Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
A newly published historical file has revealed fresh details about one of the Cold War’s most audacious espionage operations, showing how Britain and the United States secretly constructed a tunnel beneath Berlin
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A growing wave of historical revisionism in Russia is raising alarm among historians and human rights advocates, as the government under Vladimir Putin intensifies efforts to reshape public understanding of Soviet-era repression.
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A new wave of maritime hijackings in waters off Somalia and Yemen is reviving fears of a return to large-scale piracy in the Horn of Africa, a region that once symbolised one
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As Donald Trump prepares for a closely watched visit to Beijing, public reactions across China reveal a strikingly divided perception of the former US president and the broader relationship between the world’s
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A series of disturbing incidents involving Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon has sparked renewed international concern over conduct in occupied villages, particularly those with historic Christian communities. Reporting drawn from El País
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Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) leader Chandrasekar Joseph Vijay has achieved his chief ministerial dream in Tamil Nadu, with the help of some other parties, including the Congress. His meteoric rise to power
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On May 7, 2026, Leilma, an Ismaili woman and wife of Salam Maftoon, a local singer, was killed at the Ishkashim Bazaar in the Ishkashim District of Badakhshan Province. The attacker used
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There is an inimitable French expression — ‘ennui’. I first came across it while reading Jean-Paul Sartre as a university student in Thiruvananthapuram in the mid-sixties. It roughly translates as a feeling
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The brief but intense India–Pakistan confrontation of May 2025 will likely be remembered not only for military exchanges or cross-border strikes, but for something equally significant: the contest over narrative, credibility and
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In the refined idiom of jurisprudence! The term “shall” wields commanding authority of the highest order, elevating a mere expression into an obligatory mandate. More clearly, in legal parlance, the word “shall”
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