Spanish companies spent an estimated €27 billion in 2025 replacing employees aged over 45 who had been dismissed the previous year, according to a study by human resources consultancy Talengo. The findings
“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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An investigation details how an ambitious Israeli strategy involving Kurdish militias, covert influence operations and former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad evolved into one of the most far-reaching regime-change plans ever contemplated before
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The rapid expansion of generative artificial intelligence tools is driving a sharp increase in sexually explicit deepfakes targeting women in India, according to a report by El País. The publication documented cases
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China has elevated household consumption to the centre of its long-term economic strategy by unveiling its first stand-alone five-year plan dedicated exclusively to boosting consumer spending. The blueprint sets a target of
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Japan is increasingly looking to lessons from Ukraine’s war with Russia as it reassesses its defense strategy, military technology and procurement systems amid growing concerns over the future security environment in the
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Nvidia has reduced by more than half the number of Asian customers authorised to purchase its artificial intelligence chips after introducing a new “white list” of approved buyers that have passed expanded
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A resignation letter from inside Alibaba’s workplace communication platform DingTalk has become a rare public reckoning over the pressures facing China’s technology workers, sparking debate about a corporate culture built around relentless
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Hitting more than 170 targets in Iran in 48 hours across two waves is an unprecedented escalation. The recent third wave of attacks, targeting more than 100 sites, has set the stage
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The European Parliament’s latest intervention on Pakistan raises a difficult question: when does legitimate human-rights scrutiny become an oversimplification of another country’s judicial process and when does it become political leverage? At
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On July 11, 2026, a school teacher, Shaukat Armani, was killed while two of his nephews sustained injuries following a suspected Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) quadcopter drone strike on his residence in the
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On June 26, 2026, Bangladesh’s Home Minister, Salahuddin Ahmed said the government was set to amend the law to equip officials of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) with modern firearms, to
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When the French Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Rémi Lambert, and the German Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Dr. Felix Neumann, travelled together to Jaffna, their visit became more than a routine diplomatic engagement
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