Gardiner Harris, a former pharmaceutical industry reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, has accused Johnson & Johnson (J&J) of a pattern of misconduct spanning decades, arguing that
Repressive government actions that restrict citizen behaviour undermine political legitimacy and fuel anti-government sentiment, as history has repeatedly demonstrated, the Soviet Union being a case in point. Rather than quelling dissent, repression
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. — attributed to Niels Bohr It has been my custom, bordering on a private ritual, to begin each calendar year with The World Ahead of The Economist and
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On December 18, 2025, the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of the Inqilab Mancha and a prospective candidate for the upcoming 13th National Parliamentary Election, triggered a rapid escalation of protests
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow would consider refraining from deep strikes on Ukraine on the day the country holds a presidential election, provided that millions of Ukrainians currently
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Germany’s government is considering a major expansion of powers for its foreign intelligence service that would allow it to carry out sabotage, cyberattacks and other offensive operations overseas, according to a report
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The international security environment entering 2026 is marked by an intensity, breadth, and complexity of conflict risks unseen since the end of the Second World War. According to the Center for Preventive
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In jubilation, when news reached him from Lima that arch-conservative candidate José Antonio Kast had emerged victorious in Chile’s presidential election, Argentina’s right wing president Javier Milei posted a map of South
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The United States military carried out a large-scale assault on Islamic State positions across Syria on Friday, striking more than 70 targets in what officials described as a direct response to a
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Editor’s note: The following essay is based on a speech delivered recently by Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland, at the Bank of Finland’s biannual lunch for EU Heads of
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India’s control over the hydropower resources in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) represents a key component of its broader strategy to economically dominate and politically subjugate the region. With
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Ninety years ago, on 18 December 1935, a handful of young people came together to establish the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). Leslie Goonewardena, General Secretary of
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Bangladesh’s political future has become increasingly uncertain since the outbreak of protests in June 2024 against reservation policies favoring descendants of freedom fighters. What began as a student-led agitation has since evolved
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Businessman Murtaza Lakhani has strongly denied allegations underpinning recent sanctions imposed on him by the European Union and the United Kingdom, describing the measures as “unfounded, unfair and politically motivated.” In a
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The disappointment felt by many left-wing supporters in Latin America has been renewed with the recent democratic victory of the far right in Chile. This sentiment is particularly poignant as it reflects
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