The passage argues that Britain is gradually erasing its historical identity by replacing recognition of figures such as Churchill, Austen, Turner and Turing with symbols of a more multicultural and politically correct
Editor’s Note: The following column is based on excerpts from a speech delivered by Semih Lütfü Turgut, Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye to Sri Lanka, on the occasion of the National
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On the last day of October 2025, leaders from the 21 nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum will meet in the city of Gyeongju in the Republic of Korea (South
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A group of United Nations human rights experts has welcomed the adoption of the ASEAN Declaration on the Right to a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment, calling it a “historic step”
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Refined fuel exports from Russia have fallen to levels not seen since the start of the war, as a combination of refinery outages and Western sanctions disrupt the country’s energy trade. According
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Palantir Technologies Inc. has filed a lawsuit against two former senior artificial intelligence engineers, alleging that they misappropriated confidential documents and information to help launch a rival company, Percepta. The lawsuit, filed
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India says Indus water will be held back, stored, redirected, weaponized. They says “blood and water cannot flow together” a slogan first sharpened in 2016 and repeated again in 2025 by Prime
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BYD Co., the world’s largest electric-vehicle (EV) maker, reported a sharp decline in third-quarter profit as mounting domestic competition and heightened industry scrutiny weigh on its sales outlook. The Shenzhen-based automaker said
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Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, has announced a new initiative called Cocoon, a decentralized platform designed to transform AI computing. The project, officially named Confidential Compute Open Network, was revealed at
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Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is facing serious allegations of sexual misconduct from a former staff member, according to an exclusive investigation by Times UK. The
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U.S. President Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, citing rising strategic competition with Moscow and Beijing. The announcement came ahead of Trump’s scheduled meeting with Chinese President
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Washington has revoked the U.S. visa of Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel laureate, effectively barring him from entering the country, the author announced at a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday.
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Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is demanding a $1 million ransom for the release of six healthcare workers abducted in the city of Al-Fashir, according to the Sudan Doctors’ Network (SDN).
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by Our Correspondent in Seoul Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump began a high-stakes summit in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday, as investors and global observers looked for signs
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A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot dress has gone viral for her defiant resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a raid in lower Manhattan on October 21,
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Talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Istanbul (October 25-28), mediated by Qatar and Turkey, collapsed amidst strident rhetoric. Pakistan issued a 72-hour ultimatum “for Taliban to summon TTP Shura or we act unilaterally.” Taliban
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