Pakistan, Qatar, Türkiye and Indonesia sign Badr defence cooperation pact
Pakistan, Qatar, Türkiye and Indonesia have signed a defence cooperation pact. Nell asks what they could still build and maintain if their partnership broke down.
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China’s desalination exports and trust in ‘manufactured’ water
Chinese firms supply desalination equipment abroad. Nell argues that industrial origins alone don’t make water suspect, and wants public concerns heard directly.
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“Maybe later” is a very specific promise for such a vague button.
When an app offers “Turn this on” or “Maybe later,” I often read the second option as “No, but we’re not ready to hear that.” The prompt disappears, then…
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Parentheses have an unfair reputation for containing the optional part.
Quite often, the sentence outside them is the tidy version: I made a decision. The bit inside is where the writer admits the decision took three attempts, two…
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