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
Migrant smuggling to Europe remains a lucrative illicit industry even as overall irregular migration has declined, exposing a persistent security challenge for European governments and a humanitarian danger for those attempting to
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On 20 August, during the 23rd edition of the Council of the Americas in Buenos Aires, Javier Milei concluded his speech to the business elite by blaming the ‘little green scarves’ and
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For more than three years, Manipur has offered India a warning it can no longer afford to treat as a peripheral crisis. The northeastern state bordering Myanmar has been fractured by violence
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Francis Fukuyama remains one of the most influential political theorists of the modern era, a reputation forged in 1989, months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, when his essay “The End
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There is very little information on CIA Director Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow. Even so, there is enough information to make some observations. One reason for Ratcliffe’s visit was to warn Moscow about
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Tariq Rahman’s India visit cancellation, ambiguity over BRICS, and hard push for Hasina’s extradition are nothing more than a simple domestic position-strengthening exercise that almost every Bangladesh Prime Minister from the BNP
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Andy Burnham’s political honeymoon is approaching its first serious test. After winning public support and helping the Labour Party recover in the polls since becoming prime minister in mid-July, Burnham is now
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The political fight over Islam in Spain is no longer confined to mosques, immigration or religious clothing. It has reached school canteens, border debates and the language of “national priority”, as political
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The United States is preparing to widen its sanctions campaign against Iran, targeting not only Tehran but the commercial networks that have allowed Iranian oil to keep reaching international markets despite years
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I’ve been all over the world and have seen both its good and sordid countries. One of the best run, most decent and honest nations I’ve seen is Canada. As George Bernard
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On New Year’s Eve 1989, as the Berlin Wall had fallen and reunification was becoming imaginable, photographer Maurice Weiß of the Ostkreuz agency captured a moment of extraordinary optimism at the Brandenburg
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Around 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from acute malnutrition, with the condition threatening the lives of one million of them, according to the UN children’s agency UNICEF. Tajudeen Oyewale, UNICEF’s
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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, have formally dissolved as an independent military force and completed their integration into Syria’s state institutions, marking a major change for one of the country’s
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President Donald Trump’s decision to order the Department of Defense to reduce joint military exercises with South Korea has unsettled one of Washington’s most important alliances in Asia, while his renewed engagement
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There are moments when the decline of a power can be measured in statistics, military setbacks or shifting alliances. And there are moments when something deeper seems to be happening — something
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