The death of Hashim Musa, a former Pakistan Army Special Services Group commando who joined Lashkar-e-Taiba after retiring from the military, raises uncomfortable questions about the movement of trained military personnel into
India’s government has become a central focus of a bitter struggle over the future of Tata, the country’s largest conglomerate, as rival camps lobby senior officials over the leadership of its main
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Volkswagen chief executive Oliver Blume has secured stakeholder backing for his turnaround plan, but the German carmaker now faces difficult negotiations over job cuts and plant closures, alongside unresolved questions about its
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Cambodia is gathering evidence against suspected masterminds behind large-scale cyber fraud operations, the country’s anti-scam minister said, as critics question whether the government’s crackdown has reached the senior figures and networks responsible
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Mark Zuckerberg is betting that Meta’s next major artificial intelligence product will become a personal agent capable of handling much of everyday life online. Muse, unveiled at Meta’s developer conference in Menlo
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Ukraine has transferred two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea after they were taken prisoner while fighting for Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, prompting Seoul to express regret that the
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The Place de la Concorde, once the site of the guillotine that executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution, is being transformed this week for a very different event:
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Colombia has broken diplomatic relations with Iran, citing alleged links between the Islamic Republic’s government and international terrorist groups, human rights violations and concerns over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The decision was formally
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Melania Trump and China’s first lady Peng Liyuan spent 45 minutes touring the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington on Thursday, visiting Chinese artworks and the museum’s celebrated Peacock Room
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Chinese President Xi Jinping used his arrival ceremony at the White House to frame China-US relations around cooperation, stability and what he described as two national projects that can advance together: the
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Over the past two years, young people around the world have taken to the streets. From Kenya to Nepal, Indonesia to the Philippines, from Madagascar to Morocco, and in Peru, they rise
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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC China has increasingly relied on people outside formal diplomatic structures to communicate with the United States, using academics, business leaders, students, cultural organisations and even sport
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Donald Trump has signed a security agreement with Denmark and Greenland that significantly expands the United States’ military role on the strategically important Arctic island, while stopping short of his earlier calls
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For decades, a persistent German family narrative portrayed the aristocracy as a social class that had viewed Adolf Hitler with contempt and largely stood outside his dictatorship. Research examined by Der Spiegel
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The guillotine was designed to make execution faster and more efficient. But the experience of revolutionary Paris offers an unexpected analogy for the economic effects of artificial intelligence: greater efficiency does not
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US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have stressed cooperation and closer relations during a meeting at the White House, with both leaders describing their relationship in notably warm terms
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