At least 11 European countries have active contracts with Palantir, the US data analytics company whose software is used by defence ministries, intelligence services, police forces and public institutions, according to an
Deep inside Ukraine, far from the front lines but central to the country’s war effort, a new generation of weapons is being designed, built, and deployed with increasing speed and ambition. As
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John Pederson thought he had found a way out. Injured in a car crash and unable to work, the former line cook from Outback Steakhouse turned to prediction markets in a bid
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Air forces are the primary military branches responsible for conducting air warfare, securing air superiority and projecting power through fighters, bombers and reconnaissance platforms. In contemporary air warfare, victory is no longer
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Hannah Arendt raises the question of solidarity against the backdrop of a broken world. In the wake of totalitarianism, she insists, the Western tradition itself is irretrievably broken. That tradition began, as
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In a landmark development for regional trade, Pakistan has formally operationalised a new overland transit corridor with Iran, allowing third-country goods to move through Pakistani territory to Iran and onward to Central
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Most religions, other than Buddhism, aver that there is a Creator of the cosmos (universe) that includes the earth, sun, moon, stars, as well as water, fire, and so on, apart from
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Fresh testimony from survivors of the Iranian naval frigate IRIS Dena has intensified international scrutiny over the March 4 attack that sank the vessel near Sri Lanka, with new accusations that delays
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How does a state come to justify the movement of warplanes over civilian cities as a matter of necessity rather than catastrophe? At what point does strategic language begin to absorb human
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Ai Weiwei has reignited the global debate on artistic freedom after criticising the decision-making practices of major international art institutions, including the Venice Biennale. Speaking during the inauguration of his retrospective Aftershock
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Adela Cortina, one of Spain’s most influential contemporary thinkers and a key voice in European ethics, has offered a stark yet measured diagnosis of the country’s evolution over the past 50 years.
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The Guardians of the Khyber While the world’s attention remains tethered to the high-stakes diplomacy of the “Islamabad Process,” a more visceral struggle for sovereignty is being waged in the rugged corridors
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Europe is confronting a rapidly evolving security crisis as hybrid threats—ranging from proxy violence to cyberattacks—spread across the continent, exposing deep vulnerabilities in national defenses and social cohesion. A recent stabbing in
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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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