Nearly three decades after Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a Paris car crash while being pursued by paparazzi, her brother Charles Spencer has reopened some of the most contentious arguments surrounding
Sam Altman’s controversial digital identity startup “World,” formerly known as Worldcoin, has officially launched in the United States, bringing its iris-scanning orbs and associated cryptocurrency tokens to American users for the first
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India is facing mounting domestic and international scrutiny after a deadly terrorist attack in Kashmir last week left at least 26 people dead — most of them Indian tourists — in a
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India has approved the inclusion of caste data in the upcoming national population census, a move that brings the long-delayed exercise closer to fruition. The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, led by
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Imagine you are a low-income country. You suffer from a heavy debt burden. You’ve been trying to catch up to the more affluent countries for decades, but you’ve been unsuccessful, mainly because
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France has accused Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, of conducting a covert “silent war” against the nation for nearly a decade, with a series of cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, and attempts to
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Argentina has officially released hundreds of previously hard-to-access documents confirming its long-suspected role in sheltering senior Nazi war criminals after the Second World War, fulfilling a campaign promise made by President Javier
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Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the Italian cleric who was convicted for his involvement in the Vatican financial scandal, has bowed out of the upcoming conclave to elect a new pope after reportedly receiving
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Sri Lanka and Pakistan reaffirmed their commitment to regional security and strategic cooperation as the 5th Sri Lanka-Pakistan Bilateral Defence Dialogue officially commenced in Islamabad on April 28. The high-level dialogue marks
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Let it be written in the annals of tropical theatre: while Sri Lanka’s political gladiators were lobbing coconuts in a coliseum of conspiracy, Ambassador Julie Chung sat calmly at the edge of
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Global military expenditure skyrocketed to $2.718 trillion in 2024, marking the sharpest annual increase since the end of the Cold War. The 9.4% jump from 2023 is not only the largest year-on-year
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Everyone is expecting news on a Ukrainian settlement this week. The diplomatic activity is real and intense, and the visible signs suggest something significant is underway. There is little point in trying
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In an era marked by pressing global challenges, the iconic adage “With great power comes great responsibility” from the Spider – Man films encapsulates the world’s expectations of major countries, notably the
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Europe’s justice systems are in crisis, facing chronic underfunding that is leading to crumbling infrastructure, growing case backlogs, and eroding trust in the rule of law, senior lawyers warn. In countries across
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Members of the Laotian diaspora in the United States, many of whom arrived as refugees after surviving a CIA-led “secret war,” are now facing a fresh crisis—detention and deportation with little warning,
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China has officially become the world’s largest nuclear power nation in terms of overall scale, according to the China Nuclear Energy Development Report 2025, released Sunday by the China Nuclear Energy Association
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