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
Listed companies in Asia are set to confront annual costs of around US$336 billion by 2030 due to physical climate risks such as floods, heatwaves, storms and water stress, according to a
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Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong has warned that global trade can no longer be assumed to deliver mutual “win-win” outcomes, arguing that rising geopolitical tensions, security concerns and economic rivalry have fundamentally
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Indonesia has announced a sweeping overhaul of its commodity export system, moving to centralise shipments of key natural resources through a government-appointed state-owned entity, in a policy shift that has triggered sharp
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The question sounds almost philosophical at first: how long can a civilization survive before it collapses? But the research highlighted by El País treats it as a systems problem rather than speculation.
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Thiruvengadam Velupillai Prabhakaran was a man who held Eelam Tamil politics under his control for nearly three decades. There has been no other figure in history who exercised such complete dominance over
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It was both painful and humiliating to watch media coverage of Donald Trump’s recent visit to Beijing, because it amply demonstrated America’s decline as a great power relative to China. Prior to the summit,
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According to documents released and analyzed by the National Security Archive, the story of the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown did not begin in the skies over Cuba, but in a growing
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In a wide-ranging conversation originally featured in El País, American historian and journalist Stephen Kinzer argues that Iran’s modern political trajectory cannot be understood without returning to one defining moment: the 1953
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The most consequential artificial intelligence trial of the decade ended not with a dramatic legal reckoning, but with a procedural collapse. Elon Musk’s high-profile case against OpenAI, the company he helped found,
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Political and foreign affairs commentator Mohan Samaranayake meticulously deals with the overthrowing of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022, in a manner that exposed the failure on the part of the then ruling
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The Yunus-led interim-cum-marionette regime, installed on 8 August 2024 following the unlawful ouster of Bangladesh’s most accomplished HPM Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024, is portrayed by its critics as the culmination
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International media described the Hambantota Port and Mattala Airport as a Chinese debt trap. In 2017, the Maithri-Ranil government leased the Hambantota Port to China. India opposed the government’s decision. However, the
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Drop Site News has published a document, claiming it to be the original cipher from March 7, 2022, obtained from a military source. The world now understands this to be irrefutable evidence.
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For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty stood as one of the few durable institutional arrangements between India and Pakistan. Signed in 1960 after extensive World Bank mediation, the agreement
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As Russian President Vladimir Putin begins his state visit to China from May 19 to 20, attention is once again turning to the strength and resilience of China–Russia relations at a time
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