals and institutions
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The phrase “non-financial misconduct” sounds almost comically bland for a category of behaviour capable of shaking the world’s largest corporations. Yet inside boardrooms from New York to London, those three words —
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The administration of President Donald Trump has begun releasing long-secret government documents related to unidentified aerial phenomena, launching a highly anticipated disclosure effort that has reignited global debate over extraterrestrial life, military
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The United States government has released a sweeping collection of declassified files detailing decades of unexplained aerial and space-related phenomena, including accounts from Apollo astronauts who reported witnessing mysterious objects while travelling
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by Our Political Affairs Editor Vietnamese President and Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm is currently in Colombo after concluding his state visit to India. During his visit to India, he met
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