Saudi Arabia is confronting a worsening security crisis after Houthi forces seized key positions along Yemen’s Red Sea coast and resumed missile and drone attacks against Saudi infrastructure, while the network of
Global arms transfers reached their highest growth rate since 2011–15, largely driven by soaring demand in Europe. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Europe accounted for 33 percent of
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Iran has been under sustained military pressure from the United States and Israel for almost a week, raising fears of a direct strike. Professor K.T. Ganeshalingam, Head of the Department of Political
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The Iranian naval vessel IRIS Booshehr remained near Colombo yesterday after the process of transferring the ship to the Trincomalee Naval Base had not begun as planned, according to senior naval officials.
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A global shortage of memory chips fueled by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence is driving up the cost of electronics worldwide, according to an analysis by Bloomberg. The demand for chips
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Commercial vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed to an almost complete standstill for a seventh consecutive day, with only ships linked to Iran making crossings in the past 24
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Women are rapidly transforming the investor base in India, with nearly one in four individual stock market participants now female, according to the latest data from the National Stock Exchange of India.
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Iran’s clerical establishment has formally appointed Mojtaba Khamenei as the new Supreme Leader of Iran following the reported death of his father, Ali Khamenei. The decision was announced by the powerful Assembly
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Chilean President Gabriel Boric bid farewell to supporters on Saturday, just four days before the official end of his term on March 11, addressing a crowd of more than 4,000 in Plaza
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A thick blanket of black smoke hung over Tehran as explosions from recent airstrikes ignited oil storage facilities, raising alarms about toxic fallout and the possibility of acid rain in the Iranian
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In 2016, a rare photograph captured a moment of exceptional diplomatic intimacy: President Xi Jinping of China, the paramount leader of the world’s most populous and officially atheist nation, stood beaming alongside
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A storm is brewing behind the gilded façade of Monaco’s royal palace, where accusations of betrayal, secret dossiers and a dramatic fallout between Prince Albert II and some of his closest confidants
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by Nil Tom Wells’s The Kissinger Tapes arrives with the aura of a historical revelation, yet its deeper significance lies less in the novelty of the documents than in the unsettling portrait
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by Durga In recent years, the global market for spiritual self-improvement literature has been crowded with books promising resilience, clarity and self-mastery. Into this crowded field enters Shi Heng Yi’s Shaolin Spirit:
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by Luxman Lixing Sun’s On the Origin of Sex sets itself an ambitious task: to explain one of evolutionary biology’s most persistent puzzles – why sexual reproduction exists at all. The question
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by Durga Velayudham Adam Smith was not who the world thinks he was. The man whose name is synonymous with free-market capitalism — the “invisible hand” evangelist invoked by CEOs, politicians, and
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