High above Earth, some 22,000 miles into space, an unacknowledged encounter in 2022 revealed how rapidly outer space is being transformed into a new arena of military competition. An American patrol satellite
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Across the world today, youth energy is being squandered — not for lack of ideals, but for lack of direction. Instead of confronting entrenched injustice, too many young voices are being recruited
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The UK government on Thursday imposed sanctions on three smaller Russian oil producers—Tatneft PJSC, Russneft PJSC and NNK PJSC—as Western nations continue efforts to limit Russia’s energy revenues while a US-brokered peace
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European Union leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday for a high-stakes summit aimed at resolving disputes over whether to use frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine’s ongoing war effort. The summit, described
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BP has named Meg O’Neill, the head of Australia’s Woodside Energy, as its new chief executive officer, effective April 1, following the sudden departure of Murray Auchincloss. O’Neill becomes BP’s first CEO
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The European Union faces a pivotal moment as the intensifying rivalry between the United States and China creates a new era of global competition, according to a report led by former British
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Russia’s government has instructed Russian Railways to sell a 62-floor skyscraper in central Moscow to help the state-owned railway monopoly pay down part of its $50 billion debt, three sources told Reuters.
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The phrase with which the United Nations report on Sudan issued yesterday begins, “Three days of terror with no safe refuge”, is not merely descriptive but accusatory. It indicts not only the
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What began as an aggressive plan to confront Mexican drug cartels has transformed into a far-reaching and lethal military campaign in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific, driven in large part by
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The crisis in the modernisation of the Indian aviation industry is starkly reflected in the global context, where the inefficiencies of the Tejas programme and the continued reliance on outdated MiG-21 aircraft
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The terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025, was a harrowing act of violence that claimed 15 lives, including a child, and injured 42 others during a Hanukkah
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In his second term, United States (US) President Donald Trump has elevated rare earth elements (REEs) and critical minerals to a top strategic priority, comparable to semiconductors, due to their indispensable role
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In mid-November 2025, at a United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) conference in Saudi Arabia, Basher Abdullah, an adviser to Sudan’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, said, ‘First, we need to end the
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If everything you thought you knew about the War on Terror were nothing more than a mirage—an extravagant shadow-play staged by geopolitical puppeteers—would you really be surprised? After all, the last two decades have
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I am writing these words from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, on December 12, 2025, one day after María Corina Machado, the newly appointed Nobel Peace Prize winner, said at a press
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