The Taliban’s suspension of BBC World Service FM broadcasts highlights mounting pressure on independent journalism in Afghanistan. Against a documented record of arrests, intimidation and censorship targeting media workers, the move threatens
Iran and the United States are both under significant economic pressure and have expressed a willingness to de-escalate. Yet neither side has shown signs of softening its core demands. Instead, developments stretching
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Last year, in 2025, 354 civilians were killed in terrorist attacks across Pakistan, while overall terrorist violence rose by about a third. In Balochistan alone, terrorists carried out 254 attacks. In March
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North Korea is sending increasing numbers of workers to Russia’s premier drone factory located at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone. Alabuga is located in the Yelabuzhsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan,
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A UN report has documented 1,004 cases of sexual violence in Ukraine between February 2022 and July 2026, with 89 per cent attributed to Russian Federation authorities and 11 per cent to
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For Yuli Novak, the crisis facing Israel and the Palestinians cannot be reduced to one government, one prime minister or even the events of the past few years. The director of the
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Paul B. Preciado has spent much of his intellectual life questioning the boundaries that separate male from female, normal from pathological and accepted identities from those placed outside the social norm. Now
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The question now is what the EU intends to do with the opening Carney has created. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had offered Canada an “assoziierte Mitgliedschaft” — an “associated
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For more than seven months, the military confrontation between the United States and Iran has transformed parts of the Middle East into a zone of heightened geopolitical tension. Yet the consequences have
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The Palk Strait has long been a source of tension between Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu, but the growing drug threat offers an opportunity to build practical cooperation. By sharing intelligence, strengthening
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The Pinglu Canal is more than a shortcut to the sea. By cutting over 560 kilometres from inland shipping routes, it could lower transport costs, strengthen China–ASEAN trade, support cross-border manufacturing and
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Thirty-four new U.S. Peace Corps Trainee Volunteers have arrived in Sri Lanka this week, beginning preparations for two years of service focused on American English-language education in Sri Lankan communities. The new
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The 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on September 12–13, occurred amid an exceptional intensification of international contradictions. Wars in West Asia, unilateral sanctions, tariff barriers, and the weaponisation of finance and
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The emerging maritime partnership between Pakistan’s Gwadar Port and Oman’s Sohar Port deserves attention far beyond the language of bilateral diplomacy. Pakistan and Oman are discussing an arrangement that would designate Gwadar
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The war between Iran and a US-Israeli-led coalition, which began on 28 February 2026 with strikes on Iranian military and nuclear facilities and the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
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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
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