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Washington and Beijing are each building rival technology coalitions — Pax Silica with 24 signatories and WAICO with 29 — that analysts say could fracture the global digital order along Cold War…
Houthi forces struck residential neighbourhoods and IDP camps in Yemen's Marib province on 7 August, killing two civilians and…
India and Kenya are quietly rewriting the rules of their relationship — moving from aid and scholarships to co-building digital…
A day after claiming 'hundreds' of casualties in Marib and Hadramout, Houthi forces struck again on Friday — hitting Yemen's…
The UAE has issued its strongest diplomatic rebuke yet as Houthis struck Saudi tankers in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea, hit…
A new India Narrative report makes a pointed case: India's Africa engagement — $93 billion in trade, $80 billion in investment,…
Pakistan holds the worst healthy diet unaffordability rate in South Asia — yet also has the region's cheapest nutritious food…
Pakistan's child protection NGO Sahil has documented 1,914 abuse cases in just six months of 2026 — over 1,000 of them sexual in…
Bangladesh lost 416 lives to road crashes in a single month — July 2025 — with motorcycles alone accounting for one in three…
