For decades, the islands of Kinmen and the Matsu archipelago have occupied a peculiar position in the geography of unresolved conflict — close enough to the Chinese mainland that their inhabitants can, on a clear day, see its coastline, yet…
The notice arrived without warning or formal explanation. Earlier this week, Belarus’s information ministry added Euronews to its “Republican List of Extremist Materials,” a designation that takes immediate legal effect under Belarusian civil procedure rules and carries consequences extending well…
A North Korean missile unit is being transferred to Russian territory, according to Ukrainian military intelligence, bringing with it an estimated 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers intended for use against Ukraine. The deployment, if confirmed, would represent a qualitative…
Gran Tierra Energy Inc, listed on the Toronto, London, and New York exchanges, announced in mid-2025 that it had agreed to divest its entire South American portfolio — comprising all Colombian and Ecuadorian assets — to French oil and gas…
What did SpaceX actually report? SpaceX posted a net loss of $541 million — nine cents per share — for the three months ending in June. That figure sounds large. It is large. But it arrived at roughly half the…
A Comeback Undermined Before It Could Begin Jack Draper broke down in tears during a changeover late in the third set of his defeat to Terence Atmane at the Montreal Masters 1000 tournament, in a scene that laid bare the…
A minister’s resignation rarely resolves the crisis that caused it. When Dharmendra Pradhan stepped down as India’s education minister last month following sustained street protests by Gen-Z demonstrators over repeated entrance examination paper leaks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi moved quickly…
On a quiet morning in a struggling Yorkshire shopping arcade, a twenty-week-old boy named Grayson finally received the polio and diphtheria jabs he should have had twelve weeks earlier. His mother, Lily, had not been swayed by anti-vaccine propaganda. She…
A network of people-smugglers is advertising routes out of the United Kingdom — concealing migrants in lorries crossing the Channel by ferry or train — to position them for Spain’s ongoing regularisation programme for undocumented residents. The operation, documented through…
Keith Allen was, by all public appearances, a pillar of Birmingham’s cultural life — a conductor, an educator, a man who ran more than a dozen school bands and orchestras across the city. In the 1990s he was known informally…