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 cry echoes up and down New York City’s crowded streets. Out of nowhere has emerged a malevolent Muslim candidate for mayor named Zohran Mamdani. He’s 33 years old and born in
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On 25 June, the youth erupted once more onto Kenya’s streets. One year to the day after the struggle to stop Ruto’s Finance Bill 2024 culminated in spectacular scenes of the youth
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A decade ago, I was a fly on the wall during a trade negotiation between the United States and a small country in Southeast Asia. What interested me was not the substance
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A former British paratrooper, known only as Soldier C for his safety, is once again under investigation over the fatal 1972 shooting of Joe McCann, a prominent Official IRA commander during the
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Leading executives from major European companies, including Airbus and BNP Paribas, have urged the European Union to halt its landmark Artificial Intelligence Act, according to an open letter seen by the Financial
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The US President Donald Trump’s latest Truth Social post yesterday on Iran nuclear issue reads as follows: “Tell phony Democrat Senator Chris Coons that I am not offering Iran ANYTHING, unlike Obama, who
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Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes reduced the renowned Israeli military-affiliated Weizmann Institute of Science, located in the city of Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, to smoldering ruins. Once a cornerstone of the Israeli regime’s
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Editor’s Note: Dr Shashi Jayakumar has dedicated his career to international security. He is the founder and executive director of SJK Geostrategic Advisory, a security and political risk consultancy. Prior to this,
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In a scathing critique that threatens to deepen political fissures within Ukraine’s wartime leadership, former president Petro Poroshenko has accused President Volodymyr Zelensky of authoritarian behavior, likening his actions to those of
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The chasm between the West and the Rest of the world has come to its apogee in these difficult days when US fighter jets fly above Isfahan and NATO countries suffer from
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Editor’s Note: The following article is part of our syndication with CIAGate, a group of volunteer investigative researchers dedicated to uncovering the deeper truths behind the operations of the U.S. intelligence apparatus.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has developed a clear model for exercising diplomacy. He begins by making demands of other nations, then calls for negotiations. If the negotiations do not take place or
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Editor’s Note: Annie White, Director of Software Tools at the Growth Lab, Harvard Kennedy School, and Sebastian Bustos, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development, Harvard University, recently presented their
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Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra amid escalating political unrest and fallout from a leaked audio recording, intensifying the country’s already fragile political landscape. The court accepted a
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By the end of the annual meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in The Hague in June 2025, it became clear that everything was about money. In fact, the final communiqué was
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