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Trump to meet with US negotiators to decide on Iran’s ceasefire proposal
US president says it’s a ‘solid 50/50’ on either making a ‘good’ deal with Iran or striking the country anew…
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Oken Jeet Sandham’s ‘The Naga Talks’ launched in Kohima
KOHIMA, 15 May: Veteran journalist Oken Jeet Sandham’s sixth book, The Naga Talks: Deadline, Deadlocks and the Search for a…
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Indonesian rescuers retrieve body from Mount Dukono as search continues
Woman recovered after volcanic eruption on remote island, while operation to find two missing Singaporeans goes on Associated Press in…
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As Ukraine seeks to edge China out of its drone supply chain, Taiwan emerges as a quiet player
Taiwan’s reputation for tech excellence means it is a favoured alternative source for Ukrainian drone-makers Alicia Chen and Yu-chen Li…
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Hormuz crisis strangling global economy, Guterres warns, demanding solutions to end stalemate
The escalating crisis in the Strait of Hormuz could push tens of millions into poverty, trigger a surge in global…
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China warns US about Taiwan ahead of Trump’s visit to Beijing
Beijing urges Washington to ‘make the right choices’ on Taiwan to maintain ‘stability’ between the two powers Agency France-Presse China’s…
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I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human
As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move Wendy Liu Long before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way. It was the mid-2000s, and I…
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The World Cannot Afford to Look Away
The Strait of Hormuz crisis is not a regional conflict. It is a civilisational emergency. EDITORIAL: Sixty-two days ago, when the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran and killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the world held its breath. Today, it is beginning to choke. The Strait of Hormuz — that narrow, twenty-one-mile passage…
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| The World Cannot Afford to Look Away The Strait of Hormuz crisis is not a regional conflict. It is a civilisational emergency. May 1, 2026 |
| Sixty-two days ago, when the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran and killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the world held its breath. Today, it is beginning to choke. The Strait of Hormuz — that narrow, twenty-one-mile passage through which a quarter of the world’s seaborne oil and a fifth of its liquefied natural gas once flowed freely — has been effectively closed since 28 February 2026. What began as a military confrontation in the Persian Gulf has metastasised into a global humanitarian and economic emergency of the first order. On Thursday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered a warning that every government on earth should be compelled to hear. Ship transits through the Strait have collapsed by over ninety percent. Brent crude hovers at $118 per barrel. And if disruptions continue only through midyear — not even through the end of the year — thirty-two million people will be pushed into poverty and forty-five million more will face extreme hunger. In the worst-case scenario, where severe disruptions persist through December, the Secretary-General spoke of something no living generation has witnessed on this scale: a full global recession, with inflation exceeding six percent and growth plummeting to two. His message was three sentences long, and they deserve to be repeated: “Open the Strait. Let all ships pass. Let the global economy breathe again.” READ FULL |
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