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
by Our Correspondent in New Delhi In a move that is already reverberating across the strategic landscape of the Indian Ocean, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) has formally acquired a controlling 51
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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch speaks with a clarity that resists time. Her voice, described in Observer UK accounts of her life and testimony, is forthright, steady, and entirely free of self-pity. It is not
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Slavoj Žižek dreams in patterns of confusion, delay, and bureaucratic frustration. In one recurring sequence, he is attempting to meet a friend, but nothing aligns correctly. Addresses are wrong, communication fails, and
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by Our Correspondent in Islamabad High-stakes negotiations between Iran and the United States in Islamabad have ended in a dramatic breakdown, with no agreement reached after extended discussions. The talks, which were
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What does it mean when a soldier describes his own life not as a sequence of postings, but as an unbroken continuity between home, border, and operational responsibility? This question sits beneath
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Jonathan Daly’s The Man Who Knew Russia, through its sustained intellectual portrait of Richard Pipes, is best read not as a neutral scholarly biography but as a forceful argument about Russia’s historical
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by Durga Changpeng Zhao’s Freedom of Money is an unusually self-reflexive work for a figure so deeply entangled in the infrastructural power struggles of contemporary finance. It is at once memoir, apologia,
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Bangladesh presently confronts a moment of acute political strain and profound normative reckoning. The permanent proscription of the Awami League—long regarded as the country’s oldest, largest, and founding political force—through the conversion
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In an age that rewards moral certainty and viral storytelling, conflicts like Balochistan’s are increasingly flattened into stark binaries: oppressor and oppressed, state and victim, resistance and repression. These narratives travel fast,
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Nine months after Donald Trump declared Iran’s nuclear program “obliterated,” the fragile balance between Washington and Tehran is once again nearing a breaking point. Following last year’s 12-day conflict between Israel and
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Oil prices could surge past $150 a barrel for the first time in history if restrictions on tanker movement through the Strait of Hormuz persist, according to market analysts, even as Brent
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US inflation accelerated to its fastest pace in nearly two years in March, highlighting the economic fallout from escalating geopolitical tensions linked to the war between the United States and Iran and
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More than 600 vessels remain stuck in the Middle East due to the ongoing disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, with shipping experts warning that it could take “several weeks” to clear
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In Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, a stark contradiction defines daily life: officials insist that the long-running war against Islamist insurgents is effectively over, while the surrounding region continues to experience deadly
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Sir Keir Starmer’s government has been forced to abandon legislation linked to a controversial plan to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after opposition from US President Donald Trump triggered
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