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
On a crisp April morning in Beijing, what should have been a ceremonial display of unity within China’s armed forces turned into a glaring signal of turmoil at the top of the
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India’s Chief of Air Staff A.P. Singh has urged caution over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious plan to restructure the armed forces into theater commands, warning that such a drastic overhaul may
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In the early 1980s, former US President Jimmy Carter visited Stockholm. At a reception he approached Stig Ramel, the long-serving executive director of the Nobel Foundation, and asked with some bitterness why
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The Trump Administration is moving ahead with plans to sharply increase tariffs on Indian imports, signaling further strain in U.S.-India trade ties as Washington seeks to pressure Russia into ending its war
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Editor’s Note: The following insight was originally published in the Beijing-based monthly, Beijing Review. Can the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) emerge as a pivotal forum to mitigate the escalating fracturing of Eurasian
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At least 76 people, including women and children, have been freed by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) following a targeted air strike on the hideout of a notorious bandit leader in Katsina
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Europe calls itself the cradle of democracy and freedom. And yet it is also the continent that still preserves monarchies as if they were part of the natural landscape, unquestioned relics of
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The Prime Minister’s Office has officially announced that the news published by Hiru Media Network under the title “Prime Minister Harini came to see Ranil with Maithri
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The arrest and remand of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has triggered a social media feeding frenzy. The propaganda brigades of the government and the Opposition are red in tooth and claw; their
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The mother of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late Wagner Group mercenary chief, has said her son appeared “doomed” in the days before his death, following his dramatic but short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military
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India’s ambitious space program, led by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has garnered immense pride domestically. However, the current state of India’s space achievements paints a much less optimistic picture. Despite
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Weijian Shan’s journey from a teenager exiled to the Gobi Desert during China’s Cultural Revolution to one of Hong Kong’s most prominent financiers is a story of extraordinary contrasts. In an in-depth
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Senior political party leaders in Sri Lanka are engaged in discussions on how to bring former President Ranil Wickremesinghe back into Parliament earlier than expected, even as
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Close on the heels of the arrest of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala thundered in Parliament that everyone was equal before the law. Whether the suspects were former
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A number of Sri Lanka’s former presidents and senior opposition leaders are set to hold a special press conference in Colombo tomorrow in support of Ranil Wickremesinghe,
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