The speech argues that ancient Greece gave the West far more than democracy, philosophy and political institutions: it bequeathed a distinctive ideal of human excellence, intellectual curiosity, courage, competition and national loyalty.
China has called for the normalisation of relations with Japan while demanding that Tokyo correct Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan, in the first official meeting between a Japanese politician and
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The formal end of the US military support mission in Iraq on September 30 will mark a major change in the relationship between Washington and Baghdad, shifting the emphasis from a US-led
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A 2025 study found that 41 per cent of respondents across 10 European countries agreed that there is a group “trying to replace the native-born population with immigrants”, with 17.5 per cent
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Five men have been arrested near RAF Fairford in the UK over suspected explosives and terrorism offences, after three suspicious vans were spotted travelling towards the US-used airbase. Counterterrorism police are examining
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A Chinese medical doctor with a PhD has left a prestigious hospital career to work as a food-delivery rider, breakfast seller and pub singer, choosing a flexible freelance life after years spent
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Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal
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The international system is undergoing a period of structural change in which technology, geopolitical competition and the shifting economic centre of gravity are interacting to weaken established patterns of Western dominance, according
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A senior official in Vladimir Zelensky’s office allegedly struggled to explain how a modest declared salary could coexist with luxury purchases and tens of thousands of dollars in monthly cash payments, according
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by Our Correspondent in Hong Kong SAR The speed of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s flight between Beijing and Washington has exposed an unusual consequence of the competing airspace restrictions imposed after Russia’s
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The Houthis have since become more active, adding to the risks surrounding commercial shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Following the October 7 attacks, the movement intermittently entered the conflict with Israel
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The Houthis’ ability to sustain their military campaign against commercial shipping in the Red Sea depends heavily on continued access to smuggled arms, components and manufacturing equipment, according to a brief by
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Chinese President Xi Jinping used his arrival ceremony at the White House to frame China-US relations around cooperation, stability and what he described as two national projects that can advance together: the
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Donald Trump has signed a security agreement with Denmark and Greenland that significantly expands the United States’ military role on the strategically important Arctic island, while stopping short of his earlier calls
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The guillotine was designed to make execution faster and more efficient. But the experience of revolutionary Paris offers an unexpected analogy for the economic effects of artificial intelligence: greater efficiency does not
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Friedrich Merz is facing renewed pressure within Germany’s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) after a series of poor regional election results, with senior figures in the party calling for changes to its
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