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
Iraq is being pulled dangerously deeper into the widening conflict between the United States and Iran, a geopolitical struggle that is now reshaping the country’s political future, destabilizing its economy, and threatening
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In Tehran, the first thought that comes to Afra each morning is not about work or routine, but relief. Waking up under the fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran, in
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New satellite imagery has brought into focus a significant development in China’s military aviation program, showing two enormous stealth flying-wing drones positioned together at a remote and highly restricted test base near
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Trump’s Iran War has turned into a frozen fiasco. American motorists face steadily rising costs of fuel. Many retail prices are also rising as the now closed Persian Gulf causes commodity
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The ongoing US-Iran war holds crucial lessons for India to sharpen its war-fighting capabilities, both in the short and long term. A few years ago, the Russia-Ukraine war gave the first glimpse
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There is a number that stopped me mid-sentence when I first read it. In April 2026, Gwadar Port processed around 11,000 standard shipping containers in a single month. For context, the same
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The renewed threat of a US troop withdrawal from Germany has stirred political anxiety on both sides of the Atlantic, but as reported by Die Ziet, the reality behind the rhetoric is
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The global race to dominate artificial intelligence has entered a decisive new phase, not in a laboratory or boardroom, but inside a courtroom in Oakland, California. As reported by Die Ziet, the
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The Spanish writer Elvira Lindo has returned to the years she once spent moving between Madrid and New York, reflecting on a turbulent period that now reads, in her view, like an
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During the month of April, the Straits of Hormuz continued to face the ‘double blockade’ of both the US and Iran. The word ceasefire in West Asian wars has lost its meaning
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly known as the Tamil Tigers, were a separatist militant organization founded in 1976 in Sri Lanka. The group claimed to fight for an independent
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The United States is facing a strategic reality it has long debated but rarely acknowledged so bluntly: China is no longer a “near-peer” competitor—it is a full equal. That stark assessment comes
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As the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah grinds into its second month, a new and troubling reality is reshaping the battlefield: the rapid rise of fiber-optic-guided first-person view drones that are proving
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For the first time, the U.S. Air Force has revealed imagery of its B-1B Lancer bomber carrying the AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution
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On 15 October 1987, Thomas Sankara, the leader of Burkina Faso, was assassinated alongside twelve of his senior officials. At the time, which I remember well, there was great confusion as to
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