Tucked into a Sept. 10, 1998, intelligence report sent to President Bill Clinton’s White House was a warning that, more than a quarter-century later, reads with striking prescience. A CIA analyst wrote
Serbia’s arms exports to Israel surged by 140 percent in 2025, reaching a record 114 million euros ($131.1 million), according to official data from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia.
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On March 16, the Taliban Government of Afghanistan accused the Pakistani military of conducting an airstrike that killed more than 400 people and injured 250 [the UN later revises the death toll
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Organized crime in the United Kingdom is entering a new technological frontier as drug gangs chemically alter cocaine and attach it to everyday materials, creating a smuggling method that experts say is
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In 2004, Smartmatic reached a turning point. The company had just successfully administered a referendum for Hugo Chávez — a move that demonstrated its willingness to operate in the interests of the
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From the rooftops of Vienna, amid baroque facades and imperial relics, a quieter and far more consequential activity is under way. Satellite dishes mounted atop Russian diplomatic buildings are not merely tools
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Meghalaya has remained one of the relatively stable states in India’s Northeast in terms of insurgency and internal security, particularly when compared with neighbouring states such as Manipur, Nagaland and Assam. Over
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For more than a decade, West Germany allegedly transferred enormous sums to Israel to fund its nuclear program, a secret uncovered in investigations reported by Haaretz. Between 1961 and 1973, Bonn provided
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Between 1956 and 1963, Britain, with the approval of the Australian government, detonated seven atomic bombs in the remote Maralinga desert of South Australia. While often described as a barren testing ground,
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In the aftermath of World War II, Japan underwent one of the most sweeping political transformations in modern history. As the occupying power, the United States dismantled the Imperial Japanese Army, eliminated
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When Xi Jinping secured an unprecedented third five-year term as China’s leader in late 2022, he issued stark warnings to senior officials about the “stormy seas” and “worst-case scenarios” that could confront
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