Image — Delegates visiting the Great Britain and Northern Ireland exhibit at the 2023 FOODEX Japan international food and beverage exhibition in Tokyo. Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images.

As digital systems become the backbone of modern society, who builds them - and for whom - has never mattered more. This panel brings together technologists, policymakers, and civil society leaders to ...

China’s forthcoming new strategy wants to make innovation the engine of economic growth – but can it pay the bill without leaving ordinary households and the young unemployed behind, asks Yu Jie.

From AI and electric vehicles to robotics and pharmaceuticals, Beijing is driving a low-cost technology revolution with price tags that crush global competitors. But as Europe and the US scramble to ...

Weapons underpin the group’s alliance with Tehran and its political power in Lebanon. Any new US–Iran nuclear deal must require Tehran to compel Hezbollah to disarm.

President Trump’s threats towards Greenland and rumoured American mineral deals with Russia mean NATO allies can no longer rely on the US in the High North. Britain could help fill the military gap, ...

Photographer Tommy Trenchard tells Iona Allan about his journey along the 800-mile Lobito Railway and how a multi billion-dollar investment by US and American interests is heating up a global race to ...

Hasina’s conviction, and a referendum on a roadmap of reforms, could open the door to a new multipolar role for Bangladesh.

The basic conflict of interest between Russia and the West means that the West must either invest heavily and for the long term in deterring Russia or abandon the front-line states together with the ...

On Monday night, images circulated of Abdelghani al-Kikli, a powerful armed group commander from Tripoli, lying dead. Kikli, known popularly as ‘Ghneiwa’, had travelled to the Tekbali military camp on ...

Since the Abraham Accords were signed by Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain in September 2020, relations between Israel and the UAE have evolved quickly. Normalization of Israel–UAE ...

The fall of Assad’s regime is an opportunity for Western powers to right some of their wrongs in Syria and restore faith in the international rules-based system. But this is, and must be, Syria’s ...