Nippon Steel plans to invest about $3bn in a major modernisation of U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley works in Pennsylvania, making the facility the largest target of its planned investment in the United
Sixty-five years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, newly declassified documents have shed stark new light on one of the most consequential intelligence failures of the Cold War, revealing how close
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The United States has moved to the verge of becoming a net crude oil exporter for the first time since World War Two after a sharp surge in shipments fueled by global
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The conventional wisdom was that a destabilizing war in the oil-producing heart of the Middle East would badly hurt China, the world’s leading oil importer, and its sputtering economy. It hasn’t worked
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China has launched its largest artificial intelligence computing cluster dedicated to scientific research, marking a significant leap in its push for technological self-reliance. The system, which entered full operation on Tuesday, has
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The King is set to confront growing “challenges” in the US–UK relationship during a closely managed state visit to Washington, in which he will meet President Donald Trump for private talks inside
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The ambitious and promising-looking talks between the US and Iran, especially those in Pakistan, were billed as the “Islamabad talks” or an “accord” that had not even lasted for twenty-four hours, leading
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The War of the World It is spring 2026. Since February 28, Iran has faced what Washington calls Operation Epic Fury and Tel Aviv Operation Roaring Lion. An American-Israeli military coalition
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The two-week ceasefire between the United States, Iran and Israel, announced by Donald Trump just hours before a self-imposed escalation deadline, has paused a 39-day conflict that had moved with unusual speed
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There is growing expectation in Tehran that the Islamabad talks with the US may open the door leading into the rose-garden. But footfalls still echo in the memory, as the US has
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At 4:52 yesterday afternoon, the President of the United States stopped in front of the waiting press pool for less than four minutes to take questions from reporters already lined up to
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The United States and Australia have announced plans to provide up to $600 million in financial backing for a major rare earths refinery project, marking one of the most concrete steps yet
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Iran has emerged from five weeks of intense US and Israeli bombing with much of the core infrastructure needed for a nuclear weapon still intact, according to officials and experts cited in
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by Nil What, exactly, does it mean to topple a statue and then argue about its meaning? “Yeah, he’s the founder of the country, but 300 slaves is a lot of slaves”
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The splashdown of a US space capsule into the Pacific, parachutes unfolding as engineers cheered another apparent triumph, was widely presented in the United States as a symbolic victory in the renewed
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by Our Correspondent in Islamabad High-stakes negotiations between Iran and the United States in Islamabad have ended in a dramatic breakdown, with no agreement reached after extended discussions. The talks, which were
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