The offer was blunt: $25,000 to track and kill a person in the Lithuanian capital who, according to U.S. prosecutors, was “telling lies about Russia”. The alleged approach came last year from
NATO cannot afford to be “naive” about China’s military development as security challenges in the Indo-Pacific and Europe become increasingly interconnected, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said ahead of the alliance’s summit
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As Bangladesh began to show its first signals of hard geopolitical steering, drifting away from India and embracing China, that too strategically, India must ensure that its tactical footprint and core interests
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As Pakistan seeks a larger diplomatic role amid renewed geopolitical attention, its gravest challenges remain within its own borders. The conflict in West Asia, renewed American engagement, Saudi financial support, and strategic
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This is the second and final part of this interview, the first part of which was published in yesterday’s edition. Seventeen years after the military defeat of the LTTE, Frerks sees Sri
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The resurgence of armed confrontations between the Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) signals the re-emergence of one of Manipur’s most enduring intra-Naga rivalries. Although both
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On March 27, 2026, President Ram Chandra Paudel appointed Balendra ‘Balen’ Shah Prime Minister following the Rastriya Swatantra Party’s (RSP) decisive victory in the March 5, 2026, parliamentary elections. On the same
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On June 29, 2026, eight people were injured in a clash between leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and its student’s body Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS),
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White liberals have been working for many decades teaching that all white ethnics are racists. They have been as successful in teaching white people to see themselves as racists as they have been
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Diplomacy is often communicated as much through absence as through presence. State funerals are among the few occasions where protocol itself becomes a form of political signaling. The rank of the representative
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When one has witnessed not only a colour revolution in her own country (Macedonia, 2015–2016) but also sensed its arrival during Ukraine’s Euromaidan in 2014, every new outburst of supposedly spontaneous revolt provokes scepticism.
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Millions of people are thronging through the streets of Tehran this week as the state funeral for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei takes place; Khamenei ruled Iran for three decades and
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visits to Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand are best understood not as three separate bilateral engagements but as a carefully sequenced strategic mission across the Indo-Pacific. Coming immediately
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In the early weeks of war, one of the Persian Gulf’s most critical maritime arteries quietly became the stage for an extraordinary experiment in modern energy logistics. Just weeks into the conflict,
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What happens when a country wins a war but fails to resolve the reasons that produced the war in the first place? Can a military victory over an armed movement create lasting
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is employing autocratic governance tactics that analysts and historians say echo those used by Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal,
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