Japan to test rare-earth mining 6 km underwater
Japan said Friday it plans to conduct full-scale mining tests in February for rare earth minerals from a seabed near a remote Pacific island, after a...
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UN rights chief Volker Turk faces opposition to new term
United Nations Human Rights chief Volker Turk, an ?outspoken critic of Russia’s war in Ukraine and Israel’s conduct in Gaza, faces opposition from both countries...
11 killed in Ukraine as trade attacks
At least 11 people have been killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine, while Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s Kirov region killed six others, officials on both...
Canada inaugurates new bridge to US amid tariff tensions with Trump
Canada is set to mark the opening of a major new bridge linking the country with the United States, even as trade tensions with President...
Drones target northern Iraqi city
Drones carrying explosives targeted a city in northern Iraq on Friday where US forces are stationed. The attack took place hours after the American military...
US tariffs extremely disappointing:NZ
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon condemned new US tariffs on Friday as “extremely disappointing” after his and 59 other countries were slapped with fresh...
Israeli forces kill 4 Palestinians after settler dies in West Bank
Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinians in the village of Tell in the northern occupied West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, after...
Holy grail of economics
Some people may have watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade starring Harrison Ford as the eponymous swashbuckling archaeologist on a mission to find the...
Young guns
V.S. Naipaul’s India: A Million Mutinies Now observed a subcontinent fracturing into a myriad localised, raging particularities, each subcaste and interest group discovering its sectarian...
Energy bottlenecks are strangling industrial growth
BANGLADESH’S aspiration to become a competitive manufacturing hub rests on a simple but indispensable foundation: reliable energy. Yet the persistent delay in providing industrial gas...
