by Our Special Correspondent The 30 September incident aboard a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv has revived memories of decades of aircraft hijackings and placed renewed scrutiny on aviation security,
In an interview with El País, Scottish writer Douglas Stuart speaks about the subjects that have defined both his life and his fiction: poverty, fractured families, homosexuality, class and the enduring difficulty
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The US military says it has destroyed or disabled three Iranian oil tankers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), following what it described as missile attacks on two US Navy
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has received US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin for renewed talks on the war in Ukraine, with a three-day ceasefire announced
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The Pentagon has begun polygraph testing among senior military officials as it investigates how classified information about US ammunition stocks was leaked to journalists, according to US media reports. Around 50 members
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Across some of the world’s driest regions, strange barren circles known as “fairy circles” may be revealing something far more valuable than an unusual geological curiosity: naturally occurring hydrogen beneath the ground.
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The crisis in Tirah Valley, Khyber District, is ultimately a test of whether security can be transformed into sustainable civilian peace. For years, militancy, difficult terrain, and the region’s proximity to the
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Tripura’s latest road and rail blockade by surrendered insurgent groups highlights persistent gaps in the implementation of the September 4, 2024, tripartite peace accord and raises questions over the sustainability of the
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For nine months, the sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln have lived largely within the confines of a warship. This week, 5,000 American military personnel arrived in and around Pattaya, Thailand, as
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The US government has approved a planned $5 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, a major weapons deal that Washington says will strengthen the kingdom’s ability to respond to current and future
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The US trial of Lindsay Clancy, who admitted killing her three children, has ended without a verdict after jurors failed to agree on whether the 36-year-old was criminally responsible for the deaths.
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The double earthquake on June 24 and recent torrential rains in Caracas have reopened an old wound in Venezuela: the plight of families who have spent years waiting for state-provided housing while
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The People’s Palace Scene: The End of an Experiment and the Beginning of a Question On 25 August 2026, Mazloum Abdi announced from the People’s Palace in Damascus the end of the mission of
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Former Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera is emerging in internal political discussions as a possible common candidate for Sri Lanka’s next presidential election, according to
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Palestine is the current example of Stalin’s cynical observation. There, young, violent Israeli hoodlums – known as ‘settlers’ in western media – have been trying to terrorize Arab villagers into flight. It’s
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As President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepare for their next summit, an increasingly urgent question hangs over their rivalry: can the world’s two leading AI powers cooperate on the
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