France’s latest wave of protests has exposed a widening divide between citizens demanding economic relief and better public services, and those who increasingly view violence as a legitimate means of confronting the
Oracle has emerged as the leading contender to provide Japan with top-secret cloud computing services, according to a Financial Times report citing multiple people familiar with discussions, as the United States intensifies
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Ukraine will be permitted to use part of a European Union defence loan to purchase Chinese drone components after securing a special exemption from procurement rules, according to a Financial Times report,
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The location of Iran’s 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 per cent has become one of the most significant unresolved issues in the ongoing dispute between the United States and Iran,
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The alleged kidnapping, rape and killing of an 11-year-old girl in eastern India has renewed national attention on the country’s continuing struggle to curb sexual violence, with activists, lawyers and officials pointing
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China’s economy expanded by 4.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2026, its slowest annual growth rate since late 2022, according to official data released on July 15, falling short of
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The sinking of an Iranian frigate in India’s backyard, closer to Sri Lanka’s southern coast, in early March this year, a few days after the eruption of war after the unprovoked Israeli-US
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The ship tracker in Kota Kinabalu, where I am — on the eastern edge of Malaysia — shows that 281 ships passed through the Malacca Strait on July 14, compared with 134
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A decade after an international tribunal rejected China’s sweeping claims in the South China Sea, the waters remain defined less by the 2016 legal ruling than by an expanding network of islands,
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France has made a “big deal” with Ukraine that includes billions of Euros in Ukrainian purchases of French systems and licenses to produce a number of weapons including SCALP/Storm Shadow, a long
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Summary: When people think of economic sanctions, they often imagine a mechanism targeting a specific government, specific assets, or a list of names. But the U.S. sanctions regime operates differently and in a
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My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. ‘Get out of there,’ she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria, at a European footvolley tournament. I had come to compete.
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“Justice is truth in action.” — Benjamin Disraeli Few principles are more sacred to a democratic republic than the supremacy of the rule of law. Governments may rise and fall. Political fortunes
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Tariff fights with Beijing. Arguments over NATO burden-sharing. Debates about whether the dollar can keep its throne as the world’s reserve currency. None of these are new problems. They’re the latest release
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When President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stood before parliament on 20 March and confirmed that his government had turned down two military requests in a single evening — one from Washington to land
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Yemen’s Houthi movement launched missiles toward Saudi Arabia after accusing the kingdom of carrying out airstrikes on an airport under its control, ending an informal four-year truce that had largely contained cross-border
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