Sanae Takaichi is on track to make history as Japan’s first female prime minister after being elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Saturday. The victory positions her to
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Americans’ confidence in the mass media has sunk to unprecedented levels, with fewer than three in ten now trusting news outlets to report fairly, according to a Gallup poll released this week.
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Germany must embrace difficult and potentially unpopular reforms to navigate the “difficult time” the country is facing, Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned on Friday. Speaking at a public event in Saarbruecken marking 35
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by Eric Retired from the Sri Lanka Navy, Rear Admiral Rathnayake’s work is immediately distinguished by its rare integration of operational experience, academic rigour, and a profound understanding of regional geopolitics, particularly
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Last year, as Nato prepared to mark its 75th anniversary, the alliance’s defence college in Rome published an anthology of science fiction imagining its future in 2099, including scenarios of rogue artificial
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In the heart of downtown Johannesburg, taps have been dry for three months, factory machines sit idle, and broken lavatories leave workers with no choice but to rely on costly trucked-in water.
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Pakistan has floated an ambitious proposal to the United States to build and operate a port on the Arabian Sea at Pasni, a seaside town just 70 miles from Gwadar and 100
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Hamas has announced that it will release all Israeli hostages captured during its October 2023 attack, marking the first time the militant group has indicated readiness to comply with a major component
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Dame Sarah Mullally, the current Bishop of London, has been named the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to hold the Church of England’s most senior clerical office. King Charles
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor Nothing but a traitor would step on his own national flag. That single, shocking image from Friday night — a boot pressed upon the crimson crescent and
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On October 1, 2025, during the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, a critical side event titled “Indo-Mediterranean: Women and Children Are Extremism’s First Victims” exposed the escalating human
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On 23 September 2025, US President Donald Trump delivered a dramatic address, explicitly threatening those allegedly involved in drug trafficking to the United States with being blown “out of existence”. This statement,
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On the morning of October 2, 2025, as worshippers gathered for Yom Kippur services – the holiest day in the Jewish calendar – a terrorist attack unfolded outside the Heaton Park Hebrew
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