Wildfires ravage South Africa’s Western Cape, destroying homes

Would you compete for your country — if you had to deny its name to do it? Taiwan’s baristas are world champions. But Beijing has forced the World Coffee Championships to strip their national identity from the...

Beijing and Islamabad have just marked 75 years of diplomatic ties, with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif describing the relationship as “two souls, one heart.” But what does this mean for regional geopolitics —...

France has boarded a Russia-linked oil tanker in the Atlantic in a dramatic operation targeting Moscow’s sanctions‑evading “shadow fleet.” The seizure, carried out with support from the UK, is one of several recent...