Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruling clearing the 22nd Amendment to proceed without a referendum has done more than settle a constitutional question. It has opened a deeper debate over the balance of
Wall Street’s largest banks are preparing to report combined trading revenues exceeding $40 billion for the first quarter, as escalating geopolitical tensions and market volatility drive a sharp rise in activity. According
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by Luxman Peter Magyar has emerged as the most significant challenger to Hungary’s long-entrenched political order in more than a decade, positioning himself as the man capable of ending Viktor Orban’s 16-year
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Early results from Hungary’s 2026 parliamentary elections indicate a major political upheaval, with the opposition Tisza Party emerging as the dominant force in the National Assembly. According to preliminary figures released by
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi In a move that is already reverberating across the strategic landscape of the Indian Ocean, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) has formally acquired a controlling 51
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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch speaks with a clarity that resists time. Her voice, described in Observer UK accounts of her life and testimony, is forthright, steady, and entirely free of self-pity. It is not
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Slavoj Žižek dreams in patterns of confusion, delay, and bureaucratic frustration. In one recurring sequence, he is attempting to meet a friend, but nothing aligns correctly. Addresses are wrong, communication fails, and
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The confession is raw, uncomfortable, and increasingly familiar across modern society: six to seven hours a day lost to a glowing screen, not through choice, but through compulsion. The voice behind this
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A fresh global shock is rippling across some of the world’s most vulnerable economies, threatening to undo years of fragile recovery and pushing millions closer to financial hardship. As reported by Reuters,
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by Our Correspondent in Islamabad High-stakes negotiations between Iran and the United States in Islamabad have ended in a dramatic breakdown, with no agreement reached after extended discussions. The talks, which were
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Jonathan Daly’s The Man Who Knew Russia, through its sustained intellectual portrait of Richard Pipes, is best read not as a neutral scholarly biography but as a forceful argument about Russia’s historical
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by Durga Changpeng Zhao’s Freedom of Money is an unusually self-reflexive work for a figure so deeply entangled in the infrastructural power struggles of contemporary finance. It is at once memoir, apologia,
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The first phase of Pakistan-mediated ceasefire negotiations between the United States and Iran has concluded in Islamabad, marking a cautious step forward in efforts to halt a conflict that has unsettled the
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Nearly 800 email and password combinations tied to Hungarian government employees have been exposed online, raising serious concerns about national cybersecurity and the safeguarding of sensitive state information. The revelations, uncovered through
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Kim Jong Un held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Pyongyang on April 10, marking a notable moment in ongoing diplomatic engagement between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and
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Nine months after Donald Trump declared Iran’s nuclear program “obliterated,” the fragile balance between Washington and Tehran is once again nearing a breaking point. Following last year’s 12-day conflict between Israel and
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