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
Twelve months into Donald Trump’s second term, the United States president has already upended global diplomacy, strained domestic institutions and unsettled allies in ways few expected even after his turbulent first presidency.
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More than five years after convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell, his younger brother Mark has emerged as one of the most vocal figures rejecting
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping is escalating his long-running anti-corruption campaign, pressing the Communist Party’s discipline apparatus to act with greater intensity as Beijing prepares to roll out its next five-year economic plan.
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“The vain bhikku will yearn for recognition from others, yearn for leadership and authority in monasteries, yearn for honour among other families.” ~ The Buddha (Bāla Vagga – Dhammapada) A listener
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Pakistan has positioned its mineral economy for global capital by immediately launching an international outreach campaign aimed at making a major impact in the global investment arena through its mineral and gemstone
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Mohsen Sazegara misses the scent of jasmine, the mountains and valleys of his homeland. He fled Iran for the United States two decades ago and has never stopped longing to return. But
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Silicon Valley has always excelled at selling a future that feels just around the corner, but the current AI boom has intensified that talent into a near-religious belief in a coming “digital
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European Union leaders have issued a stark warning after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose escalating tariffs on European allies unless Washington is allowed to buy Greenland, describing the threat as
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Newly uncovered documents released by the National Security Archive expose how a little-known set of secret legal opinions authored in 1989 quietly rewrote the limits of U.S. presidential power. At the center
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History, when read without illusion, reveals a grim and recurring pattern: wherever the American deep state intrudes, devastation follows. Regime change is marketed as “democracy promotion,” intervention is wrapped in the language
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Editorial That was not the first time the world witnessed something that should symbolise humanity’s finest ideals being warped into political theatre, and yet what we saw yesterday — in another term
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They starch their spines with borrowed daylight and call it dignity,tongues varnished, knees rehearsed for velvet floors.Gravitas for hire, they auction grief in clipped syllables,while famine learns their signatures by heart.The microphone
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Northern Ireland’s chief constable, Jon Boutcher, has revealed he is reviewing the security classification of a long-suppressed MI5 file from 1973, raising the prospect that one of the most contentious documents of
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When U.S. immigration agents detained Rabbiatu Kuyateh in Maryland last July, the 58-year-old Sierra Leonean believed the law would protect her. An immigration judge agreed, granting her protection from deportation after she
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On 14 January, a few hours before the historic meeting in Washington between representatives from Greenland and Denmark and their U.S. counterparts, J. D. Vance and Marco Rubio, Denmark and several of
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