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
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro issued a stark warning to regional and global leaders on December 22, accusing the United States of an aggressive military escalation that he said threatens Venezuela, the wider
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The Trump administration has begun recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and senior embassy posts worldwide, a sweeping move aimed at reshaping US diplomacy around President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda.
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Cuba’s deepening humanitarian and economic crisis is poised to worsen as the United States escalates pressure on Venezuela, the island’s most critical energy lifeline. With Venezuelan oil exports increasingly disrupted by US
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China has made major strides in building a domestically self-sufficient arms industry, narrowing long-standing technological gaps with the United States and other Western powers, according to a detailed report by the Wall
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After almost losing decades of strategic depth in Afghanistan, Pakistan has now shifted its attention to cultivating a second phase of strategic depth—Bangladesh. Perhaps following the 2024 revolution in Bangladesh that ousted
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Bangladesh has been shaken by violent demonstrations since December 2025 when Sharif Osman Hadi, a well-known youth leader and a fierce opponent of India, died. Although the catalyst that triggered the situation
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In Bangladesh today, violence no longer arrives as an unexpected shock. Under the current interim government led by Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus, alongside several renowned human rights activists, violence now arrives
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A comprehensive 35-page research publication by the U.S. Department of Justice and its research arm, the National Institute of Justice, offers timely lessons on how the internet and social media influence domestic
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On paper, 2026 is shaping up to be a benign year for oil importers, with global supply expected to comfortably outpace moderating demand. Brent crude prices are already well below last year’s
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Asia emerged in 2025 as the central arena of global geopolitical change, no longer merely responding to pressures from major powers but actively generating them. The U.S. effort to reshape the global
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. — attributed to Niels Bohr It has been my custom, bordering on a private ritual, to begin each calendar year with The World Ahead of The Economist and
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An iPhone that costs about $100 less might not sound like a trade policy story, but in China’s Hainan Island, it is. As global trade faces rising tariffs and growing protectionism, China
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India’s control over the hydropower resources in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) represents a key component of its broader strategy to economically dominate and politically subjugate the region. With
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Bangladesh’s political future has become increasingly uncertain since the outbreak of protests in June 2024 against reservation policies favoring descendants of freedom fighters. What began as a student-led agitation has since evolved
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Police and paramilitary forces were deployed across Dhaka and several other cities on Friday following violent overnight protests triggered by the death of a prominent youth leader, raising concerns of further unrest
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