Britain is accelerating the development of laser weapons designed to protect military installations and key national infrastructure from drone attacks, The Times has learned. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is investigating how
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John Ratcliffe, the former Texas congressman turned CIA director, has emerged as a central figure in Washington’s intelligence landscape, guiding the agency toward more aggressive covert operations. The recent high-profile raid to
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Monica Lewinsky, now 52, has spent nearly three decades redefining a life that was thrust into public scrutiny without her consent. As a 24-year-old White House intern in 1998, Lewinsky became a
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Pakistan is in the final stages of a $1.5-billion deal to supply weapons and aircraft to Sudan, Reuters reports, according to a former top Pakistani air force official and multiple sources familiar
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Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has limited the image generation functionality of its Grok chatbot on social media platform X to paying subscribers, following a surge of criticism over the tool’s use
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South Korea’s special prosecutor is expected to make a sentencing request for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection, Reuters reports, following a brief but controversial attempt to impose martial
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is reportedly considering calling a snap parliamentary election in the first half of February, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Friday, citing government sources. The early election would
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Hundreds of thousands of Filipino devotees flooded the streets of Manila on Friday to participate in the annual procession of the Black Nazarene, one of the world’s largest displays of Catholic faith.
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An Iranian-backed hacking operation that breached the phones and messaging accounts of senior Israeli political figures has exposed what security experts describe as an intelligence gold mine, raising alarm over the vulnerability
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Spanish judicial authorities have secured the arrest in Qatar of Said Aurelio Cabrera Abraham, a former Venezuelan military counterintelligence officer accused of orchestrating complex money-laundering schemes linked to Venezuela’s state oil company
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History has shown, repeatedly, that tyranny rarely arrives with spectacle. It does not announce itself with fanfare or force its way in overnight. It creeps in quietly—through decrees, enforced silence, and the
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The law has always advanced in uneasy tandem with technology, often trailing it, sometimes resisting it, but ultimately reshaping itself in response to what society chooses to deploy in the real world.
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Current developments in Venezuela may appear to be unfathomable—until one recalls the long history of imperialist interference in Latin America and the Caribbean. The events of the first week of January constitute
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Former CIA director William Burns, one of America’s most experienced diplomats, has delivered a pointed critique of recent US foreign policy, warning that emulating authoritarian tactics is “not a winning formula” and
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused counter-revolutionary forces of orchestrating violent unrest in Tehran and warned U.S. President Donald Trump to stay out of Iran’s affairs, following a night of disturbances
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