The death of Hashim Musa, a former Pakistan Army Special Services Group commando who joined Lashkar-e-Taiba after retiring from the military, raises uncomfortable questions about the movement of trained military personnel into
1. Manic “Change Round” In Sigmund Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” the melancholic is in want of an object, never knowing exactly what they may have lost. Melancholy transforms the object-loss of mourning into
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Saudi Arabia has temporarily shut its 1,200-kilometre East-West oil pipeline after a drone attack damaged the vital crude conduit, adding to mounting disruptions to energy flows across the Middle East as the
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Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published in The New Yorker two months after 9/11. The tragedy re-engineered the West while imposing a huge cost on the rest of the world. Twenty-five
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Diplomacy is usually conducted across polished tables. Increasingly, it is also conducted in the back seat of an armoured limousine. On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin closed
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It may be coincidence that, on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, bad news from the Arab world is once again dominating the headlines. But the latest
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Artificial intelligence has reached the heart of the Dutch government, with Prime Minister Rob Jetten emerging as one of its enthusiastic users. An investigation by De Volkskrant found that at least 232
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Princess Astrid of Norway has died at the age of 94, the Norwegian royal household announced on Friday, 11 September. “Princess Astrid has died,” the royal household said in a brief statement,
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In a fragrant garden near San Francisco, Hamid Hayat, 43, tells his story over a coldening frittata. He is a thin man in jeans, a T-shirt and a Dallas Cowboys cap. Almost
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Editorial Sri Lanka’s exclusion from meaningful participation in BRICS should be treated as a diplomatic failure, not disguised as another routine event in international affairs. A country that has moved closer to
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Anthropic said on Thursday that it had disrupted several allegedly malicious uses of its Claude artificial intelligence models over the past eight months, including a suspected Russia-linked cyber-espionage campaign and efforts by
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US President Donald Trump has rejected a reported request from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to launch US strikes against Yemen’s Houthi movement, as Washington seeks to contain the escalating conflict
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A documentary examining Israel’s use of artificial intelligence in military operations in Gaza received a 25-minute standing ovation at its premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, in what was described
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Three former leaders of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China have been sentenced to up to seven years and three months in prison under Hong
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The price of crude oil has risen to its highest level since May as renewed attacks in the Strait of Hormuz intensify concerns over energy supplies. A barrel of North Sea Brent
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it has blocked several attempts in recent months by researchers seeking to use its Claude software for the development of biological weapons. The company, a competitor to
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