Friedrich Merz is facing renewed pressure within Germany’s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) after a series of poor regional election results, with senior figures in the party calling for changes to its
India has identified 50 public-private partnership (PPP) projects worth more than $7.2 billion, surpassing the original targets of the National Monetisation Pipeline, Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said at the
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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is set to meet former U.S. president Donald Trump on Monday for his first face-to-face summit in Washington, in talks that could reshape America’s decades-long role
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Advanced economies will struggle to maintain growth and keep inflation under control in the coming decades without a greater influx of foreign workers, central bankers have warned, according to reporting by the
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is preparing sweeping reforms to the asylum appeals process in a bid to speed up deportations, reduce Britain’s reliance on migrant hotels, and head off mounting public
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In the summer of 1971, British intelligence was still reeling from years of humiliation at the hands of Soviet spies when an unlikely figure appeared in a north London police station: Oleg
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A Colombian National Police (CNP) UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was destroyed by a drone on Thursday, killing at least 12 personnel on board. The deadly incident, reported by TWZ, marks the first
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U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has accused entrenched “deep state” actors within America’s intelligence agencies of politicizing their work and working against the interests of the American people. Speaking to
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The European Union has provided Ukraine with €9 billion ($10.5 billion) in loans this year, financed by profits generated from frozen Russian central bank assets, according to data released by the European
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Senior journalist S. Venkat Narayan, President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia (FCC), has described the arrest of former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe as “ridiculous” and emphasized that it
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Senior political party leaders in Sri Lanka are engaged in discussions on how to bring former President Ranil Wickremesinghe back into Parliament earlier than expected, even as
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A number of Sri Lanka’s former presidents and senior opposition leaders are set to hold a special press conference in Colombo tomorrow in support of Ranil Wickremesinghe,
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Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been admitted to the Colombo National Hospital due to health complications, hospital officials confirmed today. Dr. Pradeep Wijesinghe, Acting Director of the National Hospital, stated that initial
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Egypt has granted permanent residency to several senior figures from Palestinian factions who were forced to leave Syria following the takeover of Damascus by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) last year. Among those
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by Durga Velayudham “We stand for organised terror—this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution.” Lenin’s words, coldly rational yet disturbingly candid, encapsulate a recurring paradox
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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dismissed the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, after the agency’s initial analysis of recent U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
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