The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
Four days after Israel launched an intense aerial assault on Lebanon, Beirut remains a city defined by rubble, grief, and unanswered questions. In a matter of minutes on Wednesday, more than 160
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There is growing expectation in Tehran that the Islamabad talks with the US may open the door leading into the rose-garden. But footfalls still echo in the memory, as the US has
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In the ruined silence of Al-Fashir, a city in western Sudan that once housed more than a million people, a fragile paper map becomes the only remaining guide to a place that
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For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty has endured as one of the most improbable success stories in modern diplomacy—an agreement between two adversarial states that managed to outlast wars,
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At 4:52 yesterday afternoon, the President of the United States stopped in front of the waiting press pool for less than four minutes to take questions from reporters already lined up to
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Iran has emerged from five weeks of intense US and Israeli bombing with much of the core infrastructure needed for a nuclear weapon still intact, according to officials and experts cited in
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Elon Musk is entering one of the most legally turbulent phases of his career, with a series of courtroom setbacks casting new uncertainty over his aggressive litigation strategy and high-conflict public persona.
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by Nil What, exactly, does it mean to topple a statue and then argue about its meaning? “Yeah, he’s the founder of the country, but 300 slaves is a lot of slaves”
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The splashdown of a US space capsule into the Pacific, parachutes unfolding as engineers cheered another apparent triumph, was widely presented in the United States as a symbolic victory in the renewed
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally approved Major General Roman Gofman as the next head of the Mossad, marking a significant leadership transition in Israel’s intelligence establishment at a time of
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by Luxman Peter Magyar has emerged as the most significant challenger to Hungary’s long-entrenched political order in more than a decade, positioning himself as the man capable of ending Viktor Orban’s 16-year
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Early results from Hungary’s 2026 parliamentary elections indicate a major political upheaval, with the opposition Tisza Party emerging as the dominant force in the National Assembly. According to preliminary figures released by
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi In a move that is already reverberating across the strategic landscape of the Indian Ocean, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) has formally acquired a controlling 51
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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch speaks with a clarity that resists time. Her voice, described in Observer UK accounts of her life and testimony, is forthright, steady, and entirely free of self-pity. It is not
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Slavoj Žižek dreams in patterns of confusion, delay, and bureaucratic frustration. In one recurring sequence, he is attempting to meet a friend, but nothing aligns correctly. Addresses are wrong, communication fails, and
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