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
The United States is confronting a far more entrenched rare earth dependency problem than its recent political rhetoric suggests. Over the past year, President Donald Trump has pushed an aggressive agenda aimed
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When Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te quietly stepped off a borrowed royal jet in the southern African kingdom of Eswatini earlier this month, he completed one of the most daring diplomatic journeys in
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An unusually large and heavily layered motorcade escorting President Donald Trump through Beijing during his recent state visit to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping has drawn significant attention from observers, particularly due
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In the summer of 1894, a young Mohandas Gandhi stood before the Natal Assembly in South Africa to protest a law designed to strip Indians of their voting rights through procedural sleight
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Throughout Bangladesh’s history, whenever democracy has weakened, the first blows have fallen upon its institutions. The judiciary, universities, the media, and professional organizations have gradually been transformed into testing grounds for political
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to invoke the “Thucydides Trap” during a major summit with the United States in Beijing was far more than a passing historical reference. It was a carefully
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In the vast rocky deserts surrounding Tinduf in southwestern Algeria, the Sahrawi refugee camps have long symbolized one of the world’s most protracted humanitarian crises. Now, after half a century of exile,
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Editorial What a move from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), as Indian missions remain deeply engaged in an intense global media campaign around Operation Sindoor and its geopolitical aftershocks, RSS General Secretary
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Internal studio documents from Elstree Studios have revealed one of the most striking misjudgments in film history: the rejection of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels as unsuitable for cinema because they were
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China has issued a sharp warning to the United Kingdom over plans to nationalise British Steel, escalating tensions between London and Beijing in a dispute that blends industrial policy, foreign investment, and
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor U.S. President Donald Trump has begun a closely watched three-day visit to China at a moment of heightened geopolitical tension, returning to Beijing for the first time
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The United States has escalated its strained relationship with Europe after the Pentagon abruptly cancelled a planned deployment of a 4,000-strong armored brigade to Poland, a decision that has intensified concerns about
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The United States and Cuba have entered a new and unexpected phase of diplomatic engagement, marked by an extraordinary meeting in Havana between the director of the CIA and Cuba’s top internal
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The life of Golshifteh Farahani has long unfolded at the intersection of cinema, politics and controversy, but recent claims linking her indirectly to a diplomatic incident involving France’s first couple have pushed
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The second day of a closely watched summit in Beijing saw Donald Trump attempting to downplay political friction with Xi Jinping after comments attributed to the Chinese
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