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
When the democratic will of a sovereign people becomes the playground for foreign intelligence machinations, democracy ceases to be a national voice—it becomes an imported whisper. In Bangladesh today, that whisper resounds
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As NATO’s next summit looms – against the backdrop of an escalating proxy war in Ukraine and a genocidal horror in Gaza – the sane and moral world must roar in defiance,
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On 12 May 2025, Abdul Ghani al-Kikli, known to everyone in Libya as Ghnewa al-Kikli, was killed during a meeting inside a militia facility run by the 444th Combat Brigade in Tripoli. Ghnewa, as
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Mongolia’s Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene has stepped down after losing a key parliamentary confidence vote triggered by public outrage over his son’s luxury lifestyle, throwing the resource-rich nation into political uncertainty. Oyun-Erdene,
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Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea is set to become South Korea’s next president, according to exit polls and partial vote counts reported by the Korean Herald. His victory brings
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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC In a pointed appeal aimed at reshaping geopolitical alignments, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Monday urged India to distance itself from the BRICS bloc and
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned that Britain must fully embrace artificial intelligence in public services—including AI doctors, nurses, and teachers—or risk being left behind in what he described as the
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In a new biography titled “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future,” Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey offers a penetrating look at one of the most
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Violence against women in Afghanistan has intensified under Taliban rule, with numerous reports detailing systemic abuses and gender-based persecution. The Taliban have institutionalized gender-based discrimination through a series of decrees that severely
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On May 24, 2025, Pappu Lohra aka Somed Lohra, the ‘supremo’ of the Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP), and the outfit’s ‘second-in-command’ Prabhat Ganjhu, were shot dead during a gunfight with Security
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As Europe approaches NATO’s 24–26 June summit in The Hague, its 750 million people face a decisive strategic choice that will affect their lives for years to come – and one with
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by Eric The death of Stanley Fischer on 31 May 2025 does not merely signal the cessation of a long and storied life; it marks the symbolic end of a cerebral era
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by Durga You step off a plane at Dubai International Airport. Your carry-on bag clinks softly. Inside are gold bars, chains, and raw nuggets dug from the scorched earth of Sudan. You
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by Eric Space has become an essential domain of modern military operations, acting as an invisible nervous system that underpins global communication, navigation, intelligence gathering and coordination. For space-faring militaries like those
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The ink on the European Court of Justice’s ruling was barely dry when a surreal scene unfolded in Brussels: while judges ruled that the European Commission’s refusal to disclose Ursula von der
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