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 June 13, 2025, the Arakan Army reportedly seized and looted three Bangladeshi fishing boats at gunpoint near Naikhongdia (Bay of Bengal) in Myanmar, as they were returning from deep-sea fishing—taking away
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On June 21, 2025, two villagers – Samaiya, a former Maoist who surrendered earlier this year, and Veko Deva, a resident of Empur village – were abducted and subsequently killed by cadres
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Editor’s Note: The following remarks were shared by Trinh Nguyen, Senior Economist for Emerging Asia at Natixis, during her lecture titled ‘Navigating the Uncertainty.’ The event was organised as part of the
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Singapore — Sri Lanka’s fragile post-bankruptcy recovery demands bold leadership, institutional reform, and urgent economic diversification, according to insights shared during a high-level trade policy session in Singapore. The remarks came during
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Nicaraguans will fill the streets later this month to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. On July 19, 1979, the Somoza dictatorship finally fell, ending 18 years of guerilla fighting
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The court investigating Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on corruption charges has postponed his upcoming cross-examination due to ongoing hostage negotiations with Hamas, The Times UK reports. Netanyahu was scheduled to testify
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The Middle East, a region scarred by decades of conflict, is once again teetering on the brink of catastrophe. As Gaza crumbles under Israeli bombardment and Iran faces escalating threats, US complicity
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For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit ~ Noam Chomsky Introduction: A Crisis of Vision in a Hyperconnected Age We are living in a paradox, at no point in history
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After the Pahalgam attack, the entire world was condemning the terrorist violence and urging India and Pakistan to de-escalate tensions in the interest of peace and stability. But the main regional body
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Editorial Over the past decade and more, attacks on churches and tourist sites have become a grim and repeated feature in several parts of the world. From the coordinated bombings in Colombo,
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President Donald Trump once again pushed his case for a Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, hosting a truce ceremony between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda at the White House. The
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President Donald Trump has abruptly terminated all trade negotiations with Canada, citing the country’s imposition of a digital services tax on American technology companies as the primary reason. Trump described the tax
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In a landmark 6–3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a major legal victory to President Donald Trump, ruling that lower federal courts lack the authority to impose nationwide injunctions on presidential
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As the 12-day war ends in the Middle East, it is abundantly clear that the conflict erupted almost entirely due to Israel’s plan to undermine the US-Iran talks. Israel feared that fundamentally,
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As I expected last week, on Saturday evening the United States bombed Iran’s most fortified enrichment site at Fordow along with the Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities, officially becoming a co-combatant in Israel’s
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