Imagine standing on the frozen edge of the world, where the wind slices like a blade and the ice stretches endlessly toward a horizon that seems to touch another planet. Beneath your boots lies not just snow and ancient ice,…
With the presidential election just weeks away on 31 May, Colombia finds itself confronting a sharp deterioration in security that has thrust the failures of the past four years into the spotlight. While the government’s “total peace” strategy promised dialogue…
A series of explosive and drone strikes in Colombia’s volatile southwestern departments has left at least 21 people dead and deepened fears over public security as the country approaches a pivotal presidential election on 31 May. The deadliest incident took…
India and New Zealand signed a comprehensive free trade agreement in New Delhi on Monday, delivering duty-free access for 100 per cent of Indian exports to New Zealand while granting New Zealand exporters preferential treatment covering 95 per cent of…
By the time the first champagne flutes hit the carpet at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night, Cole Tomas Allen was already on the floor, shirtless and handcuffed, his face pressed against the marble just metres from the magnetometers that…
Donald Trump has cast the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as further proof that “they can’t stop me”, in a series of robust statements to reporters and on social media following Saturday night’s incident at the Washington…
Donald Trump has spent half a century turning setbacks into spectacles. From brash Manhattan developer to reality-TV ringmaster to twice-elected president, his career has been a masterclass in branding resilience. Yet the past three years have added a darker chapter:…
“He is ready to rumble,” declared Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, on the red carpet outside the Washington Hilton on April 25th. “This speech tonight will be classic Donald J. Trump. It will be funny. It will be…
A gunman armed with a shotgun, a handgun and several knives stormed a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night, triggering gunfire that sent President Donald Trump and hundreds of guests diving for cover before…
Islamist militants linked to al-Qaida and Tuareg separatists carried out one of the largest coordinated assaults in Mali in more than a decade on Saturday, striking the capital Bamako, its international airport, a key military base and several cities across…
The latest wave of coordinated militant attacks across Mali has laid bare the depth of a crisis that has been building for more than a decade — one shaped not only by insurgency but also by shifting geopolitical alliances, economic…
Donald Trump’s fondness for social media has once again tested the patience of America’s friends. On this occasion, it was India’s turn to take offence. The president reposted remarks by Michael Savage, a bombastic American radio host, in which the…
President Donald Trump has ordered the United States Navy to “shoot and kill” any small vessels seen laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, sharply escalating a months‑long standoff in one of the world’s most critical maritime corridors. In a…
The confrontation between Tehran and Washington has entered a precarious new phase, one unfolding not in the skies or on battlefields but along the narrow maritime corridor through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s traded oil passes. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard…
With a fragile ceasefire in the West Asia conflict hanging by a thread and US negotiators preparing for another round of talks with Iran in Pakistan, President Donald Trump’s approach to the region is under intense scrutiny from the American…
They were supposed to be miracle injections: weekly shots that could tame type 2 diabetes and melt away stubborn kilograms with remarkable ease. But for growing numbers of patients around the world, the promise of Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound…
They were supposed to be miracle injections: weekly shots that could tame type 2 diabetes and melt away stubborn kilograms with remarkable ease. But for growing numbers of patients around the world, the promise of Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound…
Just 24 hours after briefly declaring the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial traffic, Iran has reversed course again, fully reimposing restrictions and firing on vessels attempting to transit the waterway. On April 18th, Iranian Revolutionary Guard gunboats fired warning…
The Strait of Hormuz, a channel barely three kilometres wide at its narrowest point, has once again demonstrated its power to unsettle the global economy. On April 18th, Iranian gunboats fired on a tanker in the waterway, and Tehran announced…
Two days after the collapse of direct negotiations between the United States and Iran in Islamabad, President Donald Trump held a nearly 40-minute telephone conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14. The call, the third between the…
