Nationalist leaders from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are set to hold talks in Cardiff on Monday over possible moves towards independence or separation from the United Kingdom. The meeting is the
(The Nobel Prize for Peace this year went to a person – María Corina Machado – who has called upon the US government to bomb her own country, Venezuela, and has supported
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“Without data, all that you have is an opinion.” …attributed to W. Edwards Deming ~ World Statistics Day falls on 20 October. This day, as the Secretary-General of the United Nations reminds
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy departed the White House on Friday without securing an agreement for the supply of Tomahawk long-range missiles to Ukraine. The meeting with US President Donald Trump followed weeks of signals
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US President Donald Trump revealed on Friday that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had offered “everything” to Washington in order to avert growing military pressure from the United States. Speaking to reporters during
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Standard & Poor’s (S&P) on Friday downgraded France’s sovereign credit rating from AA- to A+, citing expectations that public debt will rise faster than previously projected. The move, the third downgrade by
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Editor’s Note: The following article is based on excerpts from the paper published by the author, examining how elite brokers reshape sovereignty and territorial governance in the Indian Ocean region through mega-infrastructure
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Mon dieu! La France has run out of politicians. The Republic of this great democracy has hundreds of professional politicians. In fact, 577 in its National Assembly. Yet it can’t seem to
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Thirteen years after surviving a Taliban assassination attempt at the age of fifteen, Malala Yousafzai is speaking openly about the untold struggles behind her public image. In her forthcoming memoir, Finding My
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There is an unending debate all over the world about which is the best form of governance. Arguments abound in favor of communism, dictatorship, military rule, feudalism, and democracy. Yet, among thought
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The Galápagos Islands harbor some of the most unique ecosystems on the planet. Their isolated location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has allowed species to evolve independently from their relatives
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The latest US-Indian fracas over Russian oil has been rather odd with Trump attributing to PM Modi explicitly that India has terminated its imports of Russian oil. Why would Trump bluff? One possibility that
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Saudi Arabia is in advanced discussions with the Trump administration over a potential defence agreement that could mirror a recent U.S.-Qatar pact, committing Washington to regard any attack on the kingdom as
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Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy has publicly called on Elon Musk to partner with Russia to build an undersea tunnel connecting Alaska and Russia, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump floated the
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Global banks are scrambling to stake their claim in Taiwan’s rapidly expanding $8 trillion personal wealth market as the government eases regulatory restrictions to foster a domestic asset-management hub. According to Bloomberg,
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Mark Carney, former chair of Bloomberg LP from 2023 to 2025 and now Canada’s prime minister, sat down with Bloomberg for an extensive interview to discuss how he has adjusted to the
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