Europe’s major rivers recorded exceptionally low flows this summer, disrupting freight transport and energy production as prolonged drought combined with repeated heatwaves. The Copernicus Climate Change Service says the average discharge of
China’s commercial space industry is no longer simply trying to put satellites into orbit. It is beginning to sell what comes after launch: complete systems, operational support, training and practical applications. A
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Less than a year ago, Texas Governor Greg Abbott was presenting his state as a destination for the technology industry. On November 14, 2025, the Republican governor described Texas as “the epicentre
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has sent Congress a constitutional reform proposal that would require candidates for the presidency, state governorships and the head of the Mexico City government to formally renounce any
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US President Donald Trump has escalated his confrontation with Canada by ordering the renaming of Lake Ontario as Lake America, turning a long-running trade dispute into a fresh diplomatic clash over one
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A rare visit to Beijing by a cross-party delegation of Japanese lawmakers has failed to produce an immediate breakthrough in strained China-Japan relations, after a senior Chinese Communist Party official reportedly told
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The war that resumed in Sudan in April 2023 has created the largest humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world, forcing more than 11 million people from their homes by June 2026.
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For Sliman Mansour (1947-2026), a gentle and generous painter of Palestinian emancipation. In January 1968, 470 delegates from seventy countries gathered in Cuba for the Cultural Congress of Havana. They arrived from
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The United States has removed Syria from its designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, granting the post-Assad government of Ahmed al-Sharaa another major vote of confidence as Washington seeks to consolidate
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An American intelligence chief would normally have every means at his disposal to travel to Moscow without being noticed. That is, after all, part of the job. John Ratcliffe, the CIA chief,
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The dispute over Gianni Infantino’s plans to bring private investors into future World Cup business has moved into a far more serious phase, with UEFA preparing the ground for potential criminal proceedings
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Editorial Ratko Mladić is dead at 84, having spent the final years of his life behind the walls of a United Nations detention facility in The Hague. His death closes the biological
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has formed an alliance with the leaders of Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden to oppose a major expansion of the European Union’s long-term budget, arguing that
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Vichy is known today for its thermal waters, cosmetics and distinctive hexagonal mint sweets, but the name remains inseparable from one of the darkest episodes in modern French history. On 10 July
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In Gori, a provincial Georgian city better known as the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, dozens of bullet marks remain visible on the façade of the town hall, physical scars from the fighting
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At a time when wars and humanitarian crises- from crimes in Gaza to the bitter tragedy like attacking Minab School- have reached unprecedented proportions and political mechanisms often fail to deliver peace,
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