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
In a wide-ranging conversation originally featured in El País, American historian and journalist Stephen Kinzer argues that Iran’s modern political trajectory cannot be understood without returning to one defining moment: the 1953
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The most consequential artificial intelligence trial of the decade ended not with a dramatic legal reckoning, but with a procedural collapse. Elon Musk’s high-profile case against OpenAI, the company he helped found,
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Political and foreign affairs commentator Mohan Samaranayake meticulously deals with the overthrowing of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022, in a manner that exposed the failure on the part of the then ruling
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The Yunus-led interim-cum-marionette regime, installed on 8 August 2024 following the unlawful ouster of Bangladesh’s most accomplished HPM Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024, is portrayed by its critics as the culmination
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International media described the Hambantota Port and Mattala Airport as a Chinese debt trap. In 2017, the Maithri-Ranil government leased the Hambantota Port to China. India opposed the government’s decision. However, the
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Drop Site News has published a document, claiming it to be the original cipher from March 7, 2022, obtained from a military source. The world now understands this to be irrefutable evidence.
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For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty stood as one of the few durable institutional arrangements between India and Pakistan. Signed in 1960 after extensive World Bank mediation, the agreement
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As Russian President Vladimir Putin begins his state visit to China from May 19 to 20, attention is once again turning to the strength and resilience of China–Russia relations at a time
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by Our Political Affairs Editor This so-called “declaration” emerging from the rhetoric of Mullivaikkal remembrance is not a roadmap for justice, nor a credible political programme for the future. It is, at
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China is increasingly positioning itself as a pivotal arena in global geopolitics, with Beijing emerging as a key destination for the world’s most powerful leaders. The upcoming visit of Vladimir Putin to
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The United States has suspended participation in a long-standing defence coordination forum with Canada, accusing its northern ally of failing to meet key military commitments and widening a gap between political assurances
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High-profile figures including Eric Schmidt face public rejection at US graduation ceremonies, exposing a widening generational rift over artificial intelligence, its promises, and its perceived threat to young people’s future. A series
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At a DIE ZEIT roundtable, three of Germany’s most prominent digital voices debate whether the dream of a “good internet” has already been lost—or whether regulation, innovation, and European sovereignty can still
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Amidst the prevailing course of geopolitics, allies are shifting, and agreements are being made for the vital national interest. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Netherlands is a segment of
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There is a moment in every great geopolitical confrontation when the outcome becomes structurally inevitable — long before anyone is willing to announce it. Rome understood this when Germanic tribes stopped retreating.
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