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January 9, 2026, 06:50 PM - 4 min read
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has restricted image generation and editing after a global backlash over sexualised deepfakes, prompting investigations and sharp criticism from governments and regulators worldwide.
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January 7, 2026, 03:45 PM - 8 min read
It’s also easy to argue it was a blatant and unashamed violation of international law. And it signals a further erosion of what is left of the rules-based international order.
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December 16, 2025, 01:28 PM - 8 min read
Ceasefires built on coercion or exhaustion inevitably fail because they do not resolve the conflict’s causes. Durable peace agreements require all sides to cooperate with international efforts to document war crimes and human rights violations, such as the United Nations’ Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine.
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November 21, 2025, 03:31 PM - 5 min read
All prime ministers are paranoid. Such paranoia comes from having to sit and smile around a cabinet table when you know that most of your colleagues hanker after your job. But Starmer is projecting something very different. His paranoia reflects a deeper awareness that a vacuum exists at the apex of British government, and at some point this weakness will lead to a challenge.
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October 3, 2025, 01:53 PM - 7 min read
Today, deportations are a staple of migration governance around the world. However, the recent expansion of detention and deportations reflects an accelerated criminalisation and punishment of non-citizens, tied to a rising authoritarianism across purportedly liberal Western countries.
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September 3, 2025, 08:54 PM - 4 min read
“I remember when the Prime Minister said that tax evasion is a criminal offence and should be treated as all other fraud. If he had a backbone, he would sack her,” Opposition Leader Kemi Badenoch said in the Commons.
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July 5, 2025, 04:56 PM - 2 min read
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said his personal relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump played a key role in helping Britain secure an exemption from a series of sweeping tariffs announced by Washington.
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June 30, 2025, 03:17 PM - 4 min read
When U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed a wave of tariffs in April, the move was widely dismissed as political overreach. It drew outrage from allies, dented his domestic standing, and spurred financial markets into disarray, forcing a pause just days later.
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June 12, 2025, 11:47 PM - 3 min read
UK PM Keir Starmer confirms a British team is aiding India’s probe into the Air India Flight 171 crash in Ahmedabad that killed over 200 people.
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May 24, 2025, 09:43 PM - 3 min read
Britain has signed a landmark agreement to transfer sovereignty over the disputed Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in a deal that London says secures the long-term future of a strategic U.S.-U.K. military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Indian Ocean archipelago.
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April 7, 2025, 08:07 PM - 2 min read
Criminal investigators in Kenya said on Monday they have concluded a probe into the death of a young mother in 2012 who was last seen alive in the company of British solders who were in the country for training.
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March 31, 2025, 04:34 PM - 3 min read
Issues pertaining to the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) and bilateral investment treaty between India and the UK are expected to figure during the three-day visit of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to London from April 8-10, official sources said.
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