The European Union has so far failed to secure agreement on extending its sanctions against Russia, with a dispute over two Russian billionaires preventing the 27 member states from completing the required
CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Caracas this week for a rare in-person meeting with Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, marking the highest-level U.S. contact with Venezuelan authorities since American forces captured
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Saudi Arabia has taken a bold step to reshape regional security dynamics by forging a new Red Sea security bloc with Egypt and Somalia, leaving the United Arab Emirates on the sidelines.
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Ai Weiwei, the 68-year-old Chinese dissident and globally renowned artist, has long been synonymous with defiance against the Chinese state. Yet in a recent interview with The Times UK, Ai offered a
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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has thrown her support behind U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, warning that eroding central bank independence risks economic stability at home and abroad. Speaking
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China is placing population policy at the heart of its economic strategy as it prepares to report a fourth consecutive annual population decline, with official data due on January 19 expected to
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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Thursday that she had presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to U.S. President Donald Trump, an emotional gesture aimed at winning over an American
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In a 2009 interview with Voice of America’s Ukrainian Service, conducted by Myroslava Gongadze, Zbigniew Brzezinski ( 1928-2017) offered a penetrating assessment of United States policy towards Eastern Europe and Ukraine at
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The fact that a new defence cooperation agreement was signed between Morocco and Pakistan, during a high-level visit to Rabat, is not just another milestone in diplomacy. It indicates a rationalised convergence
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President Donald Trump has intensified his unprecedented bid to acquire Greenland, calling on NATO to support the United States’ ambitions and threatening the territory’s leadership over their refusal to cede control. Speaking
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A growing struggle over the world’s underwater fiberoptic cable networks is emerging as a new front in great-power rivalry, raising fears that the internet itself could be divided into competing geopolitical blocs.
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Financial markets were rattled on Monday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell revealed that the central bank had received grand jury subpoenas and was facing the threat of criminal indictment by the
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has turned to the symbolism of ancient tyrants to publicly mock Donald Trump, portraying the former US president as a ruler doomed to collapse under the
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A sleek Abyssinian from Russia has taken top honors at the World Cat Federation’s 2025 championship, earning international recognition in one of the most competitive feline showcases in the world. Darlen Fleur
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Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s fixer, has entered the Iran mess and is now talking to Iran’s leaders. This is a very bad sign for the Iranian revolution, because Witkoff’s approach is to
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Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney departs for Beijing on Tuesday for high-stakes talks on trade and international security, marking a rare diplomatic engagement at a moment of mounting uncertainty in Ottawa’s relationship
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