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A drone view shows Thai soldiers and riot police officers confronting Cambodian people in a disputed village along the Thailand-Cambodia border in Sa Kaeo province, Thailand, September 17. Photo: Reuters via Royal Thai Army

From a leaked phone call to airstrikes: What sparked the deadly Thailand–Cambodia border clashes

The clashes began on 24 July 2025, following months of escalating tensions and political friction

Microsoft has ened Windows 10 support after ten years. Photo: Collected

Your Windows 10 is about to lose support. What now?

Miners are seen at the Bayan Obo mine containing rare earth minerals, in Inner Mongolia, China July 16, 2011. Picture taken July 16, 2011. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer/CHINA OUT/File Photo

How China's rare earth dominance became a geopolitical flashpoint

An employee of the Norwegian Nobel Institute holds a replica of a Nobel Peace Medal in the Institute in Oslo, Norway, September 9, 2025. Photo: Reuters.

Nobel Prizes 2025: The winners, their discoveries, and why Trump dominated the headlines

Tear gas rises during a standoff with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal officers in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, US, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

'Fear enforcement, not law enforcement': Why Chicago is protesting Trump’s ICE raids

Supporters of the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), an alliance of Kashmir civil rights groups, chant slogans as they gather to attend the funeral of men who were killed during a protest following a shutter-down strike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Pakistan October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Naseer ud Din

Explainer: What happened in Pakistan-administered Kashmir after days of anti-government protests?

Jimmy Carter

Carter, Civiletti, and the birth of the shutdown: America’s political gridlock explained

A firefighter vehicle is seen in Bagram US air base, after American troops vacated it, in Parwan province, Afghanistan 5 July 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

Explainer: Why Trump is demanding Taliban to hand back Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase years after agreeing to leave it

From the left, Hinduja brothers Prakash, Gopichand and Ashok are laying the ground work for the conglomerate for the next century. Photo: KT Watson

Who are the billionaire Indian Hinduja family who are accused of human trafficking?

TBS Explainer: How the Taliban took over Afghanistan

TBS Explainer: How the Taliban took over Afghanistan

TBS Explainer: Why is the export income of RMG sector low?

TBS Explainer: Why is the export income of RMG sector low?

TBS Explainer: Why do bats fly at night?

TBS Explainer: Why do bats fly at night?

TBS Explainer: Why is sea-water salty?

TBS Explainer: Why is sea-water salty?