Today, the Indian Ocean is facing a fresh wave of great-power competition. Under the guise of economic incentives and investment, these powers seek to draw small and medium-sized sovereign littoral states(SMLS) into asymmetric alliances. The continuation of this trend risks reproducing the costly security
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The United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake chaired a meeting recently for a discussion on strengthening preparedness and response to El Nino conditions. Many relevant government ministers and government officials participated in this discussion. This
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“Chabad wants to play a two-faced game, backing Israel’s most fanatic settlers on annexation but maintaining its non-political Jewish outreach image and funding…” ~
by Luxman Aravind Sri Lanka’s latest controversy over Chabad Houses has become something far more revealing than a dispute over a religious centre in
Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, has reached a position few would have predicted for a country long defined by isolation and international sanctions. Donald Trump wants to meet him again, Vladimir Putin needs him to sustain Russia’s war in Ukraine, and Xi
An August 1931 encounter in Rome left Heinrich Brüning, Germany’s chancellor, visibly
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The Panama Canal has long been one of the world’s most important
In 1991 President George H.W. Bush announced unilateral, sweeping reductions in U.S. tactical nuclear forces. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was supposed to take parallel steps, but he hardly got the chance as the Soviet Union disintegrated. Now, 35 years later, the Pentagon is nervous that Russia might
Julián Casanova has spent much of his career examining the violence that shaped modern Europe, from the Russian Revolution and anarchism to the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Now, as the historian prepares to retire from the University of Zaragoza,
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A Chinese humanoid robot has run 100 metres in 9.39 seconds, beating
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On August 19, 2026, a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist, Abdullah, was killed during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Bajaur District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). On August 17, 2026, five Fitna-al-Khawarij (FaK, a state
More On August 16, 2026, Juel Bhuiyan, 26, a suspected associate of the Neo-Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (Neo-JMB) operative Nazmul Hasan Mamun, alias Bomaru Mamun, was arrested at Demra in Dhaka, in possession of two handmade
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Today, the Indian Ocean is facing a fresh wave of great-power competition. Under the guise of economic incentives and investment, these powers seek to draw small and medium-sized sovereign littoral states(SMLS) into
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In 1991 President George H.W. Bush announced unilateral, sweeping reductions in U.S. tactical nuclear forces. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was supposed to take parallel steps, but he hardly got the chance as the Soviet Union
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More The United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in February of this year. For six months, US missiles and bombs have fallen upon civilian and military targets inside
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The Airport as a Model for Governance There is an intriguing proposition which, at first blush, might appear whimsical but which, upon closer examination, possesses considerable analytical force: a country could learn
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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake chaired a meeting recently for a discussion on strengthening preparedness and response to El Nino conditions. Many relevant government ministers and government officials participated in this discussion. This
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The Taliban returned to power nearly five years ago with grand promises of stability, but their ruling apparatus has instead pushed Afghanistan into a cycle of self-inflicted economic ruin and social regression.
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A trade deal without the people’s voice; an agreement beyond parliamentary scrutiny, democratic accountability, and national debate—raising profound questions about sovereignty, legitimacy, and consent. Trade agreements are not merely commercial instruments. When
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In Karur, near the southern tip of India, the rise of artificial intelligence is visible not only in technology but in the hundreds of young people who fill the city’s streets during breaks from work. Men and women in their 20s move between offices
The company says it has temporarily paused some advanced reinforcement-learning training as
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Several years ago, psychiatrist Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell began noticing a striking change among teenage girls and young women arriving for their first psychiatric sessions. Instead of waiting anxiously to hear whether a professional believed something was wrong with them, many arrived
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by Eric Chris A. Rutkowski’s Canada’s UFO Secrets: Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our Skies is most interesting when it stops behaving like a UFO book. Its real subject
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by Durga Mahvash Sabet’s Open Wide the Doors: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Freedom in Iran is ostensibly a prison memoir, but its real subject is larger and more dangerous: what
by Luxman Laura K. Field’s Furious Minds is an ambitious and often unsettling attempt to explain not merely what the MAGA New Right believes, but how a movement once dismissed as a
