Europe risks becoming dangerously dependent on foreign AI, threatening its economic independence, security and geopolitical influence. The warning is that decisions made now could determine whether Europe helps shape the future of
Iran International reported on August 31 that its sources had provided information about three alleged recruits and an operation being developed by Unit 4000, the Special Operations Division of the Islamic Revolutionary
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For decades, the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) has appeared to defy the logic of conventional public finance. Its revenues remain far below its expenditure, while Beijing continues to channel enormous sums into
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Argentine President Javier Milei has announced plans to establish a military base as Buenos Aires takes a tougher position in its longstanding dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands. Milei also threatened
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In Burkina Faso, even a photograph of a person receiving a sack of rice is becoming a matter of state regulation. This summer, the Council of Ministers approved a decree that prohibits
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For Giorgia Meloni, staying in power has become an achievement in itself. On Friday, the Italian prime minister will celebrate a political record that would be unremarkable in many countries but carries
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France’s far right entered the 2027 presidential race with a carefully balanced partnership. Now ideological differences, personal tensions and competing ambitions are exposing its fault lines. The formula was supposed to be
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by Nil Twenty-five years after the planes struck New York and Washington, the most unsettling argument in 25 Years After 9/11: The Future of the Global Jihadi Movement is not that al-Qaeda
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Small Wars Journal and is republished here with the permission of the authors. The struggle against terrorism has never been merely a contest of
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For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty survived what diplomacy between India and Pakistan often could not: wars, military crises, diplomatic breakdowns and prolonged hostility. On August 31, that resilience
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Sonia Gandhi is set to publish a deeply personal memoir examining the extraordinary journey that took her from a small village in Italy to becoming one of the most prominent political figures
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September 1 marks the anniversary of the death of Syed Ali Shah Geelani (1929–2021), a prominent figure in the Kashmiri movement advocating for legitimate self-determination. Geelani began his political journey with Jamaat-e-Islami
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As reported on September 2, 2026, the Afghanistan United Front (AUF) killed a Taliban official, Qari Aghagol, from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, in the 18th
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For forty years, the countries of the Global South were told that economic planning was an error. The state was to retreat, tariffs were to fall, public firms were to be privatised,
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U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Chairman Laura DiBella and FMC Commissioner Robert J. Harvey will visit Sri Lanka from September 6–10, in a move aimed at advancing U.S.-Sri Lanka cooperation on maritime
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The month of August lived up to the caption of “the living, dead and disappeared.” The month saw the end of the 10-day Kandy Esala Perahera festival in all its glory. The
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