6+ hour, 58+ min ago   (691+ words) Sri Lanka’s president invokes China’s “generations of sacrifice” as he urges citizens to share the burden of rebuilding the country under his government. by Our Correspondent in Colombo President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has called on Sri Lankans to accept sacrifice…...

16+ hour, 25+ min ago   (913+ words) From Sierra Leone’s dangerous pits to London’s trading floors, the natural diamond industry is fighting its troubled past, shrinking supplies and the rise of synthetic stones Reverend Sam may be a man of God, but he did not get ahead…...

10+ hour, 3+ min ago   (563+ words) Exports face a five-to-seven-day stockpile window as damage to a vital Red Sea route deepens an already severe global supply crunch. Saudi Arabia could run out of oil stocks available for export if it does not restart its major east-west…...

9+ hour, 20+ min ago   (777+ words) Dhaka is deepening defence, trade and investment ties with Beijing while seeking greater strategic autonomy, forcing India to confront a more independent neighbour. Bangladesh is moving towards a more diversified foreign policy as its ties with China deepen, signalling Dhaka’s…...

20+ hour, 56+ min ago   (337+ words) The countries of the Global South have a particular interest in the success of this visit. President Xi Jinping’s forthcoming visit to the United States must be understood as more than an encounter between two heads of state, but it…...

16+ hour, 23+ min ago   (1071+ words) Saudi pipeline shutdown and Houthi gains raise fresh fears over the world’s most critical oil and shipping routes Saudi Arabia has shut down a critical oil pipeline after a drone attack by allies of Iran, opening a new and potentially…...

20+ hour, 30+ min ago   (214+ words) While the Arabs focused on trade, particularly in the Indian Ocean, Western Europeans focused not only on fishing but, in the off-season, on piracy, raiding and looting other nations. Prabir Purkayastha is the founding editor of Newsclick.in, a digital…...

19+ hour, 51+ min ago   (769+ words) Our imperial overreach began 25 years ago with the War on Terror. It is being brought to a grim conclusion by Donald Trump’s war on Iran. Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history,…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1482+ words) After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Erika Kirk appeared to embody a new, more forgiving face of the American right. A year later, she has largely disappeared from its stage as younger, more radical voices fight to inherit the movement....

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (413+ words) The capture of a strategic Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon has exposed the fragility of a U.S.-brokered regional ceasefire and complicated efforts to bring Washington and Tehran back to negotiations. Hezbollah and the IRGC refused. Their apparent calculation was that…...