The world is on course to miss its 2030 target for ending extreme poverty, with 826 million people already affected. Experts warn that widening inequality, war, declining aid and political inaction are
Chinese artificial intelligence developers have drawn renewed attention after the release of two advanced open-source AI models, Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8, prompting fresh debate over whether lower-cost alternatives can challenge the
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The race to dominate artificial intelligence is reshaping not only the technology industry but also the balance sheets of some of the world’s largest corporations. Behind soaring investment in data centres, advanced
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Nearly four decades after the world embarked on one of the largest public health campaigns in history, the effort to eradicate polio has reached a decisive moment. Once seen as being on
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The United States has released a State Department report alleging decades of Cuban espionage and political influence operations inside the United States, a move that has prompted renewed scrutiny of Washington’s increasingly
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Iran-aligned Houthi forces said on Thursday they had struck two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea as part of what they described as a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, raising concerns
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Senior Chinese leader Wang Huning has called for stronger efforts to safeguard stability in Tibet, fully enforce China’s new ethnic unity law and further align Tibetan Buddhism with Communist Party priorities during
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The United States and Saudi Arabia have signed a landmark civil nuclear cooperation agreement that would allow the kingdom to build nuclear reactors using American technology while also permitting it to enrich
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The U.S. Department of Defense is on course to achieve its first clean financial audit by 2028 after new digital systems uncovered longstanding accounting errors that had distorted records across the military,
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When the 14th Dalai Lama turned ninety in July 2025, he finally said what Tibetans everywhere had been hoping to hear for years. In a formal statement from his home in Dharamshala,
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During the past few months, sealed correspondence has been exchanged between Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Legal Department of the U.S. State Department. Sources at the Foreign Ministry say
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The effectiveness of Iranian drone strikes against CIA facilities in the Gulf has prompted a new line of inquiry inside the United States intelligence community, with analysts examining whether Russia may have
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On 20 July, thousands of young people attempted to march from Jantar Mantar to Parliament. They carried placards, shouted slogans, and demanded the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over repeated
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When was the last time you wrote something by hand? Was it a stylus signature at a checkout stand, a kitchen calendar reminder, or a note jotted down on a scrap of
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The latest NATO summit underscored a strategic reality that the Alliance can no longer afford to ignore: European security cannot continue to rest disproportionately on American military power. For decades, successive U.S.
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The State Department’s 100-page report on Cuba’s “campaign of subversion against the United States,” along with Donald Trump’s assertion that “Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure,” lays the groundwork for
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