After being massively repudiated in Tuesday’s midterm election, Donald Trump has become a lame-duck president with significantly curtailed authority. What is likely to happen in the remaining two years until a new
Across Europe, young people are increasingly taking to the streets to demand change, confronting governments over everything from unaffordable housing and underfunded education to corruption, economic insecurity and a perceived lack of
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Sri Lanka’s opposition United National Party (UNP) has accused the government of failing to provide Thai Deputy Prime Minister Suphajee Suthumpun with appropriate diplomatic protocol and security during her visit to the
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The then German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the floodgates to refugees from underdeveloped and Muslim-majority countries, allowing them to enter Germany in the name of humanitarian policy. At that time, several well-meaning
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Indian security forces have foiled at least ten infiltration attempts along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir in 2026, killing nine terrorists in five incidents, according to partial SATP data.
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The Baloch Republican Guards (BRG) have sharply escalated their operations in 2026, with at least 23 security personnel killed in six BRG-linked incidents, according to partial SATP data. From deadly ambushes to
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China appears to be developing a second unusually configured vessel that could serve as a mothership for large underwater drones, adding to evidence of a potential effort to extend the country’s uncrewed
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro traded accusations of lying and corruption in their first presidential run-off debate on Sunday, exposing the bitter divisions shaping the
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A four-legged robot designed to move autonomously through agricultural land and analyse crops using artificial intelligence is being developed in Spain, with researchers aiming to give farmers more precise information about fruit
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Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years later, the 84-year-old Japanese survivor says the experience
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The article questions whether protests conducted under the banner of Gen Z genuinely represent the wider student community or serve the interests of politically motivated groups. It calls on democratic governments to
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Repeated negotiations have failed to bridge the divide between Pakistan’s security demands and the Taliban regime’s denials. With UN reports raising concerns over TTP activity, continued border violence threatening lives and trade,
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Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, danced to nationalist pop music beneath a computer-generated Israeli flag as he addressed a cheering crowd in Tel Aviv, celebrating his record in office and promising
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A nationwide analysis of 149 local authority areas reveals stark disparities in education, safety, mental health care and public services, with Middlesbrough ranked the hardest place to grow up.
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Ricky Handschumacher’s mother did not know her son was a hacker until the police came looking for him. She had worked as a nurse inside a Florida jail, where officers began asking
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China has established near-real-time satellite broadband communications between researchers in the Arctic and its Qinling research station in Antarctica, marking a significant advance in its efforts to develop an independently controlled communications
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