Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal
The only clue the US President Donald Trump has given in his prime time televised speech on Wednesday at the White House regarding the ending of his war in Iran is that the core
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“We were the first city invaded on 22 September 1980 by Saddam’s army,” Dr Reza John Vedadi recalled of Khorramshahr, his birthplace, highlighting the formative impact of war and displacement on his
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The Taliban present their rule as grounded in Sharia. Nearly five years after returning to power, Afghanistan is governed less as an Islamic system and more as a centralized structure of authority
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Wars have a way of exposing illusions. Some collapse instantly; others linger, propped up by wishful thinking and selective analysis. The latest conflict in the Gulf does both. It reveals a Russia
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by Nil Krzysztof Drozdowski’s The Murder of Heinrich Himmler: How New Evidence Suggests Foul Play positions itself as both an intervention in one of the Second World War’s lingering enigmas and a
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Trump is infamous for his cavalier disregard for the truth. So, we, in South Korea, should inspect his words and claims critically. In fact, many of the claims in his recent 1
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President Donald Trump is preparing to send shockwaves through Washington and beyond with a budget proposal that dramatically reshapes the United States’ spending priorities, calling for an unprecedented surge in defense funding
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China’s political establishment has been shaken once again as President Xi Jinping expands his sweeping anti-corruption campaign, targeting another high-ranking member of the ruling Communist Party’s elite decision-making body. The investigation into
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On a bright Wednesday morning in Washington, Attorney General Pam Bondi walked alongside President Donald Trump down the sunlit steps of the White House, appearing relaxed and composed as the two prepared
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Sources from western Iran report that American forces have failed to recover the pilot of a downed F-35 fighter jet after a high-risk search operation near Iran’s borders. According to local correspondents
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Across the hillside capital of Caracas, a quiet transformation is underway. Murals of former presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro are being plastered over, billboards once emblazoned with their slogans removed, and
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As violence spreads from the Caribbean to Western Asia, the United States and Israel’s war of aggression against Iran is paralysing the global economy. Its consequences were predictable: it was known that if the United States
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I haven’t written for a while because I’ve been in Deep Springs. I returned after a week of being in a remote place far from the news… to see that we are
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The liberal economic module allows fair participation of countries in the international market; however, it also imposes certain restrictions, such as rebranding products to enforce intellectual property rights and fair play. For
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The current instability in the Middle East has again demonstrated the extent to which the modern world is interconnected especially in the energy security context. The most recent escalation in the Middle
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