1. Manic “Change Round” In Sigmund Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” the melancholic is in want of an object, never knowing exactly what they may have lost. Melancholy transforms the object-loss of mourning into
In an era where geopolitics increasingly shapes domestic politics, Bangladesh now finds itself navigating one of the most consequential periods in its modern history. Bangladesh did not give birth to the Awami
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The relative calm that had prevailed in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) through the early months of 2026 was disrupted on the evening of July 31, 2026, when terrorists opened fire on two
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On 14 July, at a summit in Orlando, the head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Terrance Cole, declared that Mexico’s cartels and Mexico’s government are ‘one and the same.’ He offered no evidence.
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On July 29, 2026, the US District Court for the Western District of New York (Buffalo, New York), convicted an American national, Hadi Matar, of Lebanese descent on charges of federal terrorism
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On July 29, 2026, the last known active Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) ‘Politburo’ member, Misir Besra aka Sunirmal aka Sagar Da aka Bhaskar Da (65), carrying a cumulative reward of over INR 22 million, was arrested along
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As we move toward the end of the Trump era, we need to reckon with the changes his administration has wrought in the American system of government. The most significant is the
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Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) laid out what it described as one of the most extensive counterterrorism campaigns in the country’s recent history at a press conference held in Rawalpindi on July
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A senior Israeli official, likely Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recently briefed the Israeli press delegation who traveled to Washington in support of Netanyahu’s White House visit, regarding plans for Israel to build a domestic stealth fighter plane and an
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President Daniel Noboa governs Ecuador with increasingly authoritarian methods. Elected in 2023 and reelected in 2025, he has concentrated power in the executive branch, clashed with the Constitutional Court, abused states of emergency,
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Pakistan is once again facing the formidable challenge of the annual monsoon season. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), 109 people have lost their lives and hundreds more have been
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