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Rice is a global staple and keeping the price low means “less people go to bed hungry”, said Al Jazeera. However, a controversial decision by the Indian government could upend this notion, and create chaos across the world. 

Mark Rutte, the longest-serving Dutch prime minister in history, is to stand down after 13 years in power.

China’s economy is teetering on the brink of a deflation crisis as its recovery from the pandemic stalls.

Nato members are set to approve the most comprehensive shake-up of the alliance’s defence plans since the end of the Cold War.

Radical parties of the left are facing an existential crisis amid a wave of election defeats that has seen populist nationalists sweep to power across Europe.

Joe Biden has snubbed Britain and threatened the special relationship between the US and UK by blocking Ben Wallace’s bid to become Nato secretary-general, government sources claim.

Amid prime minister Narendra Modi’s four-day state visit to the US, most of the western media was riveted on his journey from being prohibited from visiting the country for almost 10 years for “severe violations of religious freedom” to US president Joe Biden rolling out the red carpet for him…

The allure of the texture was the main point of contention

The UK newspaper published a poetic tribute to the Irish staple

Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive against Russian forces aimed at retaking swathes of territory captured since the war began last February appears to be ramping up, with results so far decidedly mixed.

Ten foreign journalists working with publications based in European and Western countries have given up their membership of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) South Asia, in wake of its president S Venkat Narayan’s three-day Myanmar visit. Narayan was in the Southeast Asian country from June 6 to June 9 to…