Pope Leo XIV left Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Saturday, four days after undergoing surgery to remove a malignant lung tumour, returning to the Vatican three days earlier than initially expected. The pontiff
Editorial The World Inequality Report 2026 does not merely describe a malfunctioning global economy; it indicts it. What emerges from its data is not an unfortunate imbalance or a temporary distortion, but
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor The dissolution of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party marks not just the end of a political organisation, but the symbolic death of institutionalised democracy in the city. After
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor The publication of China’s Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation in the New Era in the last week of November is less a routine policy disclosure than a
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China is now leading research in nearly 90% of the world’s most crucial technologies, marking a sharp shift in global scientific dominance this century, according to an analysis cited by Nature. The
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Washington brands Nicolás Maduro a dictator, celebrates Volodymyr Zelenskyy as democratic, and sponsors María Corina Machado to achieve regime change in Venezuela rather than promote genuine democracy. Within the narrow spectrum of
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Is Asia possible? This provocation comes from a recent intervention by Tricontinental Asia, the latest in a series of conjunctural analyses on the Asian continent. There is increasing acknowledgement that the world economy’s centre
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The year 2025 witnessed escalated threats from the United States on the Global South. In the span of months, Washington declared Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety,” threatened to invade Nigeria “guns-a-blazing” to protect Christians from
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Europe must prepare for large-scale conflict as Russia emerges as a direct threat, Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte warned, Times UK reported. Speaking on Thursday, Rutte said “conflict is at our door”
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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is apparently determined to have one of his loyalists appointed Auditor General though the Constitutional Council (CC) has prevented him from doing so. The government is apparently playing
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On February 26, 1852, the HMS Birkenhead struck a cluster of rocks off the coast of South Africa. With only a few lifeboats for the 638 people aboard, Captain Robert Salmond ordered the women
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The long American century is over. Across the world, affiliations and institutions staked in blood and soil, faith-based (as opposed to empirically based) ways of knowing, and personalized, autocratic power are all
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Chhattisgarh’s 25th anniversary was framed by the Union government as a triumphant milestone: naxalism reduced to a shadow of its former presence, security forces in command, and development ready to surge. Prime
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American military assistance has become the backbone of Israel’s modern war machine, even as political pressure in Washington grows to scale back the decades-long subsidy. The current 10-year aid agreement, worth $38
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has become a frequent and discreet visitor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office throughout the Gaza war, with Haaretz reporting that the two held their most
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Germany has rejected proposals to create a new multilateral defence bank, dealing a major setback to efforts aimed at establishing a global state-backed lender to accelerate European and NATO rearmament. The country’s
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