There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot ...

The journalist and historian Paulo Antonio Paranaguá uses images from the turbulent continent to weave a history of the region, covering colonisation, slavery and dictatorship ...

On January 16, 1979, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi boarded a plane and left Iran. Officially, it was a “temporary” departure; in ...

Conventional wisdom tells us that the primary motivation of Trump's Venezuelan operation was to secure American access or control over the nation’s oil. Oil is a major factor — but it’s actually ...

Ahead of the World Economic Forum, business and political leaders fear geo-economic confrontation will be the biggest crisis ...

But the killings on the streets of Iran will not bring stability; they will only bring more division and more hatred. By ...

ISLAMABAD: Geo-economic confrontation has emerged as the world’s most pressing risk for 2026, according to the Global Risks Report 2026 released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Jan. 9 The Washington Post on national nutrition guidelines The Trump administration has flipped the national food pyramid as part ...

Between 2022 and 2024, 252 women died during or shortly after pregnancy, with maternal deaths rising by 20%, says MBRRACE-UK.

ISLAMABAD: The World Economic Forum (WEF) finds geo-economic confrontation as the top risk for 2026, followed by interstate conflict, extreme weather, societal polarisation, and misinformation and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP leadership have been most pro-active in recent years in projecting Swami Vivekananda as Hindutva icon of the RSS variety without understanding the teachings of ...