Editorial As voting entered its most consequential moment, Donald Trump may have recognised the political damage awaiting his party. On Election Day, he announced that the United States would end its annual
Editorial As voting entered its most consequential moment, Donald Trump may have recognised the political damage awaiting his party. On Election Day, he announced that the United States would end its annual
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The absence of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum from the 30th Ibero-American Summit in Madrid has dealt a setback to Spain’s diplomatic efforts to restore
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Algeria has deployed military personnel to Niger for the first time in more than five decades, marking a significant departure from its longstanding policy of non-intervention and signalling a growing determination to
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Germany is reconsidering one of the fundamental principles governing its sexual criminal law: what constitutes consent. A proposed reform of Section 177 of the German Criminal Code would shift the legal focus
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival following Israel’s latest parliamentary election has left the country facing an uncertain government formation process, with significant implications for regional security, the war in Gaza and the possibility
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As Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in recent months, the deployment of fiber-optic drones has proven devastatingly effective. The drones use hair-thin cables to maintain direct connections with
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Western democracy is losing public confidence as voters increasingly doubt whether political institutions can deliver economic security, meaningful representation and responsive government, according to a recent editorial published by China’s Global Times.
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Pakistan’s four-province structure has not evolved since independence. The rationale behind administrative units is to deliver fair and timely services and to ensure political participation by every citizen. The huge population, according
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Sudan’s war is usually described as an African catastrophe, Yemen’s as an Arabian conflict, and the war around Iran as a Gulf crisis. Such divisions obscure the movement of weapons, money, soldiers,
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The 2026 midterm elections have been the most expensive in history, with more than $11 billion being spent on political ads. While Democratic candidates have outraised Republicans in individual donations by appealing
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In lecturing about the state of liberal democracy over the past couple of years, I have been frequently asked whether the authoritarian tide taking place around the world can be stopped, and
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On October 27, 2026, a combined team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)/Imphal East and the 28 Assam Rifles (AR) arrested an active cadre of the Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF)/People’s Liberation Army
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When delegates left Moscow on 5 October, they had little to show for the day. The eighth round of the Moscow Format consultations on Afghanistan ended without a joint statement. According to
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India’s military modernization drive faces an uncomfortable contradiction. New Delhi continues authorizing billions of dollars in new weapons procurement while its aerospace industry struggles to deliver aircraft ordered years earlier. The problem
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Ecuadorian leftist leader Luisa González recently warned that there is “a whole sinister network involving Marco Rubio, MAGA, and Latin American presidents who are destroying our countries to turn Latin America into
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