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
Exclusive by Our Correspondent in Washington DC The United States has formally pressured Sri Lanka to immediately halt some of the most significant defence-related dealings with Russian entities, citing serious risks of
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This Ceasefire Will Not Hold – Because India and Pakistan Were Never Meant to Coexist: On May 16, 2025, India and Pakistan agreed – yet again – to a ceasefire along the Line of Control
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With President Trump’s efforts to end the Ukraine war, Europeans are now mainly responsible for prolonging it. Despite lame protestations of peace, Europe seems committed to fighting ‘to the last Ukrainian’. Unsustainable
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by Our Correspondent in Delhi The Supreme Court of India dismissed a plea by a Sri Lankan national with alleged ties to the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), asserting firmly
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Recently declassified documents from the John F. Kennedy assassination files have unveiled an extensive and long-standing collaboration between the CIA and the Mexican government, shedding new light on Cold War-era espionage in
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After the end of World War II, the U.S. employer class—the capitalists—faced overlapping threats, both domestic and foreign. On the domestic side, a coalition of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), two
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In early May, the security cabinet of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met and agreed that Israel would ‘capture’ Gaza and remove its Palestinian population ‘to protect it’. To achieve this policy
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On May 14, 2025, at least 10 suspected Kuki National Army-Burma (KNA-B) militants were killed in a gunfight with Assam Rifles in New Samtal village in Khengjoy tehsil (revenue unit) in the Chandel District
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On May 10, 2025, the Special Task Force (STF) arrested an operative of the transborder Islamist group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), identified as Abbas Uddin Mollah, from Pathra village in the Diamond Harbour
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Former President of Uruguay José Mujica, globally dubbed ‘the world’s poorest head of state,’ died this week after a long battle with cancer. But Mujica never accepted the label that turned him
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India has now proposed to send a delegation of Members of Parliament to selected countries abroad to explain its position regarding the recent conflict with Pakistan and to convince these countries of
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor The leaked Defence MoU between Sri Lanka and India, emerging during Narendra Modi’s recent official visit, is frightening — a glaring manifestation to the perilous immaturity of
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May 16 will stand out as a turning point, for good or bad, in the Ukraine conflict. The main thing is, Russia-Ukraine ‘peace talks’ have resumed in Istanbul and will hopefully carry forward the
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As Iran accelerates a sweeping campaign to deport undocumented Afghan migrants, fear and uncertainty are gripping families like that of Mohammed, a 41-year-old caretaker confined to a garden on Tehran’s outskirts. Too
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Each year, the anointed elite flew to Davos to witness Klaus Schwab’s pageantry—where lofty proclamations drowned out the unresolved crises of poverty, health emergencies, and food insecurity. They gathered in alpine luxury,
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