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
NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte is preparing to press Europe’s leading defence manufacturers to significantly increase investment and accelerate weapons production, according to a report by the Financial Times. The initiative comes as
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The conviction of Jashanpreet Singh, founder of California’s “Punjabi Devils Motorcycle Club”, on May 12, 2026, has drawn renewed attention to the growing involvement of Punjabi-origin gangs in organised crime in North
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On May 14, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) searched 14 locations across Delhi, Gujarat, Indore, and Srinagar in a FEMA case involving alleged overseas routing of funds collected through online gaming platforms. A
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Europe is confronting a rapidly evolving security threat in which hostile states are increasingly relying on tactics once associated primarily with terrorist organizations and organized crime. According to analysis published by The
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Mali’s military government is facing one of the most serious security crises since seizing power, as coordinated offensives by al-Qaeda-linked militants and Tuareg separatists expose the growing fragility of the junta’s reliance
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The United States and Bangladesh are moving forward with a series of defence and trade agreements that are expected to significantly expand Washington’s military and strategic footprint in the Bay of Bengal.
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Since the start of 2026, a remote mining region in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has become the focus of mounting international concern after at least four reported landslides struck
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Narratives in international diplomacy are best formed through an organic process as the variables in any given situation get played out in the fulness of time and a ‘new normal’ accrues as
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In Sudan, hunger has become a silent weapon of war, tightening its grip on the youngest and most vulnerable as the country descends deeper into one of the world’s most severe humanitarian
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Cuba is not merely experiencing a crisis. It is living through the slow unravelling of a political project that once promised dignity through equality and sovereignty through
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The United States is confronting a far more entrenched rare earth dependency problem than its recent political rhetoric suggests. Over the past year, President Donald Trump has pushed an aggressive agenda aimed
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“Breaking news is constant these days. What is this breaking news? Some MPs support him. This minister supports him. But these are the same people who supported others before. G.L. Peiris stood
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When Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te quietly stepped off a borrowed royal jet in the southern African kingdom of Eswatini earlier this month, he completed one of the most daring diplomatic journeys in
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An unusually large and heavily layered motorcade escorting President Donald Trump through Beijing during his recent state visit to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping has drawn significant attention from observers, particularly due
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In the summer of 1894, a young Mohandas Gandhi stood before the Natal Assembly in South Africa to protest a law designed to strip Indians of their voting rights through procedural sleight
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